ArticleThe Clinical journal of pain2018
Social Support and Pain Outcomes After Trauma Exposure Among Older Adults: A Multicenter Longitudinal Study.
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- Pain Catastrophizing and Acute Post-Surgical Pain in Knee Arthroplasty Patients: The Moderating Role of Social Support.Journal of pain research · 2024Article
- Preferred Self-Administered Questionnaires to Assess Resilience, Optimism, Pain Acceptance, and Social Support in People with Pain: A Modified Delphi Study.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2022Article
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on functional and mental health outcomes after trauma.American journal of surgery · 2022Article
- Social Isolation and Falls Risk: Lack of Social Contacts Decreases the Likelihood of Bathroom Modification Among Older Adults With Fear of Falling.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2022Article
- Perceived social support partially mediates the association between childhood abuse and pain-related characteristics.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Lifetime ostracism experiences and mechanisms of pain.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Factors Associated With Health-Related Quality of Life Among Older People Exposed to the Jeju 4·3 Incident.Psychiatry investigation · 2021Article
- Association of Resilience and Social Networks with Pain Outcomes Among Older Adults.Population health management · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectivesCertain forms of social support have been shown to improve pain-coping behaviors and pain outcomes in older adults with chronic pain, but little is known about the effect of social support on pain outcomes in older adults following trauma exposure.
methodsWe analyzed data from a prospective longitudinal study of adults aged 65 years and older presenting to an emergency department after a motor vehicle collision (MVC) to characterize the relationship between perceived social support and MVC-related pain after trauma overall and by subgroups based on sex, depressive symptoms, and marital status.
resultsIn our sample (N=176), patients with low perceived social support had higher pain severity 6 weeks after MVC than patients with high perceived social support after adjustment for age, sex, race, and education (4.2 vs. 3.2, P=0.04). The protective effect of social support on pain severity at 6 weeks was more pronounced in men and in married individuals. Patients with low social support were less likely to receive an opioid prescription in the emergency department (15% vs. 32%, P=0.03), but there was no difference in opioid use at 6 weeks (22% vs. 20%, P=0.75). DISCUSSION: Among older adults experiencing trauma, low perceived social support was associated with higher levels of pain at 6 weeks.
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