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Co-occurrence of chronic physical pain and psychiatric morbidity in a community sample of older people
Author(s)	Sergio Luis Blay, Sergio Baxter Andreoli, Michael E Dewey
Journal title	International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 22, no 9, September 2007
Pages	pp 902-908
Source	http://www.interscience.wiley.com
Keywords	Pain ; Depression ; Living in the community ; Brazil.
Annotation	The association of psychiatric morbidity and painful physical conditions was examined in a random sample of 7040 household residents aged 60+ in Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. The overall prevalence of pain conditions was 76%. Age-sex specific prevalence of chronic pain conditions such as back pain, joint, abdominal, chest, headaches reported by respondents ranged from 11.6% up to 51.1%. In logistic regress models, chest pain, head pain, back pain, joint pain and abdominal pain emerged as predictors of psychiatric morbidity. The odds of psychiatric morbidity were also affected by income, ethnicity, origin (rural or urban), and marital status. The association of chronic painful condition and psychiatric morbidity in late life was statistically strong in this surveyed population. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-071113214 A
Classmark	CT7: ENR: K4: 7W6
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