This video was selected as part of the scientific popularization competition “Highlight on the next generation 2021” organized by the QPRN. In this video, students from the Quebec Network of Junior Pain Investigators (QNJPI) present their research project.
Pain is a universal phenomenon. In Canada, one in five people suffer from chronic pain. In the literature, many studies assess the impact that chronic pain has on the quality of life of those affected, but to date no study has yet looked at the opposite question. The objective of this study is therefore to verify whether the quality of life of an individual preceding an episode of acute pain would make it possible to identify those people who are at greater risk of developing chronic pain. My hypothesis is that patients with a good quality of life preceding their acute pain will be less likely to develop chronicization of their initial pain. Using the SF-12 Quality of Life Questionnaire, we assess the physical and mental components that account for almost 80% of it alone. In order to answer the hypothesis, a comparison was first made between the socio-demographic data of the patients who participated until the end of the study and those of the patients who dropped out along the way. Subsequently, the physical component was compared with the mental component between patients who developed chronic pain versus those who did not. And then, statistical analyzes made it possible to predict the risks of pain chronicization depending on the quality of life preceding the patient’s initial pain.