| Seq #288 | Saturday, 12 March 2005 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9:00 AM-11:00 AM Baltimore Convention Center 339, Symposium - Group/Division Sponsored | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Longitudinal Studies of Orofacial Pain: Challenges and New Findings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sponsored by: Behavioral Sciences, Neuroscience / TMJ, International RDC-TMD consortium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description: Although hundreds of epidemiological studies of orofacial pain have been published, only a handful have studied the condition longitudinally. Some of the first larger scale cohort studies of chronic pain are in the early stages of analysis, and important new methodological and statistical challenges have arisen. This symposium will first review the uses and types of epidemiologic study designs, review what work has previously been done, show data from other musculoskeletal pain cohort studies, show early data from two large cohort studies of orofacial pain, list some of the problems encountered with these studies and potential solutions, and finally discuss some of the methodological and statistical aspects of conducting these studies. For example, how should the incidence of new orofacial pain be interpreted when the condition is transient and recurring? The symposium is aimed at general epidemiologic and scientific investigators, along with orofacial pain clinicians and researchers. Attendees will become informed of the newest and ongoing research in epidemiological longitudinal studies of orofacial pain, and their unique challenging aspects | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairperson: M. DRANGSHOLT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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