Pain practice : the official journal of World Institute of Pain
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Few studies have examined the relationship between nonmalignant chronic pain (NMCP) and suicide death, and even fewer have specifically explored what role sleep disturbance might play in the association between NMCP and suicide death. ⋯ There is a need for clinicians to screen for both sleep disturbance and suicidal ideation in NMCP patients and for health systems to implement more widespread behavioral treatments that address comorbid sleep problems and NMCP.
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Pain education is an important part of multidisciplinary management of chronic pain. The characteristics of people likely to have more improvement in pain biology knowledge following pain education are unknown. ⋯ This study suggests that, of those patients with chronic pain who choose to attend pain education, more educated patients are more likely to improve their pain biology knowledge after a pain education session.