Emotional state versus quality of life of patients with chronic neuropathic pain
Journal Title: Postępy Nauk Medycznych - Year 2013, Vol 26, Issue 10
Abstract
Introduction. Chronic neuropathic pain is a serious in medicine, primarily due to a significant degree of intensity of pain and resistance to traditional treatment, which affects the functioning of the physical, psychological, human’s social function and creates his quality of life.Aim. The purpose of the work was to the relationship between pain perception of the patient’s psychological condition with neuropathic pain and the chronic of back pain, under of the stationary care.Material and methods. Hundred-sixty patients with chronic pain, the study comprised patients of both sexes, and their age range from 25-85 years. Tested patients were divided into two groups. The first group of BN (n = 100), included patients with pain syndrome, such as: cranial neuralgia symptoms, peripheral neuropathies, complex regional pain syndrome. The second research group (PBK), included patients with chronic pain of back, the number to 60. Assessment of the state of emotional using the scale of the HADS-M. However, the quality of life and individual domains were assessed using the scale of the WHOQOL-BREF.Results. Analysis of the harvested material of its own, has confirmed the impact of emotional state on the quality of life, the overall perception of the health, quality of life and its various dimensions of hospitalized patients.Conclusions. Own research, confirms the equivalence of the patient’s psychological condition in modulation level of pain and quality of life.
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Iwona Repka, Jerzy Wordliczek
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