Elliott, A. M., Burton, C. D. orcid.org/0000-0003-0233-2431 and Hannaford, P. C. (2014) Resilience does matter: evidence from a 10-year cohort record linkage study. BMJ Open, 4 (1). e003917. ISSN 2044-6055
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To examine 10-year mortality and hospital use among individuals categorised as resilient and vulnerable to the impact of chronic pain. DESIGN: A cohort record linkage study. SETTING: Grampian, Scotland. PARTICIPANTS: 5858 individuals from the Grampian Pain Cohort, established in 1996, were linked, by probability matching, with national routinely collected datasets. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: HRs for subsequent 10-year mortality and ORs/incidence rate ratios for subsequent 10-year hospital use, each with adjustment for potential confounding variables. RESULTS: 36.5% of those with high pain intensity reported a low pain-related disability (categorised resilient) and 7.1% of those reporting low pain intensity reported a high pain-related disability (categorised vulnerable). Sex, age, housing, employment and long-term limiting illness were independently associated with being vulnerable or resilient. After adjustment for these variables, individuals in the resilient group were 25% less likely to die within 10 years of the survey compared with non-resilient individuals: HR 0.75, 95% CI 0.62 to 0.91 and vulnerable individuals were 45% more likely to die than non-vulnerable individuals: HR 1.45, 95% CI 1.01 to 2.11. Resilient individuals were less likely to have had an outpatient or day-case visit for anaesthetics: OR 0.46, 95% CI 0.27 to 0.79, but no other clinical specialities. Vulnerable individuals were significantly less likely to have had any outpatient or day-case visit (OR 0.43, 0.25 to 0.75); but more likely to have had a psychiatric visit (OR 1.96, 1.06 to 3.61). No significant differences in likelihood of any inpatient visits were found. CONCLUSIONS: Resilient individuals have a better 10-year survival than non-resilient individuals indicating that resilience is a phenomenon worth researching. Further research is needed to explore who is likely to become resilient, why and how, as well as to tease out the internal and external factors that influence resilience.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2013. Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 3.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ |
Keywords: | Epidemiology; Pain Management; Primary Care |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > The Medical School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 02 May 2017 16:07 |
Last Modified: | 02 May 2017 16:07 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003917 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | BMJ Publishing Group: Open Access |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003917 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:115765 |
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