Pain patients and who they live with: a correlational study of coresidence patterns and pain interference.

Background: Mixed associations have been observed between various aspects of 'social support' and patient pain experiences.

Objective: To explore the possibility that more basic social factors, namely coresidence patterns, may be associated with variability in patient pain experiences.

Methods: Relationships between coresidence partners and self-reported pain that interferes with activities were examined in a large representative sample of home health care patients (n=11,436; age range 18 to 107 years, mean [± SD] age 66.