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| Title |
“I feel so stupid because I can’t give a proper answer…” How older adults describe chronic pain: a qualitative study
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| Published in |
BMC Geriatrics, December 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2318-12-78 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Amanda Clarke, Geraldine Anthony, Denise Gray, Derek Jones, Paul McNamee, Patricia Schofield, Blair H Smith, Denis Martin |
| Abstract |
Over 50% of older adults experience chronic pain. Poorly managed pain threatens independent functioning, limits social activities and detrimentally affects emotional wellbeing. Yet, chronic pain is not fully understood from older adults' perspectives; subsequently, pain management in later life is not necessarily based on their priorities or needs. This paper reports a qualitative exploration of older adults' accounts of living with chronic pain, focusing on how they describe pain, with a view to informing approaches to its assessment. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 24 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 10 | 42% |
| United States | 4 | 17% |
| Australia | 3 | 13% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 6 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 19 | 79% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 13% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 4% |
| Scientists | 1 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 81 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 77 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 19 | 23% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 15% |
| Researcher | 8 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 7% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 6 | 7% |
| Other | 17 | 21% |
| Unknown | 13 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 24 | 30% |
| Social Sciences | 14 | 17% |
| Psychology | 9 | 11% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 7 | 9% |
| Arts and Humanities | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 8 | 10% |
| Unknown | 16 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 August 2018.
All research outputs
#2,286,170
of 24,172,513 outputs
Outputs from BMC Geriatrics
#575
of 3,336 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#22,654
of 288,231 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Geriatrics
#7
of 20 outputs
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