Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Disabling Chronic Pain: Findings From the Health and Retirement Study.

ABSTRACT: The U.S. National Pain Strategy calls for increased population research on "high-impact chronic pain" (ie, longstanding pain that substantially limits participation in daily activities). Using data from the nationally-representative Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we investigated the prevalence of high-impact chronic pain in U.S. adults older than age 50 overall and within population subgroups. We also explored sociodemographic variation in pain-related disability within specific activity domains. Data are from a subsample of HRS respondents (n = 1,925) who were randomly selected for a supplementary pain module in 2010. Our outcome was operationalized as pain duration of ≥7 months and a disability rating of ≥7 (0-10 scale) in at least 1 domain: family/home, leisure, social activities, w

SUBMITTER: Janevic MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5682226 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature