Sociodemographic predictors of attendance at a Scottish pain management programme.

ABSTRACT: We examined relationships between various sociodemographic factors and attendance at the Glasgow Pain Management Programme (n = 2899 from 2011 to 2019). We tested for associations between gender, age and socioeconomic deprivation of patients who were invited to attend, and uptake to a programme when invited, attendance at screening assessment, eligibility, adherence and attendance at 3- and 6-month reviews. Uptake was significantly higher for patients from more affluent areas (95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.93-0.99, p = 0.002) and for older patients (95% CI = 0.98-0.99, p = 0.006), although effect sizes were very small. Patients were significantly more likely to be assessed as suitable if they were younger (95% CI = 0.98-0.99, p = 0.013) or female (95% CI = 0.55-0.84, p < 0.001). Attenda

SUBMITTER: Moore FR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8611294 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature