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| Disaggregating pain and its effect on physical functional limitations | | Author(s) | Michael J Lichtenstein, Rahul Dhanda, John E Cornell |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol 53A, no 5, September 1998 |
| Pages | pp M361-M371 |
| Keywords | Pain ; Self care capacity ; Mobility ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors sought to improve the ability to measure pain location by modifying the pain map (MPM) of the McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ). Data were obtained from 833 Mexican American and European American aged 65-79 in the San Antonio Longitudinal Study of Aging (SALSA) between 1992 and 1996. A total of 373 (46%) of subjects reported having pain in the previous week. Pain was reported in all 36 areas of the MPM, which were grouped into 7 regions of pain: head; arms; hands and wrists; trunk; back; upper leg; and lower leg. Among those with pain, its frequency, intensity and location were weakly linked with each other. Pain regions were primarily independent of each other, yet weak associations existed between 6 of the 21-pair-wise correlations between regions. Pain regions were differentially associated with individual physical functional limitations. Pain in the upper leg was associated with 8 of the 9 physical tasks. Use of the MPM clearly demonstrated that pain location is an important determinant of self-reported physical functional limitations. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990226204 A |
| Classmark | CT7: CA: C4: 3J: 7T |
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