Making Pain Research More Inclusive: Why and How

An extensive body of research documents inequities in pain outcomes and the quality of pain care by sociodemographic and health characteristics. These include, but are not limited to, racialized group/ethnicity, age, sex and gender identity, disability status and socioeconomic position.11,34,43,59,61-63 These same characteristics affect inclusion in pain research, such that the minoritized and marginalized groups who already receive inferior pain care and are the most burdened by pain are underrepresented in studies which ultimately seek to alleviate pain.
Source: The Journal of Pain - Category: Materials Science Authors: Tags: Review Article Source Type: research