First author Publ. year Country | Study design / Population / Method of collection | Sample size | Crude response rate (%) | Outcome definition | Outcome assessment method | Prevalence period | Age | Prevalence* (95% CI) | Risk of bias | |||||
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Total | M | F | M | F | Total | |||||||||
Hand pain | Keenan [73] 2006 UK | 1993, (55+ yo), a two-stage random sample from the North Yorkshire Family Health Services Authority. Postal questionnaire | 16222 | ? | ? | 86 | Any swelling, pain, or stiffness in any of their joints that lasted >6 weeks in the previous 3 months. (identified on a manikin) | Self report | 3 months | 65-74 | 14.2 (13.0-15.6) | 23.3 (21.8-24.9) | 19.2 (17.8-20.6) | L |
75+ | 11.6 (10.4-12.8) | 25.3 (23.7-26.8) | 20.6 (19.1-22.1) | |||||||||||
Hand pain | Thomas [87] 2004 UK | (50+ yo), all patients from three GPs from the North Staffordshire Primary Care Research Consortium (the NorStOP). Postal questionnaire | 7878 | ? | ? | 70 | “In the past 4 weeks have you had pain that has lasted for one day or longer in any part of your body?” [supplemented by a full body manikin] | Self report | One month | 60-69 | 25.6 | U | ||
70-79 | 20.2 | |||||||||||||
80+ | 16.9 | |||||||||||||
Wrist pain | Parsons [77] 2007 UK | 2001-3, (18+ yo), random samples from 16 Medical Research Council General Practice Research Framework practices, South East quadrant of the UK. Postal questionnaire | 2501 | 1347 | 1154 | 47 | The Chronic Pain Grade: Any ‘pain which has lasted for 3 months or longer and currently troubles respondents either all of the time or on and off' | Self report | 3 months | 65-74 | 4 | U | ||
75-101 | 3 | |||||||||||||
Wrist/hand pain | Yaron [86] 2011 Israel | 2002, 2006, 2008, (20+ yo), stratified sample drawn from a telephone database on different population sectors. Telephone interview + questionnaire | 2520 | 47% | 53% | 59-66 | The Community Oriented Program for the Control of Rheumatic Diseases core questionnaire (CCQ): “In the past 7 days have you experienced pain in any of the following sites: [hands/wrists]?” | Self report | One week | 61+ | 33.0 | U | ||
Wrist/ hand pain | Gummesson [89] 2003 Sweden | 1997, (25–74 yo), stratified randomised sample from the Swedish population register in southern Sweden. Postal questionnaire | 2466 | ? | ? | 82 | Chronic pain: ‘Where is the pain, numbness, or tingling located and since when have you had the symptoms?’ [wrist/hand, since 3 months] | Self report | Point | 65-74 | 2.1 | 14.9 | U | |
Wrist/ hand pain | Picavet [78] 2003 The Netherlands | 1998, (25+ yo), stratified random sample taken from the population register (the DMC3-study). Postal questionnaire | 3664 | 45% | 55% | 46 | [Wrist/hand] pain during the survey | Self report | Point | 65+ | 9.7 (7.3-12.1) | 22.5 (19.1-25.9) | L |