ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2018
Pain and Pain Medication among Older People with Intellectual Disabilities in Comparison with the General Population.
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- A literature review of cancer diagnostic tests and treatments in adults with intellectual disability.HRB open research · 2025Pooled it
- Investigating pain-related medication use and contribution to polypharmacy in adults with intellectual disabilities: a systematic review.BMC medicine · 2024Pooled it
- An Ethnographic Study Concerning the Implementation of Education on Ageing for Older Adults with Mild Intellectual Disability: The Perspective of the Educators.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
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- The Different Patterns of Over-the-Counter Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs or Analgesics Use in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease and the General Population.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Health care utilisation among older people with Down syndrome compared to specific medical guidelines for health surveillance: a Swedish national register study.BMC health services research · 2020Article
- Prescription of pain medication among older cancer patients with and without an intellectual disability: a national register study.BMC cancer · 2019Article
- Demographic and diagnostic profiles of older people with intellectual disability and prescription of antipsychotics.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2019Article
- Pharmacotherapy for mood and anxiety disorders in older people with intellectual disability in comparison with the general population.BMC psychiatry · 2019Article
- The occurrence of comorbidities with affective and anxiety disorders among older people with intellectual disability compared with the general population: a register study.BMC psychiatry · 2019Article
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Abstract
Little is known about pain and pain treatment among people with intellectual disabilities (IDs). We aimed to describe pain and pain medications among older people with ID compared to the general population. Data on diagnoses and prescriptions were collected from national registers for the period between 2006 and 2012 for 7936 people with an ID and a referent cohort from the general population. IDs were associated with a decreased risk of being diagnosed with headaches, musculoskeletal pain, and pain related to the circulatory and respiratory systems, but they were associated with increased risk of being diagnosed with pain related to the urinary system. Among men, IDs were associated with an increased risk of being diagnosed with visceral pain. People with IDs were more likely to be prescribed paracetamol and fentanyl regardless of the type of pain but were less likely to be prescribed COX(1+2) and COX2 inhibitors and weak opioids. Healthcare staff and caregivers must be made aware of signs of pain among people with IDs who may not be able to communicate it themselves. Further research is needed to investigate whether people with IDs are prescribed paracetamol rather than other pain drugs due to physicians trying to avoid polypharmacy or if there are other reasons not to prescribe a greater range of pain treatments.
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