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http://hdl.handle.net/1843/48156| Type: | Artigo de Periódico |
| Title: | Chronic pain is associated with increased health care use among community-dwelling older adults in Brazil: the Pain in the Elderly (PAINEL) study |
| Authors: | Juliana Lustosa Torres Sílvia Lanziotti Azevedo da Silva Fabiane Ribeiro Ferreira Liliane Patricia de Souza Mendes Luciana Andrade Carneiro Machado |
| Abstract: | Background: Chronic pain is known to increase health care use in high-income countries, but in Brazil, little is known. Objective: To investigate the association between chronic pain and health care use among Brazilian older adults and explore the relationship between pain severity and health care use. Methods: This cross-sectional study was derived from the population-based study Frailty in Brazilian Older People-FIBRA. Chronic pain, pain intensity and pain-related disability were assessed through additional telephone interviews. Health care use was measured by the number of doctor visits, hospitalization events and high health care use (highest quartile of the distribution for number of doctor visits) in the last 12 months. Associations were tested in regression analyses adjusted for predisposing, enabling and illness-level components from the Andersen Model. Results: The 383 participants were predominantly female (71.0%), mean age was 75.6 (6.1 SD). The prevalence of chronic pain was 30.0%. Chronic pain was associated with number of doctor visits [unstandardized B coefficient 1.48; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.35–2.62] and high health care use [odds ratios (OR) = 2.27; 95% CI = 1.39–3.72]. Pain intensity was associated with high health care use in univariate (OR = 1.13; 95% CI = 1.06–1.20) but not multivariate analysis (OR = 1.12; 95% CI = 0.94–1.33). Pain-related disability was not associated with any outcome. Conclusion: Chronic pain increased health care use among Brazilian older adults. Improving the quality of primary care management of individuals at greater risk of chronic pain should be a cornerstone of health policies directed towards reducing the personal and societal burden of ageing. |
| Subject: | Envelhecimento Dor crônica Países em desenvolvimento Epidemiologia Serviços de saúde |
| language: | eng |
| metadata.dc.publisher.country: | Brasil |
| Publisher: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais |
| Publisher Initials: | UFMG |
| metadata.dc.publisher.department: | EEF - DEPARTAMENTO DE FISIOTERAPIA MED - DEPARTAMENTO DE MEDICINA PREVENTIVA SOCIAL |
| Rights: | Acesso Aberto |
| metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmy123 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1843/48156 |
| Issue Date: | Dec-2018 |
| metadata.dc.url.externa: | https://academic.oup.com/fampra/article/36/5/594/5231187?login=true |
| metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: | Family Practice |
| Appears in Collections: | Artigo de Periódico |
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