RT Journal Article
T1 Factors Associated with Suicidal Ideation in Patients with Chronic Non-Cancer Pain.
A1 Racine, Mélanie
A1 Sánchez-Rodríguez, Elisabet
A1 Galán, Santiago
A1 Tomé-Pires, Catarina
A1 Solé, Ester
A1 Jensen, Mark
A1 Nielson, Warren
A1 Miró, Jordi
A1 Moulin, Dwight
A1 Choinière, Manon
K1 Dolor crónico - Aspectos psicológicos
K1 Suicidio
K1 Depresión mental
AB Objectives: This study’s aim was to identify the most important general and pain-related risk factors of suicidal ideation in a large sample of patients with chronic non-cancer pain.Methods: A total of 728 patients with chronic non-cancer pain were recruited from the waitlists of eight multidisciplinary pain clinics across Canada. Patients were assessed using self-administered questionnaires to measure demographic, pain-related (intensity, duration, interference, sleep problems), psychological (anxiety, anger, depressive symptoms including suicidal ideation), cognitive (catastrophizing, attitudes/beliefs), and health-related quality of life variables. A hierarchical logistic regression analysis was used to identify the factors that were associated with presence/absence of suicidal ideation while controlling for depressive symptoms.Results: The results showed that being a male, longer pain duration, higher anger levels, feelings of helplessness, greater pain magnification, and being more depressed were significant independent predictor factors of suicidal ideation, while better perceived mental health was related with a lesser likelihood of suicidal ideation. Moreover, being in a relationship and believing in a medical cure for pain might be protective of suicidal ideation while being anxious may be more associated with suicidal ideation.Conclusions: These results indicate that development of suicidal ideation is more closely related to pain chronicity and certain psychosocial factors than how severe or physically incapacitating the pain is. Many of these factors could potentially be modified by early identification of suicidal ideation and developing targeted cognitive interventions for suicidal at-risk patients. Research to examine the efficacy of these interventions for reducing suicidal ideation is warranted.
PB American Academy of Pain Medicine
YR 2017
FD 2017-02-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/44925
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/44925
LA eng
NO Racine M, Sánchez-Rodríguez E, Gálan S, Tomé-Pires C, Solé E, Jensen MP, Nielson WR, Miró J, Moulin DE, Choinière M. Factors Associated with Suicidal Ideation in Patients with Chronic Non-Cancer Pain. Pain Med. 2017 Feb 1;18(2):283-293. doi: 10.1093/pm/pnw115. PMID: 28204732.
NO https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/id/publication/16011
NO Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Rx&D Collaborative Research Program
NO Pfizer Canada Inc.
NO FRSQ
NO Canadian Institutes of Health Research Strategic Training Fellow in “Pain: Molecules to Community” (PM2C)
NO The Earl Russell Chair in Pain Medicine, Western University, London, Ontario
NO ICREA-Acadèmia
NO Universitat Rovira i Virgili (PFR program)
NO RecerCaixa
NO Spanish Ministry of Innovation
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
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