Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk
Biographic Data
| ID | 217137 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Grol-Prokopczyk |
| SIGNATURE | GROL-PROKOPCZYK H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3270-637X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 125 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Early-Life War Exposure and Later-Life Chronic Pain in Vietnam: Risk, Resilience, and Timing
Life course theories predict that early-life war experiences will impact later-life health through both risk and resilience processes, which may vary by age cohort. This study uses data on older adults from the 2018 Vietnam Health and Aging Study (N = 1,826) to explore associations between early-life war experiences and later-life moderate/severe chronic pain, highlighting the role of war-related risk or protective factors and testing for heterog…
Educational Disparities in Disability in Mid- to Late-Life: How Much is Attributable to Pain
BackgroundEducational disparities in disability are substantial, but the contribution of pain remains underexplored.Research DesignUsing 2002-2018 National Health Interview Survey data, we examined the role of site-specific pain-joint, low back, neck, headache/migraine, and facial/jaw-in educational disparities in physical, cognitive, work, and social limitations, as well as activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental ADLs (IADLs). Karlson…
Why Are There So Many Ways to Measure Pain? Epistemological and Professional Challenges in Medical Standardization
Pain is a profoundly subjective phenomenon, which remains largely impenetrable to the tools of biomedicine. How, then, do pain researchers—specifically, quantitative medical researchers whose work is predicated on transforming pain into numbers—measure pain in their studies? How do they select and justify specific measures, and does this process lead to measurement standardization? This article analyzes 79 published medical studies about low back…
Beyond pain presence: The impact of multisite pain and pain interference on cognitive functioning among middle-aged and older adults
The mere presence of chronic pain may not significantly affect cognitive function, but having multi-site pain could be a risk factor for cognitive decline in later life. Addressing multi-site pain and/or pain interference in psychosocial dimensions may help protect cognitive health
Chronic pain prevalence and trends in urban, suburban, and rural areas amongAmerican adults aged 55+, 1998-2022
Does Pain Explain Trends in Disability? An Analysis of Middle-Aged and Older U.S. Adults, 2002–2018
Our research provides the first systematic, national examination of how pain is contributing to disability trends in the United States. The findings have implications for disability reduction policies and shed light on the far-reaching consequences of pain for overall population health
A Painful Reality Check? Examining the Accuracy of Subjective Survival Probabilities by Pain Interference and Depression Status
Purpose Pain and depression are linked to higher mortality risk and lower subjective survival probabilities (SSPs). We examine if SSPs for individuals with pain and depression match their actual lifespans. Methods Using data on 12,745 Health and Retirement Study respondents aged 57-89 in 2000 with follow-up through 2018, we assessed whether respondents’ SSPs were “correct,” “underestimated,” or “overestimated” relative to their lifespans. Adjuste…
Health and health behaviors in China: Anomalies in the SES-health gradient
High prevalence of behavioral risk factors across SES groups appears to damage health in much of the Chinese population, and thus attenuates social gradients in health. A broader range of cultural, historical, and political factors should be incorporated into FCT's theoretical framework, particularly in non-Western contexts
Social network change after new-onset pain among middle-aged and older European adults
Pain Trends Among American Adults, 2002–2018: Patterns, Disparities, and Correlates
Determining long-term trends in chronic pain prevalence is critical for evaluating and shaping U.S. health policies, but little research has examined such trends. This study (1) provides estimates of pain trends among U.S. adults across major population groups; (2) tests whether sociodemographic disparities in pain have widened or narrowed over time; and (3) examines socioeconomic, behavioral, psychological, and medical correlates of pain trends.…
Sociology of Chronic Pain
Chronic pain is a common, costly, and consequential health problem. However, despite some important analytic contributions, sociological research on pain has not yet coalesced into a unified subfield. We present three interrelated bodies of evidence and illustrative new empirical findings using 2010 to 2018 National Health Interview Survey data to argue that pain should have a central role in sociological investigations of health. Specifically, w…
Comparing South Korean and US self-rated health using anchoring vignettes
Trends in Pain Prevalence among Adults Aged 50 and Older across Europe, 2004 to 2015
Objectives: We examine recent trends in pain prevalence among adults aged 50+ across Europe. Methods: Data for 15 countries from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe are examined for two periods: 2004-2011 and 2013-2015. Trends are shown descriptively, using a multilevel modeling strategy controlling for covariates, and modeled on a country-specific basis. Results: Population-level pain prevalence ranges from about 30% to about …
Chronic Pain and Friendship Among Middle-Aged and Older U.S. Adults
The effects of chronic pain on later-life friendships appear to depend on pain severity, and to differ between men and women. Onset of severe pain serves as a "threat to the social self," while onset of moderate pain contributes to social network activation; both associations are significantly more pronounced among men. These findings highlight the complex associations between health and social outcomes
Racial and Other Sociodemographic Disparities in Terrorism Sting Operations
Previous research suggests a high prevalence of entrapment in post-9/11 terrorism sting operations, but it is unknown whether entrapment abuses are disproportionately targeted at specific racial/ethnic, religious, or socioeconomic groups. Drawing on Black's theory of law, symbolic threat theory, and research on stereotypes, cognitive biases, and institutional incentives, the authors hypothesize that government agents and informants will use probl…
Entrapment allegations in right-wing terrorism cases: A mixed-methods analysis
Use and Opinions of Prescription Opioids Among Older American Adults: Sociodemographic Predictors
Among older American adults, the poorest are disproportionately likely to have been exposed to prescription opioid analgesics. Wealth, rather than education, drove social class differences in mid-2000s opioid use. Opioid-related policies should take into account socioeconomic contributors to opioid use, and the needs and treatment histories of chronic pain patients
Celebrity culture and demographic change: The case of celebrity nonmarital fertility, 1974-2014
In recent years, demographers have proposed increasingly sophisticated models of cultureâ s relationship to demographic patterns and change. However, little research theorizes or empirically examines how celebrity culture might shape demographic norms, desp
Temporal trends in US counterterrorism sting operations, 1989–2014
How has the US government’s use of counterterrorism sting operations changed over the past quarter-century? Have major terrorist attacks led to more frequent sting operations and/or more frequent entrapment – and if so, have such changes been temporary or long-lasting? Have different types of terrorism provoked different reactions? This study answers these questions using a database of US terrorism prosecutions occurring between 1989 and 2014, ea…
In Pursuit of Anchoring Vignettes That Work: Evaluating Generality Versus Specificity in Vignette Texts
OBJECTIVE: Anchoring vignettes appear with growing frequency in surveys of health and aging, but little research investigates how to optimize their wording. This study experimentally tests whether mentioning specific health conditions and/or medical procedures enhances or undermines vignette validity. METHODS: Three series of general health anchoring vignettes were fielded to 2,550 respondents in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study: one mentioning n…
Promises and Pitfalls of Anchoring Vignettes in Health Survey Research
Data harmonization is a topic of growing importance to demographers, who increasingly conduct domestic or international comparative research. Many self-reported survey items cannot be directly compared across demographic groups or countries because these groups differ in how they use subjective response categories. Anchoring vignettes, already appearing in numerous surveys worldwide, promise to overcome this problem. However, many anchoring vigne…
Thai and American doctors on medical ethics: Religion, regulation, and moral reasoning across borders
Using Anchoring Vignettes to Assess Group Differences in General Self-Rated Health
This article addresses a potentially serious problem with the widely used self-rated health (SRH) survey item: that different groups have systematically different ways of using the item's response categories. Analyses based on unadjusted SRH may thus yield misleading results. The authors evaluate anchoring vignettes as a possible solution to this problem. Using vignettes specifically designed to calibrate the SRH item and data from the Wisconsin …
Using Anchoring Vignettes to Assess Group Differences in General Self-Rated Health
This article addresses a potentially serious problem with the widely used self-rated health (SRH) survey item: that different groups have systematically different ways of using the item's response categories. Analyses based on unadjusted SRH may thus yield misleading results. The authors evaluate anchoring vignettes as a possible solution to this problem. Using vignettes specifically designed to calibrate the SRH item and data from the Wisconsin …
Promises and Pitfalls of Anchoring Vignettes in Health Survey Research
Data harmonization is a topic of growing importance to demographers, who increasingly conduct domestic or international comparative research. Many self-reported survey items cannot be directly compared across demographic groups or countries because these groups differ in how they use subjective response categories. Anchoring vignettes, already appearing in numerous surveys worldwide, promise to overcome this problem. However, many anchoring vigne…
Pain Trends Among American Adults, 2002–2018: Patterns, Disparities, and Correlates
Determining long-term trends in chronic pain prevalence is critical for evaluating and shaping U.S. health policies, but little research has examined such trends. This study (1) provides estimates of pain trends among U.S. adults across major population groups; (2) tests whether sociodemographic disparities in pain have widened or narrowed over time; and (3) examines socioeconomic, behavioral, psychological, and medical correlates of pain trends.…
Sociology of Chronic Pain
Chronic pain is a common, costly, and consequential health problem. However, despite some important analytic contributions, sociological research on pain has not yet coalesced into a unified subfield. We present three interrelated bodies of evidence and illustrative new empirical findings using 2010 to 2018 National Health Interview Survey data to argue that pain should have a central role in sociological investigations of health. Specifically, w…
Trends in Pain Prevalence among Adults Aged 50 and Older across Europe, 2004 to 2015
Objectives: We examine recent trends in pain prevalence among adults aged 50+ across Europe. Methods: Data for 15 countries from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe are examined for two periods: 2004-2011 and 2013-2015. Trends are shown descriptively, using a multilevel modeling strategy controlling for covariates, and modeled on a country-specific basis. Results: Population-level pain prevalence ranges from about 30% to about …
Chronic Pain and Friendship Among Middle-Aged and Older U.S. Adults
The effects of chronic pain on later-life friendships appear to depend on pain severity, and to differ between men and women. Onset of severe pain serves as a "threat to the social self," while onset of moderate pain contributes to social network activation; both associations are significantly more pronounced among men. These findings highlight the complex associations between health and social outcomes
Racial and Other Sociodemographic Disparities in Terrorism Sting Operations
Previous research suggests a high prevalence of entrapment in post-9/11 terrorism sting operations, but it is unknown whether entrapment abuses are disproportionately targeted at specific racial/ethnic, religious, or socioeconomic groups. Drawing on Black's theory of law, symbolic threat theory, and research on stereotypes, cognitive biases, and institutional incentives, the authors hypothesize that government agents and informants will use probl…
Use and Opinions of Prescription Opioids Among Older American Adults: Sociodemographic Predictors
Among older American adults, the poorest are disproportionately likely to have been exposed to prescription opioid analgesics. Wealth, rather than education, drove social class differences in mid-2000s opioid use. Opioid-related policies should take into account socioeconomic contributors to opioid use, and the needs and treatment histories of chronic pain patients
Temporal trends in US counterterrorism sting operations, 1989–2014
How has the US government’s use of counterterrorism sting operations changed over the past quarter-century? Have major terrorist attacks led to more frequent sting operations and/or more frequent entrapment – and if so, have such changes been temporary or long-lasting? Have different types of terrorism provoked different reactions? This study answers these questions using a database of US terrorism prosecutions occurring between 1989 and 2014, ea…
Does Pain Explain Trends in Disability? An Analysis of Middle-Aged and Older U.S. Adults, 2002–2018
Our research provides the first systematic, national examination of how pain is contributing to disability trends in the United States. The findings have implications for disability reduction policies and shed light on the far-reaching consequences of pain for overall population health
Social network change after new-onset pain among middle-aged and older European adults
Entrapment allegations in right-wing terrorism cases: A mixed-methods analysis
In Pursuit of Anchoring Vignettes That Work: Evaluating Generality Versus Specificity in Vignette Texts
OBJECTIVE: Anchoring vignettes appear with growing frequency in surveys of health and aging, but little research investigates how to optimize their wording. This study experimentally tests whether mentioning specific health conditions and/or medical procedures enhances or undermines vignette validity. METHODS: Three series of general health anchoring vignettes were fielded to 2,550 respondents in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study: one mentioning n…
Thai and American doctors on medical ethics: Religion, regulation, and moral reasoning across borders
Using Anchoring Vignettes to Assess Group Differences in General Self-Rated Health
This article addresses a potentially serious problem with the widely used self-rated health (SRH) survey item: that different groups have systematically different ways of using the item's response categories. Analyses based on unadjusted SRH may thus yield misleading results. The authors evaluate anchoring vignettes as a possible solution to this problem. Using vignettes specifically designed to calibrate the SRH item and data from the Wisconsin …
Thai and American doctors on medical ethics: Religion, regulation, and moral reasoning across borders
Promises and Pitfalls of Anchoring Vignettes in Health Survey Research
Data harmonization is a topic of growing importance to demographers, who increasingly conduct domestic or international comparative research. Many self-reported survey items cannot be directly compared across demographic groups or countries because these groups differ in how they use subjective response categories. Anchoring vignettes, already appearing in numerous surveys worldwide, promise to overcome this problem. However, many anchoring vigne…
Temporal trends in US counterterrorism sting operations, 1989–2014
How has the US government’s use of counterterrorism sting operations changed over the past quarter-century? Have major terrorist attacks led to more frequent sting operations and/or more frequent entrapment – and if so, have such changes been temporary or long-lasting? Have different types of terrorism provoked different reactions? This study answers these questions using a database of US terrorism prosecutions occurring between 1989 and 2014, ea…
In Pursuit of Anchoring Vignettes That Work: Evaluating Generality Versus Specificity in Vignette Texts
OBJECTIVE: Anchoring vignettes appear with growing frequency in surveys of health and aging, but little research investigates how to optimize their wording. This study experimentally tests whether mentioning specific health conditions and/or medical procedures enhances or undermines vignette validity. METHODS: Three series of general health anchoring vignettes were fielded to 2,550 respondents in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study: one mentioning n…
Entrapment allegations in right-wing terrorism cases: A mixed-methods analysis
Use and Opinions of Prescription Opioids Among Older American Adults: Sociodemographic Predictors
Among older American adults, the poorest are disproportionately likely to have been exposed to prescription opioid analgesics. Wealth, rather than education, drove social class differences in mid-2000s opioid use. Opioid-related policies should take into account socioeconomic contributors to opioid use, and the needs and treatment histories of chronic pain patients
Celebrity culture and demographic change: The case of celebrity nonmarital fertility, 1974-2014
In recent years, demographers have proposed increasingly sophisticated models of cultureâ s relationship to demographic patterns and change. However, little research theorizes or empirically examines how celebrity culture might shape demographic norms, desp
Racial and Other Sociodemographic Disparities in Terrorism Sting Operations
Previous research suggests a high prevalence of entrapment in post-9/11 terrorism sting operations, but it is unknown whether entrapment abuses are disproportionately targeted at specific racial/ethnic, religious, or socioeconomic groups. Drawing on Black's theory of law, symbolic threat theory, and research on stereotypes, cognitive biases, and institutional incentives, the authors hypothesize that government agents and informants will use probl…
Comparing South Korean and US self-rated health using anchoring vignettes
Trends in Pain Prevalence among Adults Aged 50 and Older across Europe, 2004 to 2015
Objectives: We examine recent trends in pain prevalence among adults aged 50+ across Europe. Methods: Data for 15 countries from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe are examined for two periods: 2004-2011 and 2013-2015. Trends are shown descriptively, using a multilevel modeling strategy controlling for covariates, and modeled on a country-specific basis. Results: Population-level pain prevalence ranges from about 30% to about …
Chronic Pain and Friendship Among Middle-Aged and Older U.S. Adults
The effects of chronic pain on later-life friendships appear to depend on pain severity, and to differ between men and women. Onset of severe pain serves as a "threat to the social self," while onset of moderate pain contributes to social network activation; both associations are significantly more pronounced among men. These findings highlight the complex associations between health and social outcomes
Pain Trends Among American Adults, 2002–2018: Patterns, Disparities, and Correlates
Determining long-term trends in chronic pain prevalence is critical for evaluating and shaping U.S. health policies, but little research has examined such trends. This study (1) provides estimates of pain trends among U.S. adults across major population groups; (2) tests whether sociodemographic disparities in pain have widened or narrowed over time; and (3) examines socioeconomic, behavioral, psychological, and medical correlates of pain trends.…
Sociology of Chronic Pain
Chronic pain is a common, costly, and consequential health problem. However, despite some important analytic contributions, sociological research on pain has not yet coalesced into a unified subfield. We present three interrelated bodies of evidence and illustrative new empirical findings using 2010 to 2018 National Health Interview Survey data to argue that pain should have a central role in sociological investigations of health. Specifically, w…
Health and health behaviors in China: Anomalies in the SES-health gradient
High prevalence of behavioral risk factors across SES groups appears to damage health in much of the Chinese population, and thus attenuates social gradients in health. A broader range of cultural, historical, and political factors should be incorporated into FCT's theoretical framework, particularly in non-Western contexts
Social network change after new-onset pain among middle-aged and older European adults
Does Pain Explain Trends in Disability? An Analysis of Middle-Aged and Older U.S. Adults, 2002–2018
Our research provides the first systematic, national examination of how pain is contributing to disability trends in the United States. The findings have implications for disability reduction policies and shed light on the far-reaching consequences of pain for overall population health
A Painful Reality Check? Examining the Accuracy of Subjective Survival Probabilities by Pain Interference and Depression Status
Purpose Pain and depression are linked to higher mortality risk and lower subjective survival probabilities (SSPs). We examine if SSPs for individuals with pain and depression match their actual lifespans. Methods Using data on 12,745 Health and Retirement Study respondents aged 57-89 in 2000 with follow-up through 2018, we assessed whether respondents’ SSPs were “correct,” “underestimated,” or “overestimated” relative to their lifespans. Adjuste…
Why Are There So Many Ways to Measure Pain? Epistemological and Professional Challenges in Medical Standardization
Pain is a profoundly subjective phenomenon, which remains largely impenetrable to the tools of biomedicine. How, then, do pain researchers—specifically, quantitative medical researchers whose work is predicated on transforming pain into numbers—measure pain in their studies? How do they select and justify specific measures, and does this process lead to measurement standardization? This article analyzes 79 published medical studies about low back…
Beyond pain presence: The impact of multisite pain and pain interference on cognitive functioning among middle-aged and older adults
The mere presence of chronic pain may not significantly affect cognitive function, but having multi-site pain could be a risk factor for cognitive decline in later life. Addressing multi-site pain and/or pain interference in psychosocial dimensions may help protect cognitive health
Chronic pain prevalence and trends in urban, suburban, and rural areas amongAmerican adults aged 55+, 1998-2022
Early-Life War Exposure and Later-Life Chronic Pain in Vietnam: Risk, Resilience, and Timing
Life course theories predict that early-life war experiences will impact later-life health through both risk and resilience processes, which may vary by age cohort. This study uses data on older adults from the 2018 Vietnam Health and Aging Study (N = 1,826) to explore associations between early-life war experiences and later-life moderate/severe chronic pain, highlighting the role of war-related risk or protective factors and testing for heterog…
Educational Disparities in Disability in Mid- to Late-Life: How Much is Attributable to Pain
BackgroundEducational disparities in disability are substantial, but the contribution of pain remains underexplored.Research DesignUsing 2002-2018 National Health Interview Survey data, we examined the role of site-specific pain-joint, low back, neck, headache/migraine, and facial/jaw-in educational disparities in physical, cognitive, work, and social limitations, as well as activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental ADLs (IADLs). Karlson…
Psychology (12 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Gerontology (10 works) · Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (10 works) · Demography (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Chronic pain (5 works)