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The Critical Role of Social Aspects of Pain in Advancing Health Equity in Pain Care: Past, Present, and Future

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Attendance is free for IASP members, though registration is still required. A registration fee of $25 is required for non-IASP members. To become an IASP member, you can join here. Trainee memberships are $50 per year, while regular memberships are $180 or $230 per year, depending on income level.

Produced by IASP's Social Aspects of Pain Special Interest Group (SocSIG), this seminar will examine the role of social factors as determinants of whether people will experience - and how they express - pain in everyday and healthcare settings.

This is conceptualized in a model examining risk factors for how people think, feel and sense pain, how pain influences behavior and communication with others, and how others respond. The intent is to encourage greater consideration of the social environment in understanding and controlling pain.

The presenters will review the history of social aspects of pain research that have been foundational to the development of this model, and contemporary examples of how this model is being used to promote health equity in pain research and care.

Participants include:
-- Kenneth D. Craig, OC, PhD, FCAHS, University of British Columbia, Canada
-- Katelynn Boerner, PhD, RPsych, University of British Columbia, Canada
-- Joanna L. McParland, PhD, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland (moderator)

Learning Objectives:
1) Understanding of the causal role of social determinants in the experience and expression of pain.
2) Encouraging consideration of social risk factors in efforts to prevent and control pain.
3) Appreciating how a social determinants lens can promote more equitable pain care and research.

Contributors

  • Kenneth D. Craig, OC, PhD, FCAHS

    Kenneth D. Craig, OC, PhD, FCAHS, is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Following studies at Concordia University, UBC, Purdue University, and the Oregon Health Sciences University, his academic career has been at UBC. His research has focused upon pain assessment using nonverbal methods in populations with communication limitations, including infants, young children, people with intellectual disabilities, cognitive impairments and dementias, and voluntary and automatic control in pain expression.

  • Katelynn Boerner, PhD, RPsych

    Katelynn Boerner, PhD, RPsych is a Canadian Child Health Clinician-Scientist Program postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, under the mentorship of Dr. Tim Oberlander. Her research is focused on understanding the biopsychosocial-developmental contributions of sex and gender to pediatric pain, and harnessing this knowledge to improve clinical and research practices. With Dr. Oberlander, she co-leads the Living Lab at Home initiative, which aims to increase the accessibility of community-based pain research to children who function across the developmental spectrum. In addition to her research role, she is a registered psychologist who provides care to families through the Complex Pain Service at BC Children's Hospital, and in a small private practice.

  • Joanna McParland, PhD

    Joanna McParland, PhD, is a Reader in Health Psychology at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU), Scotland. Her research focuses on understanding the impact of social psychological processes (including social justice cognitions and resilience/flourishing) in the experience of pain in specific contexts (workplace and family context). She is also interested in using behavior change constructs (such as behavior change techniques and theoretical constructs) to understand how interventions work to promote health and work outcomes in different contexts, including the workplace and clinical contexts. She leads the Workplace Wellness Hub at GCU and is Deputy Lead of the Aging Well Research Group at GCU.

February 7, 2023
Tue 4:00 PM EST

Duration 1H 0M

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Event Support:
Gregory.Carbonetti@iasp-pain.org