%0 Journal Article
%T Psychological Aspects and Quality of Life in Chronic Pain
%A Antonella Paladini
%A Athina Vadalouka
%A Giustino Varrassi
%A Panagiotis Zis
%J Archive of "Pain Research & Management".
%D 2019
%R 10.1155/2019/8346161
%X Pain, if not the worst, is one of the worst symptoms that a patient experiences and has a detrimental effect on the patients' quality of life [1]. Chronic pain, usually defined as lasting for a period of more than 3£¿months, is prevalent in a variety of diseases including peripheral neuropathy [2¨C8], neurodegenerative diseases [9, 10], and cancer [11]. Presence of chronic pain has an independent additional burden to patients' mental health, increasing significantly the risk of depression [12]. Successful management of pain, with both pharmacological and nonpharmacological approaches, can improve the quality of life and ameliorate patients' mental health status [13¨C18]
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6594264/