What role does AGE play in PAIN RESEARCH?

Aging plays at least two crucial roles in pain research. First, age is a key individual factor guiding personalized pain management. Second, age-related physiological changes—though not fully elucidated—provide insights into the mechanisms of pain and nociception and their potential disruption. Here, aging refers not only to the pain experiences of older adults but also to processes spanning the entire life course.

The Special Interest Group (SIG) “Pain in older Persons” in combination with an expert group invites you to complete a survey.  The aim of this survey is to investigate the current practice, i.e.  how the variable “age” is taken into account by pain researchers in terms of research questions, research design, methodology, and data analysis. By sharing your perspective, you will help identify priorities and gaps in this important research field.

Who can take part?
Anybody active in conducting pain research in humans. Please feel free to circulate this survey to your colleagues and network:

What does the survey involve?
Participation involves completing an online survey. It will take approximately 10 minutes to complete and is completed anonymously – no personally identifying information is required. You are not obliged to take part and can leave the survey at any time before completing and submitting.  Incomplete datasets will be deleted.

Deadline
The deadline for completing this survey is  December 31st 2025

Questions
Any questions about this survey can be sent to Prof. Dr. Miriam Kunz (Miriam.kunz@uni-a.de) (chair elect)

We appreciate you taking the time to complete this survey!!!  Thank you so much!