Childhood Hospitalization and Chronic Intractable Pain in Adults: A Controlled Retrospective Study
- 1 March 1983
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine
- Vol. 12 (1) , 75-84
- https://doi.org/10.2190/jr4d-66ur-c5dh-pac5
Abstract
Three groups of patients have been studied in order to elucidate the relationship between childhood hospitalization and chronic intractable pain in adults. The groups were: patients referred to a pain clinic, psychiatric patients with a depressive illness, and patients attending a rheumatology clinic. The findings suggest that early hospitalization is related to the genesis of both depressive illness and intractable pain: in the former occurring in the preschool years and in the latter, during school age. The significance of these relationships is discussed.Keywords
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