The Nature of Trauma Pain and Its Association with Catastrophizing and Sleep.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nearly 2.8 million people are hospitalized in the USA annually for traumatic injuries, which include orthopedic and internal organ injuries. Early post-injury pain is predictive of poor outcomes, including inability to eventually return to work, and long-term psychological distress. The goal of the present study was to improve our scientific understanding of trauma-related pain by examining (1) the nature and frequency of inpatient trauma pain and (2) the associations between inpatient trauma pain, education, opioid analgesic equivalent use, pain catastrophizing, and sleep quality.

Method

The study included 120 patients hospitalized at a major level I regional trauma center for the care of (1) closed long bone or calcaneus fractures and/or (2) an intraabdominal in

SUBMITTER: Accardi-Ravid MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7703726 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature