ArticleEuropean geriatric medicine2019
Chronic pain: prevalent and independently associated with frailty and female gender in geriatric outpatients.
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- The risk of falls among the aging population: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2022Pooled it
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- Pain characteristics and incident frailty in community-dwelling older adults: dose-response relationships and sex differences in a longitudinal study on aging in Taiwan.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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- Mediation of the frailty index, the relationship between sleep duration and chronic pain in different body regions: insights from the CHARLS cross-sectional study.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2025Article
- Sensory profiles in older adults with orthopedic conditions during quiet stance: a cross-sectional study.European review of aging and physical activity : official journal of the European Group for Research into Elderly and Physical Activity · 2025Article
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- The vicious cycle of frailty and pain: a two-sided causal relationship revealed.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
- The role of frailty on quality of life in older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2023Article
- Screening for frailty and sarcopenia in community-dwelling older adults: a cross-sectional study from the Eastern Black Sea region of Turkey.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeThis study aims to determine the prevalence and factors independently associated with chronic pain.
methodsParticipants ≥ 65 years of age admitted to a geriatric outpatient-clinic were recruited between November 2012 and May 2018. Chronic pain is defined as presence of musculoskeletal system-based pain ongoing more than 3 months. Numeric rating scale (NRS) was applied to assess pain severity. Physical activity status was recorded as never or 1-2 times per week or everyday as appropriate. Following geriatric syndromes were assessed: sleep problem, fall within past year, depression by Geriatric Depression Scale Short Form (GDS-SF), frailty by FRAIL scale, functionality by modified Katz activities of daily living (ADL) and Lawton instrumental ADL scales, and quality of life by Euro-Quality of Life-5D (EQ-5D) and EQ Visual Analog Scale.
resultsThe study population consisted of 1441 patients. Of those, 969 were female and 472 were male. Mean age was 75.5 ± 6.6 years. The prevalence of chronic pain was 54.2% (n = 781). The median NRS score was 5 (1-10). Female gender, sleep problem, decreased functionality, and lower quality of life were independently associated with chronic pain after adjustment for educational status, presence of physical activity, fall within the past year, depression, and frailty. When the second analysis performed after the data with larger amount of missing value is removed, female gender and frailty remained independently associated with chronic pain.
conclusionChronic pain is common and independently associated with female gender and frailty in geriatric outpatients. Factors those are associated with chronic pain, as documented in this study, may induce further longitudinal studies.
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