Multisite musculoskeletal pain in migrants from the Indian subcontinent to the UK: a cross-sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent findings indicate that wide international variation in the prevalence of disabling regional musculoskeletal pain among working populations is driven by unidentified factors predisposing to pain at multiple anatomical sites. As a step towards identification of those factors, it would be helpful to know whether the prevalence of multisite pain changes when people migrate between countries with differing rates of symptoms; and if so, whether the change is apparent in first generation migrants, and by what age it becomes manifest.

Methods

To address these questions, we analysed data from an earlier interview-based cross-sectional survey, which assessed the prevalence of musculoskeletal pain and risk factors in six groups of workers distinguished by the nature o

SUBMITTER: Rizzello E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6440109 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature