15. Clinical features of pain symptom in patients with recurrent depressive disorder
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Patients with recurrent depressive disorder often present a diverse range of clinical symptoms, including emotional and somatic complaints. Pain is a common somatic symptom in this group of patients. The study was conducted on 109 in-patients with recurrent depressive disorder at the Institute of Mental Health - Bach Mai Hospital from January 2020 to December 2021. This is a descriptive cross-sectional study and case cluster analysis. The study results obtained: the mean age was 48.67 ± 15.08 and the female: male ratio was approximately 2.6: 1. There were 61 patients with recurrent depressive disorder (55.96%) with pain symptoms. Of the reported pain sites, headache was the most frequently (41.28%). The majority of patients reported: pain in one location (49.18%), pressure-type pain (75.41%), pain with gradual onset (90.16%), pain that fluctuates during the day (32,79%), pain increases when experiencing stress (62.3%), there is no obvious factor to reduce pain (59.02%) and pain reduces the quality of work and living (81.97%). Comparing before and after 4 weeks of treatment, the pain score on the VAS scale and the depression score on the HAM-D scale both decreased, statistically significant with p = 0.000 (< 0.05).
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Recurrent depressive disorder, pain
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