Heterogeneity in the association between weather and pain severity among patients with chronic pain: a Bayesian multilevel regression analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Previous studies on the association between weather and pain severity among patients with chronic pain have produced mixed results. In part, this inconsistency may be due to differences in individual pain responses to the weather.

Methods

To test the hypothesis that there might be subgroups of participants with different pain responses to different weather conditions, we examined data from a longitudinal smartphone-based study, Cloudy with a Chance of Pain, conducted between January 2016 and April 2017. The study recruited more than 13,000 participants and recorded daily pain severity on a 5-point scale (range: no pain to very severe pain) along with hourly local weather data for up to 15 months. We used a Bayesian multilevel model to examine the weather-pain as

SUBMITTER: Yimer BB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8759613 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature