title: [Chronic postoperative pain. Epidemiology and psychological risk factors].
abstract: Acute postoperative pain is a still inevitable accompaniment of surgery. Up to 50% of the patients undergoing surgery--depending on its type--develop later on chronic postoperative pain. Psychological variables as minor depression, anxiety and pain-related catastrophizing as well as full-blown mental disorders are known risk factors. The relationship between such variables and postoperative pain is likely reciprocal.
authors.affiliation: Arbeitsgruppe Physiologische Psychologie, Universität Bamberg. violeta.dimova@uni-bamberg.de
authors.forename: Violeta
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Dimova
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lautenbacher
mesh_terms: D015984:Causality; D002908:Chronic Disease; D015897:Comorbidity; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D012307:Risk Factors