Pain in Neurodegenerative Disease: Current Knowledge and Future Perspectives

Table 1

Summary of the studies on the prevalence of pain among patients with dementia living at home or in nursing homes. Features and location of pain were not available.  

	Study design	Number of patients and controls	Assessment method	Frequency of pain
Barry et al. [7]	Observational	Patients: 75; Controls: 0	Interview with patients and caregivers	Daily pain; Patients’ report: 57%; Caregivers’ report: 71%
Barry et al. [8]	Observational	Patients: 42; Controls: 0	Interview with patients, nurses, and relatives	Daily pain; Patients’ report: 38%; Nurses’ report: 69%; Relatives’ report: 75%
Hunt et al. [9]	Observational	Patients: 802; Controls: 802	Interview with patients	Bothersome pain; Patients’ report: 64%; Controls’ report: 55%
Werner et al. [10]	Observational	Patients: 141; Controls: 55	Category rating scale	Pain is experienced; Patients’ report: 21%; Patients’ and Caregivers’ report: 46%; Controls’ report: 48.1
Mäntyselkä et al. [11]	Observational	Patients: 75; Controls: 446	Interview with the patients	Any pain; Patients’ report: 43%; Controls’ report: 69%
Shega et al. [12]	Observational	Patients: 150; Controls: 0	Interview with patients and caregivers	Pain right now; Patients’ report: 32%; Caregivers’ report: 52%
Zwakhalen et al. [13]	Observational	Patients: 117; Controls: 0	Observational pain scale	Experience of pain to some extent; Nurses’ observations: 47%