Chronic musculoskeletal pain in Primary Health Care users in small municipalities

The aim of this study was to verify the presence of chronic musculoskeletal pain and their associated factors, as well as aspects related to treatment in Primary Health Care users in six small cities in the state of Paraná. A cross-sectional, study was carried out with samples of 1,878 users of Primary Health Care in six municipalities with less than 20,000 inhabitants in the state of Paraná. Was identify users with chronic musculoskeletal pain. To analysis which were obtained using Poisson regression with robust variance. The prevalence of chronic pain was 55.8%, there was a higher prevalence among women, among the lower level of education, among those who had a negative self-perception of health and among users who reported the following diagnoses: hypertension, diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, rheumatic diseases, and depression and among the highest age groups. Among the subjects with chronic pain, most reported that it was of moderate or intense intensity (84.9%) and that the pain moderately or extremely affected the performance of daily activities (72.7%). The lumbar region was indicated as the most frequent (22.5%). Regarding treatment, the majority (57.1%) reported undergoing only pharmacological treatment and 15.8% carried out pharmacological treatment and non-pharmacological treatment.