Research Article
Episodic Cancer Pain: Patient Reporting, Prevalence, and Clinicodemographic Associations at Initial Cancer Pain Clinic Assessment
Table 7
Psychosocial assessments of participants according to their incident pain status.
| | Characteristic | Incident paina | All patients | value | | Absent n = 190 (%) | Present n = 181 (%) | Total n = 371 (%) |
| | History of chronic depression | 14 (7.4) | 8 (4.4) | 22 (5.9) | 0.229 | | History of drug or alcohol abuse | 34 (17.9) | 52 (28.7) | 86 (23.2) | 0.013 | | Positive single question screening | | Are you depressed? | 136 (71.6) | 131 (72.4) | 267 (72.0) | 0.864 | | Are you anxious? | 132 (69.5) | 121 (66.9) | 253 (68.2) | 0.588 | | Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS) | | HADS-Anxiety score > 7 | 136 (71.6) | 126 (69.6) | 262 (70.6) | 0.678 | | HADS-Depression score > 7 | 143 (75.3) | 137 (75.7) | 280 (75.5) | 0.924 | | Emotional thermometer (ET) | | ET-Distress > 3 | 100 (52.6) | 108 (59.7) | 208 (56.1) | 0.172 | | ET-anger > 3 | 113 (59.5) | 103 (56.9) | 216 (58.2) | 0.616 | | ET-help desired > 3 | 101 (53.2) | 108 (59.7) | 209 (56.3) | 0.206 |
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aStudy-defined, based on history and on BPI scores.
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