“…Pain intensity. Data from 19 studies (published in 18 separate articles) were entered into the meta-analysis, which compared self-reported pain intensityduring the cold pressor taskin a total of 628 girls and 633 boys [16,26,39,40,54,75,76,78,82,84,85,93,94,96,99,105,106,109].Pain intensity was measured using a variety of self-report tools, including the Faces Pain Scale The meta-analysis was repeated to separately examine studies for which the mean age of participants was greater/equal to or less than 12 years of age. For studies with a mean age of less than 12 years, data from 12 studies were entered into the meta-analysis, with a total of 302 girls and 303 boys [16,26,39,54,75,76,82,84,85,93,96,99].…”