Pain perception and depression in patients with breast cancer
International Journal of Development Research
Pain perception and depression in patients with breast cancer
Received 07th March, 2018; Received in revised form 25th April, 2018; Accepted 19th May, 2018; Published online 30th June, 2018.
Copyright © 2018, Paula Oliveira Santiago et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
We studied pain perception and depression in a sample comprising 82 patients with breast cancer. Evaluation was done through standard form with socio-demographic questions. Relation between depression, McGill Pain Questionnaire, VAS and BDI corresponded to p >0.183. BDI related to quality of sleep with p = 0.036, the highest BDI being related to insomnia. Black and par do (brown-skinned) races revealed p < 0.05 in the McGill Pain Questionnaire for the affective, miscellaneous and total dimensions.
