When performing an assessment of a child with recurrent abdominal pain (RAP), the nurse recognizes the child will most likely experience what symptom?

a. Increased temperature
b. Constipation
c. Right quadrant pain
d. Exercise-associated pain


ANS: B
The child may be constipated with periumbilical pain unrelated to eating, defecation, or exercise.

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