Widespread pain symptoms and psychological distress in southern Chinese with orofacial pain

Journal of Oral Rehabilitation
A S McMillanC L K Lam

Abstract

The study investigated the experience of widespread pain (WP) symptoms and psychological distress in southern Chinese with orofacial pain (OFP). A community-based, cross-sectional case-control study involving people aged 35-70 registered with the Hospital Authority/University of Hong Kong Family Medicine Clinic served as the sampling frame. People with recent OFP symptoms and a group without OFP took part. Standard questions were asked about OFP conditions in the previous month. Psychological status was evaluated through depression, and non-specific physical symptoms (NPS) scores were measured with depression and somatization sub-scales of the Symptom Checklist-90. Widespread pain was determined using body outline drawings to identify painful sites prior to a standard clinical examination. Two hundred people with OFP and 200 without OFP participated. Compared with 5.0% in the comparison group (P = 0.005), 13.5% of participants with OFP had WP (OFP/WP). Multiple OFP symptoms were more common in the OFP/WP sub-group than the OFP sub-group without WP (OFP/No WP) (P < 0.002). Sixty-three percent of the OFP/WP sub-group had moderate/severe depression scores compared with 26.0% in the OFP/No WP sub-group (P < 0.001). When pain items ...Continue Reading

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