Pain Patients and Who they Live with: A Correlational Study of Coresidence Patterns and Pain Interference
Autor: | Kevin E. Vowles, Joe Alcock, Patricia Pendleton, Jacob M. Vigil, Patrick Coulombe, Bruce W. Smith |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Activities of daily living Databases Factual Pain Interference Pain Medicare Social support Young Adult Sex Factors Surveys and Questionnaires Activities of Daily Living medicine Humans Pain Management Young adult Retrospective Studies Aged 80 and over lcsh:R5-920 Medicaid Age Factors Social Support Retrospective cohort study Middle Aged United States Self Care Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Neurology Correlational study Physical therapy Housing Pain psychology Pain catastrophizing Female Original Article Psychology lcsh:Medicine (General) |
Zdroj: | Pain Research and Management, Vol 19, Iss 4, Pp e109-e114 (2014) |
ISSN: | 1203-6765 |
Popis: | BACKGROUND: Mixed associations have been observed between various aspects of ‘social support’ and patient pain experiencesOBJECTIVE: To explore the possibility that more basic social factors, namely coresidence patterns, may be associated with variability in patient pain experiences.METHODS: Relationships between coresidence partners and self-reported pain that interferes with activities were examined in a large representative sample of home health care patients (n=11,436; age range 18 to 107 years, mean [± SD] age 66.3±16.1 years; 55% females).RESULTS: After controlling for sex, age and behavioural risks, compared with living alone, coresidence with an intimate affiliate (eg, spouse, relative) predicted greater pain interference (Cohen’s d = 0.10 to 1.72), and coresidence with a less intimate type of affiliate (eg, friend, paid help) predicted lower pain interference (Cohen’s d = −0.21 tö0.83). In general, however, coresidence patterns accounted for small proportions of variance in pain interference, and the magnitudes of these effects varied widely according to patients’ sex, age and diagnosis.DISCUSSION: The findings suggest that fundamental components of patient’s home-living environment may be associated with potential costs and benefits related to clinically relevant pain functioning for some subgroups of patients.CONCLUSION: Further research that incorporates quantitative and qualitative assessments of patient pain functioning is warranted to better understand how objective and subjective characteristics of patients’ home-living environment may inform the development of more individualized pain treatment options for patients with differing social circumstances. |
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