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ArticleInternal and emergency medicine2015

Pain in patients attending outpatient rehabilitation: results of a pilot study.

Francesca Cecchi, Anita Paperini, Raffaello Molino Lova, Guido Pasquini, Roberta Boni, Chiara Castagnoli, Federica Vannetti, Luca Padua, Claudio Macchi

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Article in Internal and emergency medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Neuropathic Pain in the Elderly.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Francesca CecchiFondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi, Scientific Institute, Florence, Italy, francescacecchi2002@libero.it.
Anita Paperini
Raffaello Molino Lova
Guido Pasquini
Roberta Boni
Chiara Castagnoli
Federica Vannetti
Luca Padua
Claudio Macchi
Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation · ITUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of the study was to investigate pain occurrence, characteristics and correlations in an outpatient rehabilitation setting. This was an observational pilot study. The setting was an outpatient rehabilitation facility. The subjects included all patients attending physiotherapy in the week 25th to 29th September 2010 and the interventions were made using self-administered questionnaire. Ongoing pain was assessed by a yes-no question, pain intensity by a numeric rating scale (NRS) ranging 0-10. Pain-related medication was investigated, along with pain characteristics, patient treatment expectations, life satisfaction, and catastrophism. Of the 201 patients, 12 were excluded and 189 enrolled (age 63.6 ± 15.6; 70.4% women). Pain (mean NRS = 5.6 ± 2.4) was reported by 60.9% patients (66% orthopedic and 40% neurological). In 87.8% cases, pain was chronic (>6 months). According to patients reporting pain, the main objectives of treatment were both pain relief and functional recovery for 51%; pain relief for 24.9%; functional recovery for 22.8%. Low treatment expectations were reported by 15.3% patients; catastrophism by 40.7%; 28.6% patients were on pain medication: use of drugs was related to age (p = 0.005), pain intensity (p = 0.009) and catastrophism (p = 0.0003). In a multivariate analysis, pain was independently correlated with an orthopedic versus neurological diagnosis (p = 0.000), and with reduced treatment expectations (p = 0.020), while independent of age (p = 0.74) gender (p = 0.22), and catastrophism (0.17). A high prevalence of pain was observed in outpatients undergoing rehabilitation. Pain was chronic in most cases. Pain relief was the most desired treatment outcome by patients reporting pain. Pain complaint was independently correlated to orthopedic vs neurological diagnosis and to reduced treatment expectations.

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Pain MeasurementArthroplasty, ReplacementAttitude to HealthBack PainCatastrophizationFemaleHumansItalyMaleMiddle AgedNervous System DiseasesOutpatientsPainPilot ProjectsTendinopathyWounds and Injuries

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