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The association between baseline persistent pain and weight change in patients attending a specialist weight management service

Ryan, CG, Vijayaraman, A, Denny, V, Ogier, A, Ells, L, Wellburn, S, Cooper, L, Martin, DJ and Atkinson, G (2017) The association between baseline persistent pain and weight change in patients attending a specialist weight management service. PLoS One, 12 (6). ISSN 1932-6203

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Abstract

Objective To quantify the influence of baseline pain levels on weight change at one-year follow-up in patients attending a National Health Service specialist weight management programme.
Methods We compared one-year follow-up weight (body mass) change between patient sub-groups of none-to-mild, moderate, and severe pain at baseline. A mean sub-group difference in weight change of 5kg was considered clinically relevant.
Results Of the 141 complete cases, n = 43 (30.5%) reported none-to-mild pain, n = 44 (31.2%) reported moderate pain, and n = 54 (38.3%) reported severe pain. Covariate-adjusted mean weight loss (95%CI) was similar for those with none-to-mild (8.1kg (4.2 to 12.0kg)) and moderate pain (8.3kg (4.9 to 11.7kg). The mean weight loss of 3.0kg (-0.4 to 6.4kg) for the severe pain group was 5.1kg (-0.6 to 10.7, p = 0.08) lower than the none-to-mild pain group and 5.3kg (0.4 to 10.2kg, p = 0.03) lower than the moderate pain group.
Conclusions Patients with severe pain upon entry to a specialist weight management service in England achieve a smaller mean weight loss at one-year follow-up than those with none-to-moderate pain. The magnitude of the difference in mean weight loss was clinically relevant, highlighting the importance of addressing severe persistent pain in obese patients undertaking weight management programmes.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Science & Technology; Multidisciplinary Sciences; Science & Technology - Other Topics; LOW-BACK-PAIN; GENERAL-POPULATION; OBESITY; SF-36; OSTEOARTHRITIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCALE; LIFE
Subjects: R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC1200 Sports Medicine
Divisions: Sport & Exercise Sciences
Publisher: Public Library of Science
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Date Deposited: 07 Apr 2022 11:20
Last Modified: 07 Apr 2022 11:30
DOI or ID number: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179227
URI: https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/16620
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