A note on the occurence of pain in psychiatric patients from a Canadian Indian and inuit population

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Ethnic and social differences have been described in relation to the experience of pain and its expression. Patients (50) are reported from a psychiatric service in a Canadian Indian and Inuit (Eskimo) population. Thirty-two (64%) had pain of whom 19 had physical lesions. The number with pain is thought to be somewhat higher than might have been predicted from a priori considerations. Depression was the most common psychiatric diagnosis both with and without pain. The head was the most common site for pain; no patient had pain in the back as a primary complaint and only 2 had back pain as a secondary complaint.

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