Pain, Depression, and Illness Behavior in a Community Sample of Active Elderly Persons
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in The Clinical Journal of Pain
- Vol. 3 (4) , 207-212
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00002508-198712000-00005
Abstract
Pain, depression, and illness behavior were investigated in a group of 56 elderly persons. Of the subjects, 76.7% reported having pain complaints. The pain group was significantly different from the pain-free group on three of the seven scales of the Illness Behavior Questionnaire. Botrh groups obtained relatively high scores on the Denial Scale, suggesting that denial was used to fend off fear of disease and death. The two groups were nondepressed on the Beck Depression Inventory.Keywords
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