4.6 Article

Chronic pain: Evidence from the national child development study

Related references

Note: Only part of the references are listed.
Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Further decoding the mystery of American pain: The importance of work

David G. Blanchflower et al.

Summary: A recent study discovered that elderly Americans report less pain than middle-aged people, despite the expectation that pain would increase with age due to accumulated injuries, physical wear and tear, and diseases. This pattern was observed specifically among the less educated individuals, which perplexed the authors as pain generally increases with age regardless of education in other countries. However, further analysis revealed that whether a person is employed or not plays a crucial role in explaining pain up to the age of 65. The incidence of pain throughout life is similar between working Americans and those in other countries, but non-working Americans experience higher pain levels compared to non-workers elsewhere. Additionally, these patterns can also be observed within various educational groups. If age-specific employment rates from other OECD countries are applied to Americans, the age profile of pain in the United States becomes more similar to that of other OECD countries. This is mainly due to lower employment rates in the United States between the ages of 30 and 60. Overall, the study concludes that the key factor in explaining pain over the life-course is whether an individual is working or not, and once this is accounted for, the patterns are consistent across the United States and other OECD countries.

PLOS ONE (2022)

Editorial Material Medicine, General & Internal

Madam Irma

Helene Vaillant-Roussel et al.

EXERCER-LA REVUE FRANCOPHONE DE MEDECINE GENERALE (2022)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Covid and mental health in America

David G. Blanchflower et al.

Summary: Using data from the US Census Household Pulse Survey, this study tracks the mental health of over three million Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings show that anxiety, depression, and worry had two major peaks in 2020 but improved in 2021 and 2022. The study also reveals a positive association between COVID cases and worse mental health, but this effect decreases as vaccination rates rise.

PLOS ONE (2022)

Article Medicine, General & Internal

Childhood Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Adult Cardiovascular Events

David R. Jacobs et al.

Summary: This prospective cohort study found that childhood cardiovascular risk factors, including BMI, systolic blood pressure, lipid levels, and smoking, were associated with cardiovascular events in adulthood. Childhood risk factors and the change in risk score between childhood and adulthood were associated with midlife cardiovascular events.

NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE (2022)

Article Economics

The age profile of life satisfaction after age 65 in the US

Peter Hudomiet et al.

Summary: Although average life satisfaction does not decline at older ages according to cross-sectional data, it actually significantly decreases with age in the long term, a phenomenon known as the paradox of well-being. Differential mortality and non-response bias may mask the decline in life satisfaction among older individuals in cross-sectional studies.

JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION (2021)

Article Economics

Unemployment and sleep: evidence from the United States and Europe

David G. Blanchflower et al.

Summary: Research shows that the unemployed are more likely to suffer from sleep disruption, especially long-term unemployed and those who say they are unable to work. Data indicates that an increase in the unemployment rate leads to an increase in short sleep duration and a decrease in overall sleep duration.

ECONOMICS & HUMAN BIOLOGY (2021)

Article Economics

Unhappiness and age

David G. Blanchflower

JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION (2020)

Review Critical Care Medicine

Sleep Disturbance and Pain A Tale of Two Common Problems

Monica Levy Andersen et al.

CHEST (2018)

Review Psychiatry

Pain and Depression: A Systematic Review

Waguih William IsHak et al.

HARVARD REVIEW OF PSYCHIATRY (2018)

Article Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Health and unemployment: 14 years of follow-up on job loss in the Norwegian HUNT Study

Silje L. Kaspersen et al.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH (2016)

Article Medicine, General & Internal

Subjective wellbeing, health, and ageing

Andrew Steptoe et al.

LANCET (2015)

Article Rehabilitation

Rates and Correlates of Unemployment Across Four Common Chronic Pain Diagnostic Categories

Hili Giladi et al.

JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL REHABILITATION (2015)

Article Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

The effect of chronic pain on life satisfaction: Evidence from Australian data

Paul McNamee et al.

SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE (2014)

Article Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine

Combining ibuprofen and acetaminophen for acute pain management after third-molar extractions Translating clinical research to dental practice

Paul A. Moore et al.

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION (2013)

Article Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Health status and health behaviour as predictors of the occurrence of unemployment and prolonged unemployment

P. Virtanen et al.

PUBLIC HEALTH (2013)

Article Clinical Neurology

Chronic pain: One year prevalence and associated characteristics (the HUNT pain study)

Tormod Landmark et al.

SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF PAIN (2013)

Article Clinical Neurology

Diet, lifestyle and chronic widespread pain: Results from the 1958 British Birth Cohort Study

Elizabeth G. VanDenKerkhof et al.

PAIN RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT (2011)

Article Anesthesiology

Severe chronic pain is associated with increased 10 year mortality. A cohort record linkage study

Nicola Torrance et al.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PAIN (2010)

Article Clinical Neurology

The Prevalence of Chronic Pain in United States Adults Results of an Internet-Based Survey

Catherine B. Johannes et al.

JOURNAL OF PAIN (2010)

Article Anesthesiology

Chronic pain reconsidered

Michael Von Korff et al.

Article Anesthesiology

Is all chronic pain the same? A 25-year follow-up study

P Croft et al.

Article Anesthesiology

Does chronic pain predict future psychological distress?

J McBeth et al.