Veterans Affairs committee  There are so many ways. I'll just give an example of sleep. If you think about it, physical pain interrupts your sleep and psychological distress interrupts your sleep. When you don't sleep, you have more physical pain and you can't function. Everything is connected. We see peop

Veterans Affairs committee  I can start. I think there are a couple of important things the centre has done. One, it has funded studies specifically about sex and gender, and about how they affect chronic pain. That's been an important thing. Two, in the evidence synthesis that we've done, we've mandated

Veterans Affairs committee  I think that's one of the interesting things in our study. We used a complicated statistical modelling to show what the pathways are between different things. We showed that there was a pathway from experiencing sexual discrimination or assault and distress and there was a pathwa

Veterans Affairs committee  The one study that we just reported on has implications for us. We know that it confirms what we believed—that there's a link between psychological distress caused from sexual discrimination and the experience of chronic pain—but it also means that when people.... The first recom

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you. I will echo the thoughts of thanks for sharing the work. I am actually one of the researchers funded by the Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence to investigate issues in chronic pain. I focus on understanding the impact of sexual harassment, using a recent confidential s