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Pain Medicine 2017
October 19-20, 2017
Volume 6, Issue 6 (Suppl)
J Pain Relief, an open access journal
ISSN: 2167-0846
October 19-20, 2017 San Francisco, USA
4
th
International Conference on
Pain Medicine
Relationship between pain, social support and socio-economic indicators in individuals with spinal cord injury
Zahra Khazaeipour
1
, Ehsan Ahmadipour
1
, Vafa Rahimi Movaghar
1
, Fereshteh Ahmadipour
1
, Alexander R Vaccaro
2
and
Babak Babakhani
1,3
1
Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
2
Thomas Jefferson University and the Rothman Institute, USA
3
Academic Teaching Hospital Nordstadt, Germany
Introduction:
Chronic pain is one of the common problems associated with spinal cord injuries (SCI), which causes many
complications. For example impairment in daily activities, low quality of life, sleep disorders, depression, anxiety, anger and poor
adjustment. The pain usually starts within the first 6 months after injury and is typically resistant to treatment. Researchers now
believe that the bio-psychosocial perspective may provide a better understanding of pain in SCI. Therefore, this study intended to
evaluate the relationship between pain and demographic, injury characteristics, socio-economic and social support in individuals
with spinal cord injury in Iran.
Materials & Methods:
The participants were 140 individuals with SCI, 72% men and 28% women, with mean age of 29.4±7.9 years,
referred to Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Research Center (BASIR), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, between 2012 and 2013.
The Persian version of the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) was used to measure the pain and the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived
Social Support (MSPSS) was used to measure social support through structured face-to-face interviews in SCI individuals.
Results:
About 50.7% complained about having pain, in which 79.3% had bilateral pain. The most common locations of pain were
lower limbs and back. The most quality of pain were described as aching and tingling (74.4%), followed by pressure, coldness and
feeling electric shock sensations. The frequency of pain in individuals with paraplegia was higher than tetraplegia, and in individuals
with incomplete was higher than complete injury. Patients with a medium level of education had the least pain compared to high
and low level of education. SCI individuals with good economic situation reported higher frequency of having pain. There was no
significant relationship between pain and social support.
Conclusion:
These findings revealed the importance of socioeconomic factors such as economic situation and educational level in
understanding chronic pain in people with SCI and provide further support for the bio-psychosocial model.
khazaeipour@tums.ac.ir z_kh14@yahoo.comJ Pain Relief 2017, 6:6 (Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2167-0846-C1-018