Outcomes of Non-Pharmacological Nursing Interventions’ on Patients with Chronic Pain

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Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com of life and on the society [1]. According to Pain Proposal [2], a project developed to evaluate chronic pain’s impact on Europe, chronic pain affects approximately 36% of the Portuguese population with over 18 years old. It creates suffering in around 3 million individuals and has a negative influence on health, wellbeing, daily life activities and professional performance, which accounts to elevated costs of the country’s nation health system and national economy. Furthermore, this project assessed the economic effect of chronic pain in the individuals that are on labor inactivity due to chronic pain for at least 14 days per year, which resulted in costs around 290 million euros/ per year, supported by social security.