Resilience does matter: evidence from a 10-year cohort record linkage study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine 10-year mortality and hospital use among individuals categorised as resilient and vulnerable to the impact of chronic pain.

Design

A cohort record linkage study.

Setting

Grampian, Scotland.

Participants

5858 individuals from the Grampian Pain Cohort, established in 1996, were linked, by probability matching, with national routinely collected datasets.

Main outcome measures

HRs for subsequent 10-year mortality and ORs/incidence rate ratios for subsequent 10-year hospital use, each with adjustment for potential confounding variables.

Results

36.5% of those with high pain intensity reported a low pain-related disability (categorised resilient) and 7.1% of those reporting low pain intensity reported a high pain-related disability

SUBMITTER: Elliott AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3902361 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature