Living with disabling chronic pain: results from a face-to-face cross-sectional population-based study.

Objectives: To estimate the prevalence of disabling chronic pain (DCP) in Spanish adults, to analyse its characteristics, to determine its multimorbidity and to identify its associated factors.

Settings: 2011 Andalusian Health Survey, a cross-sectional population survey based on face-to-face home interviews.

Participants: 6507 people aged 16 years or older and living in Andalusia, Spain.

Preferences of caregivers and patients regarding opioid analgesic use in terminal care.

Context: Patients and caregivers participate in decision-taking, and their views should be considered in the preparation of Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs). We involved them in the development of a CPG on the safe use of major opioids.

Objective: To identify the values and preferences of patients and caregivers on the use of opioids and the desired outcomes, to investigate motives for the acceptance/rejection of opioid therapy, and to evaluate their beliefs and information about these drugs.

[Motives that condition use of the health services by over-users: study with focus groups].

Background: Much is known about the profile of over-users and the cost of their demands, but their personal views about the reasons for their behaviour have been little examined.

Aims: To identify the reasons over-users give for their behaviour.

Design: Qualitative analysis of transcriptions of video-recorded focus group meetings.

Randomised trial of long term effect of acupuncture for shoulder pain.

The objective of the study is to compare the efficacy of electro-acupuncture with placebo-acupuncture for the treatment of shoulder pain. This study comprised of a prospective, randomized, placebo controlled trial, with independent evaluator set in a Public primary care clinic in Spain. The participants are patients aged from 25 to 83 years with shoulder pain.