Mental pain as a global person-centered outcome measure

Autor: Silvia Benemei, Francesco De Cesaris, Fiammetta Cosci, Giovanni Mansueto, Tom Sensky, Alberto Chiarugi
Přispěvatelé: Psychiatrie & Neuropsychologie, RS: MHeNs - R2 - Mental Health
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Cns Spectrums, 27(5):1092852921000699, 652-658. Cambridge University Press
ISSN: 1092-8529
DOI: 10.1017/s1092852921000699
Popis: BackgroundMental pain has been proposed as a global person-centered outcome measure. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to test an essential requisite of such a measure, namely that mental pain incorporates independent contributions from a range of discrete but disparate outcome measures.MethodsTwo hundred migraine patients were assessed concerning migraine disability, psychosomatic syndromes, mental pain, depression, anxiety, and psychosocial dimensions. General linear models were tested to verify which measures would individually make unique contributions to overall mental pain.ResultsThe final model, accounting for 44% of variance, identified that higher mental pain was associated with more severe depressive symptoms, higher migraine disability, lower well-being, and poorer quality of life.ConclusionIn this sample, mental pain was shown to behave as expected of a global outcome measure, since multiple measures of symptomatology and quality of life showed modest but significant bivariate correlations with mental pain and some of these measures individually made unique contributions to overall mental pain.
Databáze: OpenAIRE