Physician consultation rates and characteristics among workers with chronic pain or headache who participated in a behavioural change program: a retrospective database analysis using real-world healthcare data.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the potential benefit of a behavioural change programme in working individuals with chronic pain or headache, in the form of increased physician consultation.

Design

Retrospective observational database study.

Setting

Members of employment-based healthcare insurance in Japan.

Participants

Individual-level data of working individuals aged <75 years from November 2019 through March 2020 were extracted from a database managed by MinaCare Co., Ltd. Included individuals had records of programme participation and chronic pain or headache (self-reported), and did not consult physicians for ≥3 months before programme participation.

Outcome measures

Physician consultation rates after participating in the programme were examined from Decembe

SUBMITTER: Nozawa K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9660713 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature