ArticleNeuropsychiatric disease and treatment2019
Reliability and validity of the Depression and Somatic Symptoms Scale among patients with chronic low back pain.
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- Prevalence of psychological comorbidities and their association with injection therapy outcomes in patients with chronic low back pain: a registry-based retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
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- Comparing the associations of three psychometric scales at baseline with long-term prognosis of depression over a 10-year period.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2022Article
- Potential Role of Pain Catastrophic Thinking in Comorbidity Patients of Depression and Chronic Pain.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Do Patients of Chronic Low Back Pain have Psychological Comorbidities?Avicenna journal of medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe Depression and Somatic Symptoms Scale (DSSS), which is a free scale that includes a depression subscale (DS) and a somatic subscale (SS), was developed to evaluate depression and somatic symptoms simultaneously. This study aimed to examine the reliability and validity of the DSSS among patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP).
methodsTwo-hundred and twenty-five patients with CLBP were enrolled. Psychiatric diagnoses were made based on the Structured Clinical Interview for
resultsSubjects with an MDE (N=21) had greater severities of depression, anxiety, somatic symptoms, and disability as compared with those without an MDE. The Cronbach's alpha values of the DS and SS were 0.90 and 0.83, respectively. The DS and SS were significantly correlated with the Oswestry Disability Index, the HADS, and the SF-36 subscales. The DS had the greatest area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (0.96) as compared with the SS and the HADS subscales. The cutoff score for an MDE was a DS score ≥15 (sensitivity and specificity: 100% and 88.7%, respectively).
conclusionThe DSSS subscales were of acceptable reliability and validity. The DS can be used as a tool for evaluating the severity of depression and detecting an MDE in patients with CLBP.
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