The Gender Pain Gap: gender inequalities in pain across 19 European countries.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Chronic pain is increasingly considered to be an international public health issue, yet gender differences in chronic pain in Europe are under-examined. This work aimed to examine gender inequalities in pain across Europe.

Methods

Data for 27,552 men and women aged 25-74 years in 19 European countries were taken from the social determinants of health module of the European Social Survey (2014). Inequalities in reporting pain were measured by means of adjusted rate differences (ARD) and relative adjusted rate risks (ARR).

Results

At the pooled pan-European level, a greater proportion of women (62.3%) reported pain than men (55.5%) (ARD 5.5% (95% confidence intervals (CI) 4.1, 6.9), ARR 1.10 (95% CI 1.08, 1.13)). These inequalities were greatest for back/neck pain

SUBMITTER: Bimpong K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8873965 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature