Pain Awareness Month has concluded and submissions to My 3 Words are now closed.
At the end of September, we had received 243 total words submitted comprising 154 unique words. Of these, the most common words were “debilitating”, “exhausting” and “relentless”. Besides English, we also received submissions in Doric, German, Punjabi, Scots, Scots Gaelic, Urdu and Welsh. You can see the final word cloud below:
We have created a short video which shows the development of our word cloud over the month:
Thank you to everyone who contributed to our work over the past month. We have compiled a playlist of all 13 of our My 3 Words videos which you can watch below:
Don’t worry if you missed out on My 3 Words – you can still participate in our UK National Pain Survey. Read more about the pain survey in our previous blog post and take part by visiting https://uod.ac.uk/uk-national-pain-survey-24.
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The Alleviate Pain Data Hub is a £2M collaborative project funded by a consortium of funders including Versus Arthritis and the UK Medical Research Council. The project is led by the University of Dundee and involves partners from across the UK. Alleviate is one of nine HDR UK Health Data Research Hubs.