Prevalence and impact of pain among older adults in the United States: Findings from the 2011 National Health and Aging Trends Study
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...Lowerextremity function was assessed with the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB), which is a widely used summary measure that incorporates standing balance, gait speed, and ability to rise from a chair [23,24]....
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...Participants who were able to complete the walking and chair-rise tasks were each scored 1 to 4 based on quartile cut-points from normative data on community-dwelling older adults [24]....
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...Interestingly, a study comparing the effects of multisite pain and pain intensity (as measured by the Brief Pain Inventory [10,11]) in 600 community-dwelling older adults showed that multisite pain and greater pain intensity were each associated with decreased SPPB scores in separate models; however, when both pain variables were entered simultaneously, only multisite pain remained significantly associated with the SPPB [17]....
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...Two screening questions from the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 were used to assess depressive symptoms (score P3) [30]....
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...All 3 measures are powerful predictors of various adverse outcomes in older adults, including hospitalization, disability, and mortality [12,61]....
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