Psychiatric symptoms in patients with non-organic chronic intractable pain.
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in English
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-24883
ABSTRACT
Patients (200) with chronic intractable pain were evaluated to identify various psychiatric symptoms. Identifiable psychiatric illness, commonest being neurotic depression and anxiety states, was found in 72 per cent patients. The common symptoms reported on the present state examination (PSE) were worrying (77%), depression (40%), loss of interest (31.5%), hopelessness (16.5%), loss of weight (18%), and suicidal ideas (8%) and irritability (41.5%). Two thirds of patients had both anxiety and depression.
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IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Anxiety
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Pain, Intractable
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Adolescent
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Adult
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Depression
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Mental Disorders
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Prognostic study
Language:
English
Year:
1991
Type:
Article
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