Pain management as an antidepressant: long-term resolution of pain-associated depression
- 1 March 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Pain
- Vol. 36 (3) , 335-337
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-3959(89)90093-6
Abstract
Of 100 consecutive patients admitted to a pain management program for patients without malignant disease who had chronic pain, 54 were definitely or probably depressed and 46 were not depressed by Research Diagnostic Criteria. As a result of 98% improvement of depression and low frequency (2%) of new development of depression, 98 of the original 100 patients were not depressed at the time of dismissal. This progress was maintained at long-term follow-up (average, 11.6 months): 89 of 100 patients remained non-depressed.Keywords
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