PREVALENCE OF DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IN PERSONS WITH A CHRONIC LOW BACK PAIN
Abstract
The purpose of the study was to define and compare the prevalence of depressive frustration among random sample of the adult population complaining of long term low back pain (LBP), and the patients who have been admitted for treatment in a specialized neurologic clinic. Tests are used for definition of a degree of depression and intensity of painful sensation. Three groups of the respondents consisting of the general population older than 18 years (1061 person), patients with complaints of LBP who underwent out-patient treatment or did not (432 person), and patients with neurologic complications of a lumbar osteochondrosis admitted to hospital (207 person) were questioned. Comparative study of the received data revealed that prevalence of a chronic LBP among adult population has made 40.7 %.Prevalence of depressive frustration among the general population was 44.0 %, among those with complaints on long or constant LBP who underwent out-patient treatment or did not - 55.8 % and among those admitted to specialized clinic - 72.0 %. A degree of depression in general population correlated with sex and age and in persons with complaints on LBP - with sex and intensity of pain. In patients admitted to hospital, the degree of depression was not connected to demographic factors, duration of a pain syndrome, term of invalidity, and to a lesser degree than in outpatients it was connected to intensity of pain. It is supposed, that depression is conditioned both by behavioral factors, which are more expressed in outpatients, and the common pathogenetic mechanisms of depression and chronic pain.
About the Authors
Sergey Sergeyevich Pavlenko
Novosibirsk State Regional Clinical Hospital
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Grigory Ivanovich Fomin
Novosibirsk State Regional Clinical Hospital
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Mikhail Nikolayevich Torgashev
Research Institute of Regional Pathology and Pathomorphology, SB RAMS, Novosibirsk
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Pavlenko S.S., Fomin G.I., Torgashev M.N. PREVALENCE OF DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IN PERSONS WITH A CHRONIC LOW BACK PAIN. Russian Journal of Spine Surgery (Khirurgiya Pozvonochnika). 2004;(4):74-78. (In Russ.)
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