With his collaborators from academic institutions in the Netherlands and Switzerland, Mohanty has now generated the first national and sub-national estimates of pain prevalence, pain-related limits on daily activities, and treatment levels. Sanjay Mohanty, professor at the International Institute of Population Studies (IIPS), Mumbai, and study leader, told The Telegraph, “Pain causes distress to people and imposes costs on households and on the economy, but it hasn’t drawn as much attention in public health practice or research in India as it should have."
It ranged from 2.6 per cent in Mizoram to 22 per cent in Kerala and about 40 per cent in West Bengal. The exercise also revealed that proportion of people who curb their daily activities because they are in pain. West Bengal, Jharkhand, Puducherry, Odisha and Nagaland had the highest pain prevalence while Mizoram, Andhra Pradesh and Haryana had the lowest. Health researchers also observed unexplained differences in pain prevalence among different states. About 15 per cent of people in this bracket are in pain for five or more days a week, the publication stated.
The study, published in the research journal Pain, also found that the national average of pain prevalence in the country is 37 per cent in the 45+ age group, reported The Telegraph. India’s first country-wide pain-mapping exercise has discovered that one in three citizens, who are 45 or older, lives with pain.
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