Sociodemographic Characteristics, Health Conditions, and Functional Impairment among Older Adults with Serious Mental Illness Reporting Moderate-to-Severe Pain

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• Alternative Title:
  Psychiatr Rehabil J
• Personal Author:
  Brooks, Jessica M. ; Umucu, Emre ; Huck, Garrett E. ; Fortuna, Karen ; Sánchez, Jennifer ; Chiu, Chung-Yi ; Bartels, Stephen J.
• Description:
  Objective:
  
  To compare adults aged ≥ 50 years with serious mental illness reporting moderate-to-severe pain to older adults with serious mental illness without pain with respect to sociodemographic characteristics, health conditions, and functional impairment.
  
  Methods:
  
  Secondary data analyses were conducted using baseline assessments of 183 participants recruited for the Helping Older People Experience Success (HOPES) study from three community mental health centers. The primary outcome was self-reported, non-experimentally-induced, moderate-to-severe pain (referent=no-to-mild pain). Predictor variables consisted of sociodemographic characteristics, health conditions, and functional impairment. We conducted univariable and multivariable logistic regression analyses to examine the associations between these variables.
  
  Results:
  
  Sixty-one participants (33.3%) from our sample reported pain. Pain was associated with all of the sociodemographic and health-related factors in univariable analyses. In the multivariable model, only older age, pain-related activity interference, and physical and emotional health-related social limitations were significantly associated with pain.
  
  Conclusions and Implications for Practice:
  
  The presence of moderate-to-severe pain in older adults problems above and beyond the substantial functional limitations routinely experienced by this high-risk, high-need group. Given the high rates of pre-existing conditions and persistent social impairment among these older adults, our findings suggest that pain may contribute to worse overall functional outcomes. Future research and clinical interventions focused on improving outcomes should include an evaluation of pain as a contributor to decreased functioning and assess the need for early intervention, non-pharmacological pain management, or other health promotion services in psychiatric rehabilitation.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Activities Of Daily Living Aged Aging Comorbidity Female Health Status Humans Male Mental Disorders Middle Aged Pain

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• Source:
  Psychiatr Rehabil J. 41(3):224-233
• Pubmed ID:
  30160508
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6123826
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  L30 MH114357/MH/NIMH NIH HHSUnited States/ ; T32 MH073553/MH/NIMH NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U48 DP005018/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U48DP005018/ACL/ACL HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  41
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:96ce1de05b3d6df2403b11b299edc7f91c63c46fea3cf43d33021fe3286b9f8b
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/158016/cdc_158016_DS1.pdf
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