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Heterogeneity in the association between weather and pain severity among patients with chronic pain: a Bayesian multilevel regression analysis

INTRODUCTION: Previous studies on the association between weather and pain severity among patients with chronic pain have produced mixed results. In part, this inconsistency may be due to differences in individual pain responses to the weather. METHODS: To test the hypothesis that there might be sub...

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Autores principales: Yimer, Belay B., Schultz, David M., Beukenhorst, Anna L., Lunt, Mark, Pisaniello, Huai L., House, Thomas, Sergeant, Jamie C., McBeth, John, Dixon, William G.
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Publicado: Wolters Kluwer 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8759613/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35047712
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PR9.0000000000000963
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author Yimer, Belay B.
Schultz, David M.
Beukenhorst, Anna L.
Lunt, Mark
Pisaniello, Huai L.
House, Thomas
Sergeant, Jamie C.
McBeth, John
Dixon, William G.
author_facet Yimer, Belay B.
Schultz, David M.
Beukenhorst, Anna L.
Lunt, Mark
Pisaniello, Huai L.
House, Thomas
Sergeant, Jamie C.
McBeth, John
Dixon, William G.
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description INTRODUCTION: Previous studies on the association between weather and pain severity among patients with chronic pain have produced mixed results. In part, this inconsistency may be due to differences in individual pain responses to the weather. METHODS: To test the hypothesis that there might be subgroups of participants with different pain responses to different weather conditions, we examined data from a longitudinal smartphone-based study, Cloudy with a Chance of Pain, conducted between January 2016 and April 2017. The study recruited more than 13,000 participants and recorded daily pain severity on a 5-point scale (range: no pain to very severe pain) along with hourly local weather data for up to 15 months. We used a Bayesian multilevel model to examine the weather–pain association. RESULTS: We found 1 in 10 patients with chronic pain were sensitive to the temperature, 1 in 25 to relative humidity, 1 in 50 to pressure, and 3 in 100 to wind speed, after adjusting for age, sex, belief in the weather–pain association, mood, and activity level. The direction of the weather–pain association differed between people. Although participants seem to be differentially sensitive to weather conditions, there is no definite indication that participants' underlying pain conditions play a role in weather sensitivity. CONCLUSION: This study demonstrated that weather sensitivity among patients with chronic pain is more apparent in some subgroups of participants. In addition, among those sensitive to the weather, the direction of the weather–pain association can differ.
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spelling pubmed-87596132022-01-18 Heterogeneity in the association between weather and pain severity among patients with chronic pain: a Bayesian multilevel regression analysis Yimer, Belay B. Schultz, David M. Beukenhorst, Anna L. Lunt, Mark Pisaniello, Huai L. House, Thomas Sergeant, Jamie C. McBeth, John Dixon, William G. Pain Rep General Section INTRODUCTION: Previous studies on the association between weather and pain severity among patients with chronic pain have produced mixed results. In part, this inconsistency may be due to differences in individual pain responses to the weather. METHODS: To test the hypothesis that there might be subgroups of participants with different pain responses to different weather conditions, we examined data from a longitudinal smartphone-based study, Cloudy with a Chance of Pain, conducted between January 2016 and April 2017. The study recruited more than 13,000 participants and recorded daily pain severity on a 5-point scale (range: no pain to very severe pain) along with hourly local weather data for up to 15 months. We used a Bayesian multilevel model to examine the weather–pain association. RESULTS: We found 1 in 10 patients with chronic pain were sensitive to the temperature, 1 in 25 to relative humidity, 1 in 50 to pressure, and 3 in 100 to wind speed, after adjusting for age, sex, belief in the weather–pain association, mood, and activity level. The direction of the weather–pain association differed between people. Although participants seem to be differentially sensitive to weather conditions, there is no definite indication that participants' underlying pain conditions play a role in weather sensitivity. CONCLUSION: This study demonstrated that weather sensitivity among patients with chronic pain is more apparent in some subgroups of participants. In addition, among those sensitive to the weather, the direction of the weather–pain association can differ. Wolters Kluwer 2022-01-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8759613/ /pubmed/35047712 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PR9.0000000000000963 Text en Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of The International Association for the Study of Pain. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CCBY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle General Section
Yimer, Belay B.
Schultz, David M.
Beukenhorst, Anna L.
Lunt, Mark
Pisaniello, Huai L.
House, Thomas
Sergeant, Jamie C.
McBeth, John
Dixon, William G.
Heterogeneity in the association between weather and pain severity among patients with chronic pain: a Bayesian multilevel regression analysis
title Heterogeneity in the association between weather and pain severity among patients with chronic pain: a Bayesian multilevel regression analysis
title_full Heterogeneity in the association between weather and pain severity among patients with chronic pain: a Bayesian multilevel regression analysis
title_fullStr Heterogeneity in the association between weather and pain severity among patients with chronic pain: a Bayesian multilevel regression analysis
title_full_unstemmed Heterogeneity in the association between weather and pain severity among patients with chronic pain: a Bayesian multilevel regression analysis
title_short Heterogeneity in the association between weather and pain severity among patients with chronic pain: a Bayesian multilevel regression analysis
title_sort heterogeneity in the association between weather and pain severity among patients with chronic pain: a bayesian multilevel regression analysis
topic General Section
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8759613/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35047712
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PR9.0000000000000963
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