ArticleGeneral hospital psychiatry
Pain conditions among veterans with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
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- Prescription opioid dispensing patterns among patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.BMC psychiatry · 2024Observational
- Barriers to accessing pain management services among veterans with bipolar disorder.Health services research · 2023Article
- Drug Safety and Suicidality Risk of Chronic Pain Medications.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Dissecting the shared genetic basis of migraine and mental disorders using novel statistical tools.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2022Article
- FOCUS mHealth Intervention for Veterans With Serious Mental Illness in an Outpatient Department of Veterans Affairs Setting: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Usability Study.JMIR mental health · 2022Article
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- Deciphering the Causal Relationships Between Low Back Pain Complications, Metabolic Factors, and Comorbidities.Journal of pain research · 2022Article
- Identifying cases of chronic pain using health administrative data: A validation study.Canadian journal of pain = Revue canadienne de la douleur · 2020Article
- Preclinical Considerations about Affective Disorders and Pain: A Broadly Intertwined, yet Often Under-Explored, Relationship Having Major Clinical Implications.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2020Review
- Chronic pain diagnoses and opioid dispensings among insured individuals with serious mental illness.BMC psychiatry · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe purpose of this study was to assess the rates of chronic, noncancer pain conditions in patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) System.
methodThis cross-sectional study used administrative data extracted from VHA treatment records of all individuals receiving VHA services in fiscal year 2008 (N=5,195,551). The associations between severe psychiatric disorders (schizophrenia and bipolar disorder) and chronic pain (arthritis, back pain, chronic pain, migraine, headache, psychogenic and neuropathic) were evaluated using a series of logistic regression analyses.
resultsVeterans with schizophrenia [odds ratio (OR)=1.21] and bipolar disorder (OR=2.17) were significantly more likely to have chronic pain overall relative to veterans without these psychiatric conditions. These associations were slightly lower than for the association between depression and pain in this sample (OR=2.61). The highest associations between specific psychiatric diagnosis and pain condition were found with chronic pain, headache and psychogenic pain.
conclusionsNoncancer pain conditions occur in elevated rates among patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Future research could further examine possible barriers to adequate pain treatment among people with serious mental illness, as well as the extent to which chronic pain might impact mental health recovery.
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