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Psychiatric symptoms in patients with non-organic chronic intractable pain
V K Varma1, S K Chaturvedi, A Malhotra
1Department of Psychiatry, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh.
The Indian Journal of Medical Research
|February 1, 1991
Abstract:
Patients (200) with chronic intractable pain were evaluated to identify various psychiatric symptoms. Identifiable psychiatric illness, commonest being neurotic depression and anxiety states, was found in 72 per cent patients. The common symptoms reported on the present state examination (PSE) were worrying (77%), depression (40%), loss of interest (31.5%), hopelessness (16.5%), loss of weight (18%), and suicidal ideas (8%) and irritability (41.5%). Two thirds of patients had both anxiety and depression.