WHODAS measurement properties for women with dysmenorrhea
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2023 Background There is an association of dysmenorrhea with human functioning and disability. However, no patient-reported outcome measure has been developed to assess this construct in women with dysmenorrhea.
Guilherme Tavares de Arruda +5 more
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Prevalence of chronic pain in the UK: a systematic review and meta-analysis of population studies
BMJ Open, 2016 Objectives There is little consensus regarding the burden of pain in the UK. The purpose of this review was to synthesise existing data on the prevalence of various chronic pain phenotypes in order to produce accurate and contemporary national estimates.
A. Fayaz +4 more
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An exploration of attitudes towards psychological interventions for pain management amongst Maltese pain chronic sufferers [PDF]
, 2019 Chronic pain is a living reality for many individuals. Research reveals that individuals are often reluctant to seek psychological help. Chronic pain research and attitudes towards psychological treatment among a Maltese chronic pain population is solely
Portelli, Pamela
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Pain Research and Management, 2023 Background. Informed consent is the first step of every medical procedure and is considered a standard of care for patients undergoing medical interventions.
Mohammad Ghorbanhoseini +4 more
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Undiagnosed mood disorders and sleep disturbances in primary care patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain. [PDF]
, 2013 Objective. The study aims to determine the prevalence of undiagnosed comorbid mood disorders in patients suffering chronic musculoskeletal pain in a primary care setting and to identify sleep disturbances and other associated factors in these ...
Alejandro Salazar +11 more
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Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2022 Introduction: Virtual reality (VR) has the potential to lessen pain and anxiety experienced by pediatric patients undergoing burn wound care procedures.
Kathryn L. Smith +5 more
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Restoration of Reduced Self-Efficacy Caused by Chronic Pain through Manipulated Sensory Discrepancy [PDF]
Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on
Neurorehabilitation V. ICNR 2024. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 31Human physical function is governed by self-efficacy, the belief in one's motor capacity. In chronic pain patients, this capacity may remain reduced long after the damage causing the pain has been cured. Chronic pain alters body schema, affecting how patients perceive the dimension and pose of their bodies.
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Spontaneous back-pain alters randomness in functional connections in large scale brain networks: A random matrix perspective [PDF]
Physica A; 2019, 2019 We use randomness as a measure to assess the impact of evoked pain on brain networks. Randomness is defined here as the intrinsic correlations that exist between different brain regions when the brain is in a task-free state. We use fMRI data of three brain states in a set of back pain patients monitored over a period of 6 months.
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Prevalence and impact of chronic widespread pain in the Bangladeshi and White populations of Tower Hamlets, East London [PDF]
, 2013 The prevalence and impact of chronic pain differ between ethnic groups. We report a study of the comparative prevalence and impact of chronic pain in Bangladeshi, British Bangladeshi and White British/Irish people.
Ali, Anwara +8 more
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Intelligent Sight and Sound: A Chronic Cancer Pain Dataset [PDF]
2021, Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing
Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track, 2022 Cancer patients experience high rates of chronic pain throughout the treatment process. Assessing pain for this patient population is a vital component of psychological and functional well-being, as it can cause a rapid deterioration of quality of life.
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