Lifetime socioeconomic circumstances and chronic pain in later adulthood: findings from a British birth cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate associations between a range of different indicators of socioeconomic position (SEP: occupational class, education, household overcrowding and tenure, and experience of financial hardship) across life and chronic widespread and regional pain (CWP and CRP) at age 68.

Design

Prospective birth cohort; the Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development.

Setting

England, Scotland and Wales.

Participants

Up to 2378 men and women who have been followed-up since birth in 1946 to age 68.

Primary outcome measures

On the basis of their self-report of pain at age 68, participants were classified as: CWP (American College of Rheumatology criteria), CRP (pain of at least 3 months' duration but that does not meet the defini

SUBMITTER: Jay MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6429846 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature