ArticleMedical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research2014
Is experimentally induced pain associated with socioeconomic status? Do poor people hurt more?
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- Experimental pain tolerance is associated with dental anxiety- the Tromsø study 2015-2016.BMC oral health · 2025Article
- Pain perception in personality disorders.PloS one · 2025Article
- Inequities in Inpatient Obstetrics Pain Management and Evaluation: Age, Race, Mental Health, and Obesity.Maternal and child health journal · 2023Article
- Elucidating factors contributing to disparities in pain-related experiences among adults with or at risk for knee osteoarthritis.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Medicaid Payer Status Is a Predictor of Early Postoperative Pain Following Upper Extremity Procedures.Hand (New York, N.Y.) · 2022Article
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- Nut Consumption and Cardiovascular Risk Factors: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Mediterranean Population.Nutrients · 2017Article
- Socioeconomic status is associated with symptom severity and sickness absence in people with infectious intestinal disease in the UK.BMC infectious diseases · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe association of pain and socioeconomic status is widely reported, yet much less clearly understood. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of experimentally induced pain threshold and tolerance with socioeconomic status. MATERIAL/
methodsThe study sample consisted of 319 adult subjects from the population of the island of Vis, Croatia, which was previously shown to have a high level of social homogeneity. A manual dolorimeter was used to measure mechanical pressure pain threshold (least stimulus intensity) and pain tolerance (maximum tolerance stimulus intensity) on both hands. Pain tolerance interval was defined as the difference between pain tolerance and threshold. Years of schooling and material status were used as socioeconomic estimates.
resultsBoth of the socioeconomic estimates were significantly correlated with pain threshold, tolerance, and tolerance interval (P<0.001). The mixed modeling analysis, controlled for the effects of age, gender, and 4 psychological variables, indicated that education was not a significant predictor in any of the 3 models. However, lower material status was significantly associated with lower pain tolerance (P=0.038) and narrower pain tolerance interval (P=0.032), but not with pain threshold (P=0.506). The overall percentages of explained variance were lower in the tolerance interval model (20.2%) than in pain tolerance (23.1%) and threshold (33.1%), suggesting the increasing share of other confounding variables in pain tolerance and even more so in tolerance interval model.
conclusionsThese results suggest a significant association between experimentally induced pain tolerance and tolerance interval with material status, suggesting that poor people indeed do hurt more.
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