Pain complaints as risk factor for mental distress: a three-year follow-up study
| Autor: | Espen Bjertness, Kristian Green, Magne Thoresen, Lars Lien |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Pain Young Adult Mental distress Sex Factors Risk Factors Developmental and Educational Psychology Child and adolescent psychiatry Humans Medicine Family Longitudinal Studies Risk factor Psychiatry Association (psychology) business.industry Mental Disorders Confounding Follow up studies General Medicine Mental health Psychiatry and Mental health Cross-Sectional Studies Logistic Models Socioeconomic Factors Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Physical therapy Female Pain catastrophizing business Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 20:509-516 |
| ISSN: | 1435-165X 1018-8827 |
| Popis: | The main aim of this study was to investigate the effect of pain complaints at baseline and mental distress at follow-up. We included adolescents from two longitudinal studies of 18/19 years of age with two corresponding cross-sectional baseline studies at age 15/16. A total of 5750 were invited for the baseline study, and we have 3-year follow-up data for 3316 (57.8% follow-up rate). All information is based on self-report. The questions of pain are asking for severe pain the past year. Mental distress is measured by Hopkins Symptoms Check List (HSCL-10). Number of pain sites increased among girls and decreased among boys from baseline to follow-up. There was a cross-sectional dose-response association between number of pain sites and mental distress at both time points. Also, in the follow-up study, there was dose-response relationship between numbers of pain sites at baseline and mental distress at follow-up even after controlling for possible confounding factors. We found no effect of mental distress at baseline on pain reports at follow-up. There is a strong association between pain at 15/16 years and mental distress at 18/19 years of age. Clinicians should therefore take pain complaints among adolescents seriously and be aware of comorbid and later development of mental health problems. |
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