Understanding Pain and Agitation Through System Analysis Algorithms in People With Dementia. A Novel Explorative Approach by the DIGI.PAIN Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many people with dementia (PwD) live and die with undiagnosed and untreated pain and are no longer able to report their suffering. Several pain assessment tools have been developed, tested, and implemented in clinical practice, but nursing home patients are reported to be still in pain. Clinicians and research groups worldwide are seeking novel approaches to encode the prediction, prevalence, and associations to pain in PwD.

Participants

The data in this analysis are acquired from the COSMOS study, a cluster-randomized controlled trial (2014 to 2015), aimed to improve the quality of life in nursing home patients (N = 723) through the implementation of a multicomponent intervention. We utilize baseline data of PwD (N = 219) with complete datasets of p

SUBMITTER: Husebo BS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8970316 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature