Findings from our Current Research: Our interdisciplinary group, comprised of researchers from anthropology, history, pediatrics, psychology, and sociology, has collected quantitative and interview data on 74 adolescent children presenting between 2003 and 2006 to the Pediatric Pain, Pediatric Gastroenterology, and Pediatric Neurology Clinics with recurrent or persistent pain. We have completed preliminary analysis of the qualitative data for a subset of 37 (28 girls and 9 boys, average age 13.97) for whom intake and six-month follow-up data was obtained. These children reported suffering pain for periods ranging from one month to "all my life": the average computed duration was 53.6 months, or about 4.5 years. All of them had seen at least one physician prior to referral to UCLA and the majority had seen three or more.