Año 2016 / Volumen 23 / Número 2

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Dolor en población laboral y su interferencia en actividades de la vida diaria

Rev Soc Esp Dolor 2016; 23(2): 64-74

M. T. Vicente-Herrero1, A. A. López-González2, M. V. Ramírez Iñiguez de la Torre3, L. M. Capdevila García4, M. J. Terradillos García5 y E. Aguilar Jiménez6 1Doctora en Medicina. Especialista en Medicina del Trabajo. Servicio de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales. Grupo Correos-Valencia. 2Doctor en Medicina. Especialista en Medicina del Trabajo Servicio de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales IBSALUT. Islas Baleares. 3Especialista en Medicina del Trabajo. Servicio de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales. Grupo Correos-Albacete. 4Doctora en Medicina. Especialista en Medicina del Trabajo. Servicio de Prevención Mancomunado. MAPFRE. Valencia. 5Doctora en Medicina. Especialista en Medicina del Trabajo. INSS-Madrid. 6Especialista en Medicina del Trabajo. INSS-Valencia

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Introduction: Pain is subjective feeling modulated by previ- ous experience and emotional state of the affected that it is a complex objective to assess subjectively, so different scales and tools are used. Objective of this study is to assess the effect on quality of life of pain in a working population, by quantifying and establishing the impact involving variables such as age, gender and type of work performed.

Material and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conduct- ed on a sample of 1,080 workers, aged between 18 and 65 years, during periodic checkups to monitor the health service sector firms in Spain. Are assessed by questionnaire BPI reduced, autocomplete by the worker, the effects of pain in different areas of the individual (general activity, mood, walking ability, normal work, relations with other people, sleep and enjoyment of life), scoring from 0 to 10. It was used to calculate the various tests SPSS 20.0.

Results: Women show greater interference in ADL (activity daily life) than men, although in both sexes the biggest inter- ference regards the work. ADL interference in both genders, increases with age, although women have higher values.

With regard to the work performed, the values are higher in non-manual workers (white collar) but, applying the Bonferroni correction is observed that there is only statistically significant difference in mood, relationships, sleep and looking forward to the lifetime.

Women have higher values in areas not related to physical activity, while more physical variables except walk component not show differences in both genders.

Conclusions: The results of this study show that pain inter- feres with ADL gender differences, increasingly so in relation to age and specific jobs, which can influence the planning and preventive care within a selective concept that considers the differences found.

Key words: Impact and burden of chronic pain, workplace, quality of life, occupational medicine, occupational health.

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