The relationship between Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and the medical treatment effect and disease period

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  • ペインクリニック初診時の心理テストの結果と治療効果, 病悩期間との関係
  • ペインクリニック ショシンジ ノ シンリ テスト ノ ケッカ ト チリョウ コウカ ビョウノウキカン ト ノ カンケイ

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Purpose: This study was performed to determine whether we could predict treatment effect and analyze disease period from their relation with Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD).<br>Methods: The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD) was evaluated at pain patient's first visit to the Pain Center at Aichi Medical University Hospital. The score was compared with the length of the delay between the onset of symptoms and patient's first visit to the Pain Center.<br>Results: Fifty patients (men=25, women=25, mean age=57.1±18.8 years)were studied, 14 herpes zoster pain, 11 lumbago and lower limb pain, 9 shoulder and neck pain, 7 neuralgia, and 9 others. The results of treatment were as follows: 10 showed excellent improvement, 15 mild improvement, 16 no change, 0 worse, and 9 unknown. There was neither a relationship between HAD and treatment results, nor a relationship between HAD and the length of delay in attending the Pain Clinic.<br>Conclusions: The results of this study may not indicate intractable pain and longer delayed visits to health care in pain patients with higher HAD.

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