Association between clusters of back and joint pain with opioid use in middle-aged community-based women: a prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To determine the relationship between clusters of back pain and joint pain and prescription opioid dispensing.

Methods

Of 11,221 middle-aged participants from the Australian Longitudinal Study of Women's Health, clusters of back pain and joint pain from 2001 to 2013 were identified using group-based trajectory modelling. Prescription opioid dispensing from 2003 to 2015 was identified by linking the cohort to Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme dispensing data. Multinomial logistic regression was used to examine the association between back pain and joint pain clusters and dispensing of prescription opioids. The proportion of opioids dispensed in the population attributable to back and join pain was calculated.

Results

Over 12 years, 68.5 and 72.0% women reported

SUBMITTER: Hussain SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8502269 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature