RT Journal Article
T1 Pain extent, pain intensity, and sleep quality in adolescent and young adults
A1 De la Vega, Rocío
A1 Racine, Mélanie
A1 Tomé-Pires, Catarina
A1 Castarlenas, Elena
A1 Jensen, Mark P.
A1 Miró, Jordi
A1 Sánchez-Rodríguez, Elisabet
K1 Dolor
AB Objectives. Pain has been shown to be associated with poor sleep quality. The aim of this study was to better understand the role that pain intensity and pain extent (number of painful areas) may play in the sleep quality of young people with acute and chronic pain.Design. Cross-sectional survey. Setting and Patients. A convenience sample of adolescents and young adults with acute or chronic pain; 414 individuals ages 12 to 24 (44% with chronic pain).Methods. We performed a hierarchical regression analysis with sleep as the dependent variable and pain intensity, extent, age and pain chronicity as predictors.Results. Pain extent and pain intensity made significant and independent contributions to the prediction of sleep quality (bs50.23 [P< 0.001] and 0.14 [P< 0.01]). Young adults reported poorer sleep than adolescents (b50.13, P< 0.01). Two significant interactions emerged: age 3 intensity (b50.39, P< 0.05) and chronicity 3 intensity (b50.88, P< 0.001).Conclusions. Sleep quality in young people could be improved by teaching them strategies to better manage pain intensity and pain extent. Clinical trials to evaluate the efficacy of (and best timing for) pain interventions to improve sleep quality are warranted.
PB Pain Medicine
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36772
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36772
LA eng
NO De la Vega, R., Racine, M., Sánchez-Rodríguez, E., Tomé-Pires, C., Castarlenas, E., Jensen, M.P., Miró, J. (2016). Pain extent, pain intensity, and sleep quality in adolescent and young adults. Pain Medicine. 17(11), 1971-1977. PMID: 27296056. doi: 10.1093/pm/pnw118
NO The work of Jordi Mir o and ALGOS is supported by grants from RecerCaixa, the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO; PSI2012-32471), and the Instituci o Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avanc¸ats (ICREA-Acadèmia). Rocío de la Vega is supported from a postdoctoral fellowship provided by the Catalan Government and URV and is a trainee member of Pain in Child Health, a research training initiative of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Mélanie Racine is supported by The Earl Russell Chair in Pain Medicine, Western University, London, Ontario. Elisabet Sánchez- Rodríguez is supported by a doctoral grant provided by the Catalan Government and URV.
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