PSYC 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Neuropathic Pain, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Chronic Pain
10 Dec 2016
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Prevalence of back pain in the uk: uk has about 60-65 million people, the population prevalence is about 16. 5 million. Instead of survey of patients, survey of physicians. They have done something prescribed something or performed some sort of procedure. In patients: how many people are hospitalized, very careful record of this. Which is the right number: they are all as accurate as they can be (given the method in which this data was collected) You can make it seem like a big or small problem. Looking at the results of nine studies that all attempted to come up with the prevalence of headaches and/or migraines. The numbers are so different because the questions were worded very differently (refer to table: e. g. , the age range. If you believe that migraines come on with puberty, if you include a lot of pre- pubertal children, your numbers will be lower: e. g. , where the conduct the study.
