Chronic widespread pain (CWP) is common and associated with poor general health. There
has been no attempt to derive a robust prevalence estimate of CWP or assess how this is …

Background Low back pain (LBP) is a common and costly problem that many interpret within
a biopsychosocial model. There is renewed concern that core-sets of outcome measures do …

Background Regional musculoskeletal pain such as back or shoulder pain are commonly
reported symptoms in the community. The extent of consultation to primary care with such …

Chronic widespread pain (CWP) is a significant burden in communities. Understanding the
impact of population‐dependent (eg, age, gender) and contextual‐dependent (eg survey …

Importance Opioid use for chronic nonmalignant pain can be harmful. Objective To test
whether a multicomponent, group-based, self-management intervention reduced opioid use …

Objectives. The aims of this study were to examine the impact of peripheral joint OA across
five large European countries and how people with OA use pharmacotherapies. Methods …

A few studies of long-term outcomes for pediatric functional abdominal pain (FAP) have
assessed acute non-abdominal pain at follow-up, but none has assessed chronic pain. We …

Study objective: The temporal relationships among sleep, depressive symptoms, and pain
are unclear. This longitudinal study examines whether insomnia and sleep duration predict …

The aims of the PRIME study (Prevalence, Impact and Cost of Chronic Pain) were 3-fold:(1)
to determine the point prevalence of chronic pain in Ireland;(2) to compare the psychological …

Background Chronic pain is common, often widespread and has a substantial impact on
health and quality of life. The relationship between chronic pain and mortality is unclear …