one thing
that presents a major public health challenge across europe
an estimated one in five adults in your country suffers from chronic pain
it's a condition the can have a devastating in practical applications quality of life
many or risk of suffering from depression anxiety stress and sleep disturbance
whilst relationships with low ones can be adversely affected
the financial impact is also significant with a cost to the european economy estimated out
at least three hundred million euros
in the context of this considerable public health impact probably can't positions have an important
role to play
in improving the treatment and management of chronic pain still have a better patient outcomes
today and estimated ninety percent of patients with chronic pain all managed in primary care
patients with chronic pain console the doctors approximately five times more frequently
then patience with i'll such pine
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stance if and regular exposure to the needs of chronic pain patients
it could be assumed the primary care physicians would be confident and proficient in its
management but in practice
this is not always the case
at least forty percent of patients with chronic pain treated in a routine practise setting
do not achieve adequate pain relief
which suggests that chronic pain management presents a fast challenge
to many primary care positions so
wise is the case
previous studies the primary care physicians in north america reported considerable frustration with the management
of chronic pain
the identify a number of challenges
but
is there a similar situation in europe
this new study aimed to specifically understand the challenges of pain management in probably gonna
across your forming an evidence base for future initiatives
a detailed questionnaire was developed for probably compositions to complete a line across thirteen countries
focusing particularly on pain assessment a pure therapy and educational needs
just over thirteen hundred positions completed the questionnaire
approximately a hundred per country
key findings from the study indicated that the vast majority eighty four percent
a primary care physicians a c chronic normally campaign to be one of the most
challenging conditions to treat
less than half forty eight percent use pain assessment tools and eighty one percent of
those interviewed
consider chronic pain and its impact on quality of life to be on their assessed
in primary care
primary care physicians will less confident
about describing strong appeal it for chronic pain
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and the most eighty four percent consider their initial training on chronic pain not comprehensive
enough
eighty nine percent recognizing and need for more educational this topic
seventy two percent of the positions questions fell universal guidelines for the management of chronic
pain when needed
and seventy nine percent
fill the management of chronic pain should be higher the government's agenda
overall the important study finding is that the treatment of management of chronic pain is
a significant challenge of primary care physicians
there is identified
the need to be addressed with additional training the only use the pain assessment tools
and the lack of confidence in the use of a pure therapy
in addition guidelines on chronic normal ligament pain management in primary care would be welcomed
one most positions
a more it's probably care and to separate the insights on this study will provide
the basis for future initiatives
to support improve probably can management of chronic pain and automatically but the patient outcomes