The XLII Annual Meeting of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology (SEE) and XIC Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Epidemiologia (APE) was held in Cadiz from 10 to 13 September 2024. In this meeting we have met again with colleagues to share the latest research in Epidemiology, being of special interest...
The European Journal of Pain publishes our first study derived from the 2022 Chronic Pain Barometer in Spain.
The work titled “Prevalence and epidemiological characteristics of chronic pain in the Spanish population. Results from the Pain Barometer” (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejp.4705) has been published in the European Journal of Pain. This work, developed within the framework of the 2022 Chronic Pain Barometer in Spain, is the result of collaboration between the...
The Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation publishes our article on the Pictographic Pain Interference Questionnaire
The article titled “Psychometric Properties of the Pictorial Pain Interference Questionnaire for Assessing Functional Interference in Chronic Low Back Pain” has been recently published by the international journal Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. This would be the third article of the doctoral thesis of our colleague Marta Moreno, giving...
We Participated in the SED Congress León 2024
The XX Congress of the Spanish Pain Society (SED) took place last May, from Wednesday the 29th to Friday the 31st, at the Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones in the city of León. During this event, national and international experts, as well as young talents, gathered to share recent progress...
Marta Moreno returns from her international stay at the University of Cork
Our colleague and researcher Marta Moreno is back at the Pain Observatory after her international stay at the University of Cork, Ireland. From January to April, Marta has been under the supervision of Dr. Joseph McVeigh, Head of Discipline in Physiotherapy with a wide experience in the research of new...
Juan Antonio Péculo’s thesis, directed by Dr. Inmaculada Failde, awarded the Cum Laude distinction
On March 13, 2024, Juan Antonio Péculo Carrasco successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled "Factors related to the perception of safety in assistance and transfers of mobile emergency teams in urgent or emergent care demands," earning a Cum Laude distinction. Dr. Inmaculada Failde Martínez, director of the Pain Observatory, led...
How male and female identities impact on pain
On 5 March 2024 the presentation of the White Paper on Health and Gender took place in the Spanish Congress of Deputies. This project has been an initiative led jointly by the Health Observatory and the Communication Study. According to the document itself, this White Paper "aims to awaken reflection...
What are the main differences in chronic pain between men and women?
Last Friday March 1 took place in Barcelona the conference "Chronic Pain. Analysis of how Sex and Gender interact". The event was held at the Acadèmie de Ciències Mèdiques i de la Salut de Catalunya i de Balears in Barcelona and was organized by the Societat Catalana de Dolor and...
Professor Fabiana de Souza Orlandi joins the Pain Observatory team
For the next three months, the Pain Observatory team will have the pleasure of having the presence of Fabiana de Souza Orlandi, Associate Professor of the Department of Gerontology at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) and Full Professor of the Graduate Program (Masters and PhD) in Nursing and...
More than 27% of the population in Catalonia suffers from chronic pain, the third community at the national level
On February 1, the 'Pain Forum' took place in Catalonia. An event organized by the Catalan Pain Society, with the collaboration of Grünenthal and the Acadèmia de Ciències Mèdiques i de la Salut de Catalunya i de Balears in Barcelona, which brought together numerous patient associations, scientific societies, as well...