Prevalence and characteristics of chronic pain among patients in Portuguese primary care units

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Autor(a) principal: Antunes, Filipe
Data de Publicação: 2021
Outros Autores: Pereira, Raul M., Afonso, Vera, Tinoco, Rita
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/49554
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spelling Prevalence and characteristics of chronic pain among patients in Portuguese primary care unitsChronic painPortugalPrevalencePrimary care units© The Author(s) 2021. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.Introduction: Chronic pain (CP) negatively impacts the lives of almost 2 billion people worldwide, including approximately 37% of adults in Portugal. As most of these patients are followed by a general practitioner, identifying the prevalence and characterizing the pain of patients who visit primary care units will provide valuable insights into the CP landscape in Portugal. Methods: To achieve this goal, an observational, cross-sectional study was conducted in 58 primary care units of mainland Portugal between June 2017 and March 2018. Interviews were conducted with 8445 patients, and 578 CP patients were characterized. Results: We observed that one third of patients suffered from CP, and of these, approximately one third felt that their pain management was insufficient. Most of the population was 55 years old or older, retired, and had more than three comorbidities. However, age and the number and type of comorbidities were not predictors of pain intensity. Additionally, most of the population had pain or discomfort that hindered their mobility and the performance of their everyday activities. This decrease in the quality of life led to feelings of anxiety and depression, which were associated with pain intensity. Conclusion: Given the high prevalence of CP, strategies to improve the quality of life of these patients and decrease the negative impacts, as well as awareness campaigns to increase the populations' knowledge of this condition, are essential for the suitable and timely treatment of CP.Springer NatureRepositório da Universidade de LisboaAntunes, FilipePereira, Raul M.Afonso, VeraTinoco, Rita2021-09-20T17:02:19Z20212021-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/49554engPain Ther. 2021 Aug 282193-823710.1007/s40122-021-00308-22193-651Xinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-08T16:53:26Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/49554Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T22:01:11.202867Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Prevalence and characteristics of chronic pain among patients in Portuguese primary care units
title Prevalence and characteristics of chronic pain among patients in Portuguese primary care units
spellingShingle Prevalence and characteristics of chronic pain among patients in Portuguese primary care units
Antunes, Filipe
Chronic pain
Portugal
Prevalence
Primary care units
title_short Prevalence and characteristics of chronic pain among patients in Portuguese primary care units
title_full Prevalence and characteristics of chronic pain among patients in Portuguese primary care units
title_fullStr Prevalence and characteristics of chronic pain among patients in Portuguese primary care units
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence and characteristics of chronic pain among patients in Portuguese primary care units
title_sort Prevalence and characteristics of chronic pain among patients in Portuguese primary care units
author Antunes, Filipe
author_facet Antunes, Filipe
Pereira, Raul M.
Afonso, Vera
Tinoco, Rita
author_role author
author2 Pereira, Raul M.
Afonso, Vera
Tinoco, Rita
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Antunes, Filipe
Pereira, Raul M.
Afonso, Vera
Tinoco, Rita
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Chronic pain
Portugal
Prevalence
Primary care units
topic Chronic pain
Portugal
Prevalence
Primary care units
description © The Author(s) 2021. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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