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Survey Reveals Impact Of Pain May Differ By Gender.(Brief Article)
2001 DEC 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- More than 25% of men and women who live with chronic pain report that this condition affected their decision to quit their job, according to the "Gender Attitudes Toward Chronic Pain" survey commissioned by Partners Against Pain and the National Women's Health Resource Center (NWHRC).
According to the U.S. National Institutes of Health, pain costs Americans more than $100 billion each year in health care costs and lost productivity. From quality of life issues to job performance and security, pain is not only physically debilitating, but also emotionally devastating.
Chronic pain affects a variety of life situations for both women and men. The survey found that 51% of women with chronic pain would give up sex for one year to live pain-free (interestingly, only 32% of men would forgo sex for that benefit). Of the women who said they are willing to do without sex, almost 40% report that the intensity of their pain is severe and some 30% say that disease, rather than sports related injury or accident, is the primary cause of their pain.
The survey of more than 1000 people revealed that women are more likely than men to experience severe pain, and do so on a more frequent basis. Despite the intensity and severity of their pain, many women remain undertreated, according to Christine Miaskowski, RN, PhD, professor, department of physiological nursing, University of California, San Francisco, and president-elect of the American Pain Society.
"Men's and women's chronic pain experiences can be attributed to the differences in their biology as well as to the perceptions and behaviors of health care professionals and a society that treats genders differently," said Miaskowski. "Women are at greater risk of experiencing chronic pain and are also more likely to receive inadequate pain treatment than men. In addition, men and women have different capacities for expressing and responding to pain."
Women are better at discussing and coping with pain than men and this behavior is reinforced by cultural expectations of roles and socialization. Not surprisingly, the survey found that women are more likely to discuss their pain than men (84% compared with 73%). Men and women will equally turn to their significant other to discuss their pain, ...
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