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Wakefield, J.R.H. 
ORCID: 0000-0001-9155-9683, Sani, F., Madhok, V., Norbury, N. and Dugard, P.,
2016.
The pain of low status: the relationship between subjective socio-economic status and analgesic prescriptions in a Scottish community sample.
Psychology, Health & Medicine, 21 (1), pp. 27-37.
ISSN 1354-8506
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Abstract
There is a strong positive relationship between objective measures of socioeconomic status (OSS) and general health. However, there is an increasing interest in the relationship between health and subjective socioeconomic status (SSS), which describes one’s perceived rank in relation to the rest of society, based on factors such as income, occupation, and education. While the relationship between SSS and general health is well2established, the relationship between SSS and pain has received little attention. Gathering both self2report questionnaire data and General Practitioner medical data from a large representative community sample in Scotland between 2012 and 2013 ( N = 1824), we investigated the relationship between SSS and prescriptions for analgesic drugs. We found that higher levels of SSS significantly predicted lower odds of participants having been prescribed at least one analgesic drug in the previous six months. We obtained this result even after controlling for OSS2related variables (education, occupational status, and geographical location) and demographic variables (age and gender). This suggests that, just like the relationship between SSS and general health, SSS has important effects on pain that go beyond the influence of OSS.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||
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| Publication Title: | Psychology, Health & Medicine | ||||
| Creators: | Wakefield, J.R.H., Sani, F., Madhok, V., Norbury, N. and Dugard, P. | ||||
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | ||||
| Place of Publication: | Abingdon | ||||
| Date: | 2016 | ||||
| Volume: | 21 | ||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||
| ISSN: | 1354-8506 | ||||
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| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||
| Record created by: | EPrints Services | ||||
| Date Added: | 09 Oct 2015 10:07 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 19 Apr 2018 13:16 | ||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/8172 |
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