Clinical Characteristics, Patient-Reported Outcomes, and Previous Therapeutic Management of Patients with Uncontrolled Neuropathic Pain Referred to Pain Clinics

Table 8

Depression, anxiety, and sleep.

Characteristic	Overall; 𝑁=728	Primary care; 𝑁=118	Traumatology; 𝑁=242	Neurology; 𝑁=56	Neurosurgery; 𝑁=58	Rehabilitation; 𝑁=36	Rheumatology; 𝑁=32	Other surgeries; 𝑁=62	Other specialties; 𝑁=102
HADS-depression (0–21)
mean ± SD	10.7±4.6	10.2±4.5	10.8±4.2	10.5±4.7	10.8±4.8	10.5±4.6	12.5±4.3	9.2±5.6	11.3±5.1
Clinical depression, %	53.0	48.1	55.0	53.8	53.8	52.9	71.4	41.5	54.8
HADS-anxiety (0–21)
mean ± SD	9.7±4.2	9.0±4.0	9.8±3.8	9.9±4.3	9.4±4.4	9.8±4.5	11.0±3.8	9.9±5.0	9.4±4.6
Clinical anxiety, %	43.1%	32.4	45.4	44.2	34.6	51.4	63.3	43.4	43.5
MOS-Sleep, mean ± SD
Summary index (0–100)	47.8±19.1	43.5±19.2	48.8±18.5	50.0±20.9	49.0±21.1	45.4±17.7	56.0±12.1	45.4±18.9	46.1±20.0
Sleep disturbance (0–100)	51.8±23.1	47.7±23.1	53.8±22.3	51.6±24.7	52.1±26.1	48.2±24.7	63.1±15.8	49.1±22.5	49.7±23.4
Snoring (0–100)	38.1±30.4	33.3±28.0	37.0±30.5	37.1±28.9	32.9±28.8	44.1±28.2	39.3±33.2	40.4±29.9	43.3±34.7
Shortness of breath (0–100)	24.4±25.8	22.7±26.1	24.9±24.8	28.9±29.8	22.7±27.2	25.1±23.4	27.6±27.0	20.0±23.1	23.6±27.5
Adequacy of sleep (100–0)	37.1±27.5	43.7±28.7	36.2±26.5	35.8±28.5	34.4±29.0	39.1±24.4	28.6±21.8	36.0±28.3	38.6±29.1
Amount of sleep, hours	5.6±1.7	6.0±2.5	5.4±1.4	5.7±1.68	5.8±1.5	5.7±1.5	5.1±1.0	5.5±1.70	5.6±1.7
Daytime somnolence (0–100)	39.5±19.8	38.6±18.0	38.7±19.9	47.2±21.7	38.7±20.5	37.6±20.7	43.1±17.9	34.1±18.2	40.7±21.1

HADS: Hospital and Anxiety Depression Scale; MOS-Sleep: the Medical Outcomes Study Sleep Scale; SD: standard deviation.