Pain in non-psychotic psychiatric patients: life events, symptomatology and personality traits.
Occurrence of pain was investigated in 73 non-psychotic psychiatric inpatients; 75% had been bothered by pain within the last 3 months and about half of these had pain every day. Pain was most frequent in patients with neurosis and personality disorder. The occurrence of pain was significantly associated with unskilled work, but was not related to experience of social stress. Patients with pain reported more anxiety and hostile feelings and had a higher degree of somatic anxiety and muscular tension, thus attaching importance to anxiety-induced muscle spasm as a pain-mediating mechanism. A specific relationship between pain and depression was not supported.
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Institute of Psychiatric Demography, Aarhus Psychiatric Hospital, Risskov, Denmark.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D010146:Pain / Q000523:psychology*; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D010556:Personality Tests; D011594:Psychometrics; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000523:psychology