Chronic pain in Australia: a prevalence study

By F. Blyth, L. March, A. Brnabic, Louisa R Jorm, M. Williamson, M. Cousins. Pain, 2001

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• Clinical Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Treatments for Patients With Chronic Pain (2002, background): “In a large-scale telephone survey conducted in Australia, approximately 17% of male respondents and 20% of female respondents reported the presence of some form of chronic pain.(6) In the Welsh Health Survey more than 30% of respondents reported that they experienced back pain, and 25% of the adults”
• Anxiety disorders and comorbid medical illness. (2008, background): “[164] Blyth FM, March LM, Brnabic AJ, Jorm LR, Williamson M, Cousins MJ.”
• A longitudinal study of the prevalence and characteristics of pain in the first 5 years following spinal cord injury (2003, methodology): “This difference in global self-rated health between those with and without pain is similar to that demonstrated in a community sample of those with and without pain (Blyth et al., 2001).”
• Prevalence and Impact of Pain among Older Adults in the United States: Findings from the 2011 National Health and Aging Trends Study (2013, background): “For example, the overall prevalence of pain estimated in previous studies ranges considerably from 24% to 72% [2,3,5,7,13,26,27,51,63].”
• Pain: Psychological Perspectives (2004, background): “Pain, 85, 317–332. Waddell, G. (1987). A new clinical model for the treatment of low back pain. Spine, 12, 632–644. Waddell, G. (1991). Low back disability. A syndrome of Western civilization. Neurosurgery Clinics of North America, 2, 719–738. Waddell, G. (1992). Biopsychosocial analysis of low back”
• Survey of chronic pain in Europe: Prevalence, impact on daily life, and treatment (2006, background): “In a computer-assisted telephone survey of 17,543 individuals in the Australian general adult population, which defined chronic pain as pain every day for three months in the six months before the interview, the prevalence was 18.5% (Blyth et al., 2001).”
• The biopsychosocial approach to chronic pain: scientific advances and future directions. (2007, background): “Epidemiological research has shown that chronic pain (loosely defined as prolonged and persistant pain of at least 3 months in duration) and chronic recurrent pain (recurrent episodes of pain interspersed with pain-free periods extending over months or years) affects 10%–20% of adults in the general”
• Guidance on the management of pain in older people. (2013, background): “[12] Blyth 2001 Australia Cross-sectional Telephone interviews COM”
• The effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy on mental health of adults with a chronic medical disease: a meta-analysis. (2010, neutral): “7% [3,4].”
• Pain Management: A Fundamental Human Right (2007, background): “A prevalence study in Australia revealed a strong association between chronic pain and being unemployed for health reasons and receiving disability benefits (15).”
• Prevalence of Chronic Pain and High-Impact Chronic Pain Among Adults — United States, 2016 (2018, background): “The results of subgroup analyses in the current study were consistent with findings in these studies (3,8) insofar as the prevalence of high-impact chronic pain was higher among women, adults who had achieved lower levels of education, and those who were not employed at the time of the survey, and w”
• Prevalence of chronic pain with neuropathic characteristics in the general population (2008, neutral): “…of more recent surveys using similar criteria have consistently reported prevalence rates of between 15% and 25% for chronic pain of at least a moderate intensity (Andersson et al., 1993; Buskila et al., 2000; Blyth et al., 2001; Eriksen et al., 2003; Rustoen et al., 2004; Breivik et al., 2006).”
• Handbook of Health Psychology (2001, background): “Although some research has questioned the linearity of the relationship between age and chronic pain, most population-based research has generally shown that while the risk for acute pain is highest in children, the risk for chronic pain increases with age (Bergman et al., 2001; Blyth et al. 2001; N”
• Interventional techniques: evidence-based practice guidelines in the management of chronic spinal pain. (2007, background): “The literature also has consistently described the high prevalence of chronic pain in children, adults and the elderly with associated functional disability (119-126).”