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The Relationship between Neighborhood Deprivation and Perceived Changes for Pain-Related Experiences among U.S. Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Abstract
Disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic could disproportionately affect the health of vulnerable populations, including patients experiencing persistent health conditions (i.e., chronic pain), along with populations living within deprived, lower socioeconomic areas. The current cross-sectional study characterized relationships between neighborhood deprivation and perceived changes in pain-related experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic (early-September to mid-October 2020) for adult patients (N = 97) with nonspecific chronic low back pain.