Anders Årnes
Job description
Postdoc on chronic pelvic-related pain at Occupational Health in the North, UiT's research group for occupational health. Working on the project "Chronic pelvic pain - replacing ignorance with competence. A population-based joint venture study on scope, diagnostics and burden," with primary responsibility for Work Package 3.
The project aims to conduct a comprehensive study of chronic pelvic pain to develop tools for screening and diagnostics, and to apply these to measure the prevalence and burden among gynecological patient groups. Work Package 3 will combine large, population-based datasets with information from NAV to estimate the societal burden and health-economic perspectives of chronic pelvic pain by determining how chronic pelvic pain impacts health, quality of life, well-being, and work participation/absenteeism and disability in the Norwegian population.
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Research interests
Chronic pain is among the leading causes of health and functional loss worldwide. It often occurs alongside other serious comorbidities such as mental health issues, cancer, neurological and orthopedic conditions, sleep disorders, fatigue, and more. Chronic pain can arise throughout the lifespan through complex causal mechanisms and is associated with a range of risk factors such as socioeconomic status, gender, age, work situation, cognitive function, pain sensitivity, and traumatic experiences. Nevertheless, the prevalence, causative factors, comorbid conditions, and societal consequences of chronic pain are not well understood.
My research focuses on uncovering patterns of chronic pain conditions in the population, how such conditions develop over time, how they affect and are affected by comorbid conditions, and what societal consequences they have for health, quality of life, and participation.
