PSYC 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Postherpetic Neuralgia, Diabetic Neuropathy, Chronic Pain
14 Mar 2019
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Prevalence of pain by age, sex and ethnicity. There is contradictory data in other surveys. Shingles is dreadful and a suicide risk (can cause post-herpetic neuralgia) Lower back pain may or may not be neuropathic. Covers a lot of different domains: disability burden is large: Difficulty with basic actions (high percentages in chronic pain) Who got a bunch of epidemiologist to characterize the burden of disability (how disabling it is and how long it lasts) Back pain, headaches and musculoskeletal pain including neck. Watch out: referred table is for all disabilities: pain is associated with co-morbidities: Insomnia (which may exacerbate the pain as well: pain can have a social burden. Poor appetite: chronic pain increases death risk. Increases suicide risk from 9. 4 to 19. 5% (thoughts), from 2. 5 to 6. 1% (plan) and from 2 to 5% (attempt) Kaplan-meier plot of survivability show that people with chronic pain die sooner. Cancer: pain is a big economic burden:
