Pain Questionnaire 2

In 2024, we launched a new questionnaire to gather further information from participants about their experiences of chronic pain which affects around 1 in 5 individuals. Chronic pain typically responds very poorly to current treatments and we need to find out more about it in order to develop more effective treatments. Alongside the detailed information already provided by participants, UK Biobank is in a unique position to collect the data needed to facilitate this work.

The questionnaire was closely modelled on our previous chronic pain questionnaire and repeated many of the questions we asked in 2019. By gathering information over two time periods, researchers will be able to look at changes that occur over time, whether pain can get worse or better, and investigate triggers, risk factors, and potential causes. However, you do not have to have completed the first pain questionnaire in order to complete this questionnaire - your answers will still provide valuable information to researchers.

If you're a UK Biobank participant, and we have an email address for you, you should receive an invitation to complete the questionnaire. You can also complete the questionnaire by logging on to the participant section of the website using your PID and personal details (if you have not shared your email address with UK Biobank or if you missed the email).

As always with UK Biobank questionnaires, responses to the questionnaire are confidential and will only be used for health-related research in the public interest.

If you require help or support with completing the questionnaire, you can find our help and support pages here:
Help page Support page

You can also call our Participant Resource Centre on 0800 0 276 276 free of charge, Monday to Friday 9am-5pm, or send us an email to ukbiobank@ukbiobank.ac.uk.