Chaturvedi Santosh K
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore 560 029 India.
Pain. 1987 Jun;29(3):355-361. doi: 10.1016/0304-3959(87)90050-9.
A comparison between 102 depressed and 101 non-depressed pain patients, identified with the use of DSM-III criteria, showed that depressed patients were more often elderly and employed as compared to non-depressed patients who were significantly more often found to be younger (P less than 0.001) and were students (P less than 0.02). No other demographic differences were observed. Family psychiatric morbidity as well as family history of depressive spectrum disorders were noted in both the groups, without much difference. The relevance of classifying pain patients on the basis of their predominant psychopathology is discussed.
一项针对102名符合《精神疾病诊断与统计手册》第三版（DSM - III）标准确诊的抑郁疼痛患者和101名非抑郁疼痛患者的比较显示，与非抑郁患者相比，抑郁患者年龄更大且多为在职人员，而非抑郁患者明显更年轻（P < 0.001）且多为学生（P < 0.02）。未观察到其他人口统计学差异。两组均记录了家族精神疾病发病率以及抑郁谱系障碍的家族史，差异不大。文中讨论了根据疼痛患者的主要精神病理学特征进行分类的相关性。
