How do people ease their pain? A population-based study

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• 作者：Juha H.O. Turunen ; Pekka T. Mä ; ntyselkä ; Esko A. Kumpusalo ; Riitta S. Ahonen
• 关键词：Pain ; treatment ; population ; exercise
• 刊名：The Journal of Pain
• 出版年：2004
• 出版时间：November 2004
• 年：2004
• 卷：5
• 期：9
• 页码：498-504
• 全文大小：94 K

文摘

We investigated how a general population treat their pain and determined factors affecting use of different pain management strategies. From the respondents of a cross-sectional postal survey we selected those who had experienced pain during the past 7 days (n = 3641) and analyzed how they had tried to manage their pain during the past 6 months. The most common pain management strategies were use of over-the-counter medicines (53 % of 3641 respondents), physical exercise (52 % ), prescription medicines (35 % ), and visiting a physician (33 % ). The location of pain was related to which pain management strategy was chosen. Use of multiple (>4) treatments was related to prolonged pain, having several (>3) painful locations, high intensity and frequency of pain.

Perspective

This study indicates that people with pain are active in trying different treatments. Self-care strategies, especially over-the-counter medicines and physical exercise, are common ways to manage pain at the population level.