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A Brief Survey of the COVID-19 Pandemic's Impact on the Chronic Pain Experience

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has forced sweeping social and behavioral changes that have adversely affected the general population. Many changes, such as business closures, working from home, increased psychological distress, and delayed access to health care, could have unique adverse effects...

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Autores principales: Chatkoff, David K., Leonard, Michelle T., Najdi, Roukaya R., Cruga, Briana, Forsythe, Alicia, Bourgeau, Celia, Easton, Hillary
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Pain Management Nursing. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8790052/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34772607
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmn.2021.10.003
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author Chatkoff, David K.
Leonard, Michelle T.
Najdi, Roukaya R.
Cruga, Briana
Forsythe, Alicia
Bourgeau, Celia
Easton, Hillary
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Leonard, Michelle T.
Najdi, Roukaya R.
Cruga, Briana
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Bourgeau, Celia
Easton, Hillary
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description BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has forced sweeping social and behavioral changes that have adversely affected the general population. Many changes, such as business closures, working from home, increased psychological distress, and delayed access to health care, could have unique adverse effects on patients diagnosed with chronic pain (CP). The present study sought to examine perceived changes in the CP experience brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. DESIGN: Participants included 487 self-reported patients with musculoskeletal, neuropathic, or postsurgical pain recruited using CloudResearch. A 53-item survey was created to assess changes in perceived pain, mood, control over pain, physical activity, employment, and medical access since the onset of the pandemic. RESULTS: Results suggested a worsening of the pain experience, particularly for women, with greater pain, negative affect, sedentary functioning, perceived decline in treatment quality, and increased treatment delays. Of note, pandemic-related declines in control over pain, which represents an important clinical target, are associated with other pandemic-related declines and also mediates relevant associations. CONCLUSIONS: For frontline treatment providers, particularly primary care nurses and physicians, these findings may be relevant in order to reduce the likelihood of a worsening of symptoms, loss of self-efficacy regarding management of pain and/or potential maladaptive increase in the use of pain medications.
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spelling pubmed-87900522022-01-26 A Brief Survey of the COVID-19 Pandemic's Impact on the Chronic Pain Experience Chatkoff, David K. Leonard, Michelle T. Najdi, Roukaya R. Cruga, Briana Forsythe, Alicia Bourgeau, Celia Easton, Hillary Pain Manag Nurs Original Article BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has forced sweeping social and behavioral changes that have adversely affected the general population. Many changes, such as business closures, working from home, increased psychological distress, and delayed access to health care, could have unique adverse effects on patients diagnosed with chronic pain (CP). The present study sought to examine perceived changes in the CP experience brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. DESIGN: Participants included 487 self-reported patients with musculoskeletal, neuropathic, or postsurgical pain recruited using CloudResearch. A 53-item survey was created to assess changes in perceived pain, mood, control over pain, physical activity, employment, and medical access since the onset of the pandemic. RESULTS: Results suggested a worsening of the pain experience, particularly for women, with greater pain, negative affect, sedentary functioning, perceived decline in treatment quality, and increased treatment delays. Of note, pandemic-related declines in control over pain, which represents an important clinical target, are associated with other pandemic-related declines and also mediates relevant associations. CONCLUSIONS: For frontline treatment providers, particularly primary care nurses and physicians, these findings may be relevant in order to reduce the likelihood of a worsening of symptoms, loss of self-efficacy regarding management of pain and/or potential maladaptive increase in the use of pain medications. American Society for Pain Management Nursing. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022-02 2021-10-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8790052/ /pubmed/34772607 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmn.2021.10.003 Text en © 2021 American Society for Pain Management Nursing. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Easton, Hillary
A Brief Survey of the COVID-19 Pandemic's Impact on the Chronic Pain Experience
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmn.2021.10.003
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