A Preliminary Model of Physical Pain among community-dwelling multiethnic older women

This is the latest NIH-funded grant of Prof. Lagana'. This research (in progress until 2019) will clarify factors related to a neglected research area, pain in non-clinical samples of older women. Its findings could be used to train health providers to decrease their implicit racial biases and increase their cultural competence skills when dealing with multiethnic older women in pain. They could also lay the foundation for the development of effective pain prevention and management programs tailored to specific ethnic groups living with high levels of pain. If successful, these future interventions could potentially translate into fewer doctor visits and a corresponding decrease in medical spending in the U.S.