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Psychiatric Aspects of the Epidemiology of Pain

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Chronic fibromyalgia; Chronic pain disorder (DSM-IV); Chronic pain, persistent pain; Chronic widespread pain; Dysthymia, chronic depression; Fibrositis; Opioid addiction; Opioid dependency; Psychalgia (ICD-10); Somatoform pain disorder (DSM-III R and ICD-10)

Definition

Prevalence: the frequency at one point in time of a condition in a population.

Risk: a measure of the probability that a given condition will arise.

Prognosis: a measure of the probability of a favorable or unfavorable outcome of a given condition.

In epidemiology, the units of observation are generally samples of people drawn from populations of interest to the research. Epidemiology is concerned with comparing one sample with another, and inferring relevance to the larger population from which the sample is drawn. Although classically epidemiology has been understood to be the study of the characteristics of larger populations, such as in a census or transcultural studies, epidemiological methods are applied...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation, Hamilton, ON, Canada

    Eldon Tunks

  2. School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, L8N3Z5, Hamilton, ON, Canada

    Joan Crook & Robin Weir

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Center for Pain Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Gerald F. Gebhart

  2. Physiologisches Institut der, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

    Robert F. Schmidt

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Tunks, E., Crook, J., Weir, R. (2013). Psychiatric Aspects of the Epidemiology of Pain. In: Gebhart, G.F., Schmidt, R.F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pain. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28753-4_3603

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