Childhood hospitalization and chronic intractable pain in adults: a controlled retrospective study.
Three groups of patients have been studied in order to elucidate the relationship between childhood hospitalization and chronic intractable pain in adults. The groups were: patients referred to a pain clinic, psychiatric patients with a depressive illness, and patients attending a rheumatology clinic. The findings suggest that early hospitalization is related to the genesis of both depressive illness and intractable pain: in the former occurring in the preschool years and in the latter, during school age. The significance of these relationships is discussed.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002673:Child, Hospitalized / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008875:Middle Aged; D010148:Intractable Pain / Q000523:psychology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012216:Rheumatic Diseases / Q000523:psychology