[Psychological aspects due to chronic pain].
Chronic pain is a persistent pain which continues to afflict a patient despite treatment of the causes which originated that pain and which interferes in the normal everyday family and working life of that patient, developing at times into his/her only problem and conditioning his/her life and that of his/her family and acquaintances. Chronic pain is a worldwide disorder and it affects 23.4% of the population in Spain.
Rius Llorens
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Clínica del Dolor, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona.
D002908:Chronic Disease; D003071:Cognition; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D010146:Pain / Q000523:psychology*