Documenting Race and Gender Biases in Pain Assessment and a Novel Intervention Designed to Reduce Biases.

ABSTRACT: Disparities in pain care are well-documented such that women and people of color have their pain undertreated and underestimated compared to men and White people. One of the contributors of the undertreatment of pain for people of color and women may be the inaccurate assessment of pain. Understanding the pain assessment process is an important step in evaluating the magnitude of and intervening on pain disparities in care. In the current work, we focus on documenting intersectional race and gender biases in pain assessment and present the results of a novel intervention for reducing these biases. Across 3 studies (N = 532) and a mini meta-analysis using real videotaped people in pain as stimuli, we demonstrate that observers disproportionately underestimated women of color's pain compared

SUBMITTER: Ruben MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11793930 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature