The disability profile in primary care may depend on the type of care and pain aspects

• Published in: Revista de saúde pública 2024, Vol.58 (1), p.52
• Main Authors: Ferreira, Fernanda de Assis da Costa, Góes, Angela Baroni de, Casarotto, Raquel Aparecida, Fernandes, Tiótrefis Gomes, Castro, Shamyr Sulyvan de, Schmitt, Ana Carolina Basso
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Brazil - epidemiology; Cross-Sectional Studies; Disability Evaluation; Disabled Persons - statistics & numerical data; Family Health; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Musculoskeletal Pain; Musculoskeletal Pain - epidemiology; Musculoskeletal Pain - therapy; Original; Pain Measurement - statistics & numerical data; Primary Health Care; Primary Health Care - statistics & numerical data; Sociodemographic Factors; Socioeconomic Factors; Young Adult
• ISSN: 0034-8910; 1518-8787; 1518-8787
• DOI: 10.11606/s1518-8787.2024058005400

To investigate the relationship between sociodemographic factors, musculoskeletal pain and its characteristics, and the type of primary health care received with self-reported disability. This is a cross-sectional study, interviewing individuals selected from spontaneous demand for health care in two types of care: health center and family health unit. Disability was investigated using the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS) 2.0 and characteristics of intensity, frequency, duration, number of pain sites, and regions. Measures of association between predictors and disability were performed with non-parametric statistical tests, whereas non-parametric regression models were presented for pain characteristics and for the general population. In total, 2.3% of family health users and 7.2% of health center users had severe levels of disability. Health center users had more self-reported disability than family health users (p