Measuring resilience to chronic pain in population surveys using hair cortisol
The associations demonstrated across two longitudinal population surveys from the UK indicate that quantile regression analysis of hair cortisol may be useful in identifying individuals resilient to chronic pain. Hair cortisol is a promising biomarker that can be measured in population studies to quantify the stress response and resilience to future mental ill-health.
Authors
- Tarani Chandola (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1864-3413)
- Stephanie Cahill (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2075-5510)
- Meena Kumari (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9716-1035)
- Wanying Ling (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1392-1584)
Institutions
- University of Essex (GB)
- Twitter (United States) (US)
- University of Manchester (GB)
- Institute for Social and Economic Research (GB)
- University of Hong Kong (HK)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Psychological Medicine
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291725101049
- Primary Topic
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00