QUantifying the Impact of Chronic pain on engagement in paid worK (QUICK)

QUantifying the Impact of Chronic pain on engagement in paid worK (QUICK)

Duration: 01 June 2021 - 31 October 2024
Funder: Medical Research Council
Chief investigator: Professor Gary Macfarlane
Other UoA co-investigators: Dr Rosemary Hollick , Dr Elaine Wainwright , Professor Paul McNamee
Research co-investigator: Dr LaKrista Morton
Project coordinator: Stuart Anderson

Chronic pain has many causes and is often musculoskeletal in nature. It affects the kind of work people do and how they engage in it - from impacting how much work one can do on a day-to-day basis, to long-term career choices. However, there is currently no standard questionnaire that can fully explore and measure the many different impacts of chronic pain on people's ability to work.

Existing questionnaires assume people have one job and are contracted to work a certain number of hours every week, and do not ask about the different ways pain might affect work. We aim to develop a questionnaire that can be used to assess the many different ways in which chronic pain affects work ability, taking into account modern ways of working (such as holding several part-time jobs, having "zero hours" contracts or combining employment with self-employment). By doing this we aim to create an instrument that can be used in future studies to assess the impacts of chronic pain on working life in a variety of contexts.

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