%0 Journal Article
%T Comorbidade de sintomas ansiosos e depressivos em pacientes com dor cr£¿nica e o impacto sobre a qualidade de vida
%A Castro
%A Martha M. C.
%A Quarantini
%A Lucas C.
%A Daltro
%A Carla
%A Pires-Caldas
%A Milke
%A Koenen
%A Karestan C.
%A Kraychete
%A Durval Campos
%A Oliveira
%A Irismar R. de
%J Revista de Psiquiatria Cl¨ªnica
%D 2011
%I Universidade de S?o Paulo
%R 10.1590/S0101-60832011000400002
%X background: pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience. both chronic pain and depression result in substantial disability reduced hrqol and increased health care costs and utilization. objectives: to evaluate the strength of the association between depressive and anxiety symptoms and chronic pain, and to investigate the impact of these symptoms on health-related quality of life (hrqol) in chronic pain individuals. methods: pain was assessed by means of a visual analogue scale (vas). depressive and anxiety symptoms were assessed by the hospital anxiety and depression (had) scale. quality of life was assessed by means of the sf-36. results: four hundred patients were studied, mean age 45.6 ¡À 11.4 years and 82.8% female gender. according to had, 70% had anxiety and 60% depression symptoms. sf-36 showed mean scores < 50% for all the domains. patients with severe pain/extreme (70.4%) had a higher frequency of anxiety than those with pain selvagem/moderada (59,5%). this was a statistically significant (p = 0.027). however, the frequency of depression did not reach statistical significance when both groups were compared p = 0.109). discussion: depressive/anxiety symptoms and pain together have worse clinical outcomes than each condition alone.
%K chronic pain
%K depression
%K anxiety
%K health-related quality of life.
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