Influence of Social and Health Indicators on Pain Interference With Everyday Activities Among Older Black and White Cancer Patients

Baker, Tamara A.; O’Connor, Melissa; Krok‐Schoen, Jessica L.

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“…In persons with pain, self-efficacy concerns the expectation and confidence that they can function in daily life despite pain [38]. Although prospective cohort studies of people with pain report that low self-efficacy predicts reduced daily activity [42] or interference with psychosocial aspects of life [7], some report high selfefficacy as a positive influence on subsequent improvements in daily function [23] and return to work [1]. The relevance to population studies and public health lies in the potential for improving self-efficacy and coping, as achieved by osteoarthritis self-help groups [12] and public health campaigns about back pain [11].…”

Section: Factors Explaining Non-interfering Versus Interfering Painmentioning

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Pain that does not interfere with daily life—a new focus for population epidemiology and public health?

Jordan

Sim

Croft

et al. 2018

Pain

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BackgroundThe Global Burden of Disease study [20] has highlighted just how much disability is attributable to common syndromes of chronic pain such as back pain and osteoarthritis. Yet prevention of chronic pain remains low in national public health priorities in most countries.One reason may be that epidemiological research into causality and risk factors for disease onset, which has driven and underpinned public health transformation of the occurrence of diseases such as lung cancer and cardiovascular disease, has not provided an evidence base for population-level strategies and action to reduce the risk of chronic disabling pain. In this topical review, we consider the potential for epidemiological research on chronic pain to shift its customary focus in order to support a more practical public health target, namely to reduce population levels of pain interference so that people with chronic pain can better engage in life.Pain-related interference has been defined as 'perceived disruption in daily activities, relationships, roles, and employment resulting from pain' [9]. Chronic or recurrent pain is reported by around one-third of the adult population, but up to half state that their pain does not interfere with daily life [27,48]. Many people, therefore, have chronic pain that does not interfere with their lives, and there is the potential to identify modifiable factors associated with non-interference.Population-based epidemiological research can contribute to this by quantifying characteristics associated with interference-free pain and investigating how people in community settings maintain an interference-free life despite continuing pain. In this topical review we consider the current contribution of epidemiological studies to this objective. We A C C E P T E D Copyright Ó 8 8 by the International Association for the Study of Pain. Unauthorized reproduction of this article is prohibited. 2018 2 start by introducing the measurement of pain interference and the scope of our literature search, before summarizing our findings. We discuss the wider context of research into noninterfering pain, and propose a research agenda for epidemiological studies. Measuring pain interference Questions about how pain interferes with daily life, in general or in specific areas such as mobility or sleep, have long been incorporated in self-report instruments. Examples include: one item in the Medical-Outcomes-Survey Short-Form 36 on the extent to which recent pain has interfered with social or domestic work [53]; three items in the Brief Pain Inventory [49] about interference with social and emotional components of daily life; and 41 items in the open-access bank created by the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Pain Interference (PROMIS-PI) initiative [3]. These questions target 'life as it is', as compared with tests of physical function or measures of impairment. Items on interference in the PROMIS-PI databank have high internal consistency and are strongly unidimensional [3]. These interference meas...

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Section: Factors Explaining Non-interfering Versus Interfering Painmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pain that does not interfere with daily life—a new focus for population epidemiology and public health?

Jordan

Sim

Croft

et al. 2018

Pain

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“…In persons with pain, self-efficacy concerns the expectation and confidence that they can function in daily life despite pain [38]. Although prospective cohort studies of people with pain report that low self-efficacy predicts reduced A C C E P T E D 6 daily activity [42] or interference with psychosocial aspects of life [7], some report high selfefficacy as a positive influence on subsequent improvements in daily function [23] and return to work [1]. The relevance to population studies and public health lies in the potential for improving self-efficacy and coping, as achieved by osteoarthritis self-help groups [12] and public health campaigns about back pain [11].…”

Section: Factors Explaining Non-interfering Versus Interfering Painmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pain that does not interfere with daily life—a new focus for population epidemiology and public health?

Jordan¹,

Sim²,

Croft³

et al. 2018

PAIN

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A Narrative Review of the Current Research in Cancer-Related Pain Inequities: The Necessity of Applying Intersectionality to Advance Cancer Pain Research

AuBuchon,

Lyons,

Braun

et al. 2024

Cancer Control

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Cancer-related pain has a significant impact on quality of life for patients with cancer. In populations without cancer, there are documented pain inequities associated with minoritized racial and/or ethnic groups, women, and low socioeconomic status. However, our understanding of pain inequities specifically among patients with cancer remains incomplete. We narratively synthesized published quantitative research on cancer-related pain inequities in the US in the past decade. A search identified 17 English-language articles examining pain for patients with various cancer types at different treatment stages. Our review revealed mixed findings comparing cancer-related pain by racial group (e.g., Black vs White) and sex (male vs female), but consistent findings indicating that people with lower (vs higher) socioeconomic status and younger (vs older) patients report more cancer-related pain. Research on cancer pain among sexual and gender minorities remains scant. Key research gaps include a need for more research that incorporates an intersectional perspective by exploring intersecting subgroups and measuring social and structural processes that drive pain inequities. These findings underscore an important need for researchers to use an intersectional approach to cancer pain to help elucidate key populations at-risk for exacerbated cancer-related pain and identify ways to mitigate social and structural processes that drive these inequities.

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Influence of Social and Health Indicators on Pain Interference With Everyday Activities Among Older Black and White Cancer Patients

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Pain that does not interfere with daily life—a new focus for population epidemiology and public health?

Pain that does not interfere with daily life—a new focus for population epidemiology and public health?

Pain that does not interfere with daily life—a new focus for population epidemiology and public health?

A Narrative Review of the Current Research in Cancer-Related Pain Inequities: The Necessity of Applying Intersectionality to Advance Cancer Pain Research

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