ArticleThe journal of pain2011
Occurrence and characteristics of chronic pain in a community-based cohort of indigent adults living with HIV infection.
Article in The journal of pain, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05554146 (The Impact of Medical Cannabis on Pain and Inflammation in People Living With HIV), which is not on this map. Cited by 123 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The Impact of Medical Cannabis on Pain and Inflammation in People Living With HIV
Who cites it
123 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 179 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- 2017 HIVMA of IDSA Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Chronic Pain in Patients Living With HIV.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2017Guideline
- Pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments for chronic pain in individuals with HIV: a systematic review.AIDS care · 2016Pooled it
- Chronic Pain in HIV-Infected Patients: Relationship to Depression, Substance Use, and Mental Health and Pain Treatment.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2015Pooled it
- Pain in people living with HIV/AIDS: a systematic review.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2014Pooled it
- The Skills to Manage Pain Randomized Trial: Results of Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence, HIV Primary Care Retention, and Virologic Suppression Outcomes.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2025Trial
- Cost-Effectiveness of a Tailored Pain Self-Management Intervention Compared With Enhanced Usual Care Among People With HIV and Chronic Pain: An Economic Evaluation.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2025Trial
- Pilot RCT comparing low-dose naltrexone, gabapentin and placebo to reduce pain among people with HIV with alcohol problems.PloS one · 2024Trial
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- Positive affect skills may improve pain management in people with HIV.Journal of health psychology · 2020Trial
- Computer-based personalized feedback intervention for cigarette smoking and prescription analgesic misuse among persons living with HIV (PLWH).Behaviour research and therapy · 2019Trial
- A Randomized Pilot Trial of a Novel Behavioral Intervention for Chronic Pain Tailored to Individuals with HIV.AIDS and behavior · 2018Trial
- Pain is associated with risky drinking over time among HIV-infected persons in St. Petersburg, Russia.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2014Trial
- Pain is associated with heroin use over time in HIV-infected Russian drinkers.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2013Trial
- Directly observed antidepressant medication treatment and HIV outcomes among homeless and marginally housed HIV-positive adults: a randomized controlled trial.American journal of public health · 2013Trial
- A Mixed-Methods Pilot Study of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for HIV-Associated Chronic Pain.Behavioral medicine (Washington, D.C.)Trial
- Cocaine Use, Unhealthy Alcohol Use, and Pain Interference Among People with HIV.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- Sex differences in the capacity of minor phytocannabinoids to attenuate nociceptive insults in HIV-1 Tat-expressing mice.NeuroImmune pharmacology and therapeutics · 2025Article
- Emerging treatments for chronic neuropathic pain from a cross-disease perspective: developments and applications of nanomaterials.The journal of headache and pain · 2025Review
- The single-cell opioid responses in the context of HIV (SCORCH) consortium.Molecular psychiatry · 2024Article
63 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
unlabelledPain is common among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), but little is known about chronic pain in socioeconomically disadvantaged HIV-infected populations with high rates of substance abuse in the postantiretroviral era. This cross-sectional study describes the occurrence and characteristics of pain in a community-based cohort of 296 indigent PLWHA. Participants completed questionnaires about sociodemographics, substance use, depression, and pain. Cut-point analysis was used to generate categories of pain severity. Of the 270 participants who reported pain or the use of a pain medication in the past week, 8.2% had mild pain, 38.1% had moderate pain, and 53.7% had severe pain. Female sex and less education were associated with more severe pain. Depression was more common among participants with severe pain than among those with mild pain. Increasing pain severity was associated with daily pain and with chronic pain. Over half of the participants reported having a prescription for an opioid analgesic. Findings from this study suggest that chronic pain is a significant problem in this high risk, socioeconomically disadvantaged group of patients with HIV disease and high rates of previous or concurrent use of illicit drugs. PERSPECTIVE: This article presents epidemiological data showing that unrelieved chronic pain is a significant problem for indigent people living with HIV. Participants reported pain severity similar to those with metastatic cancer. Despite high rates of substance use disorders, approximately half received prescriptions for opioid analgesics, although few for long-acting agents.
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