Table 8 Description of studies on shoulder pain
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total | M | F | M | F | Total | |||||||||
Shoulder pain | Hill [88] 2010 Australia | 2004-6, (18+ yo), recruited randomly from the electronic White Pages telephone listings (the NWAH Study). Phone interview + questionnaire | 3488 | 1712 | 1776 | 81 | Ever had pain or aching in their shoulder at rest or when moving, on most days for at least a month | Self report | Life time | 65-74 | 23.7 | U | ||
75+ | 26.5 | |||||||||||||
Shoulder pain | Vogt [84] 2003 USA | 1997-8, (70-79yo), a random sample of age-eligible white Medicare beneficiaries from lists provided by the Health Care Financing Administration and all age-eligible black community residents in designated zip code areas close to the Pittsburgh, PA, and Memphis, TN, field centers (the Health ABC study). Interview + examination (home) | 3075 | 1491 | 1584 | ? | neck or shoulder pain lasting at least 1 month during the previous year | Self report | One year | 70-79 | 18.9 (17.5-20.3) | U | ||
Shoulder 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 | Three months | 65-74 | 12.6 (11.3-13.8) | 17.9 (16.5-19.4) | 15.5 (14.2-16.8) | L |
75+ | 13.1 (11.2-14.3) | 21.0 (19.5-22.4) | 18.3 (16.8-19.7) | |||||||||||
Shoulder 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 | Three months | 65-74 | 4 | U | ||
75-101 | 3 | |||||||||||||
Shoulder 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: [shoulders]?” | Self report | One week | 61+ | 50.9 | U | ||
Shoulder 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 | [Shoulder] pain during the survey | Self report | Point | 65+ | 13.2 (10.4-16.0) | 23.1 (19.6-26.6) | L | |
Shoulder /upper arm 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?’ [shoulder/upper arm, since 3 months] | Self report | Point | 65-74 | 10.3 | 19.9 | U | |
Shoulder /upper arm 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 | 33.0 | U | ||
70-79 | 28.0 | |||||||||||||
80+ | 24.9 | |||||||||||||