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KMID : 0391119950040020035
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Ulsan University Medical Journal
1995 Volume.4 No. 2 p.35 ~ p.44
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A Study on the Correlation of Pain Perception, Psychiatric Symptoms and Attentional Level in Somatoform Disorder Patients
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한오수
김성윤/천두욱/유희정/이철
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Abstract
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The authors examined the correlation of pain sensitivity and somatization, anxiety, depression indices and attentional level in somatoform disorder patients under the preposition that these patients ay have different pain modulatory mechanism
affected
by their psychiatric symptom state or cognitive function such as sustained attentional level. 18 somatoform disorder patients and 18 control subjects had taken electrical pain stimuli with NEUROSTIM T4, Type 219N stimulator and checked their
level
of
pain sensitivity on a VAS scale. Somatization inde, anxiety, depression indices were measured by SCL-90-R, objective and subjective psychological scales respectively. Attentional level were measured by Cognitrone test of Vienna neuropsychological
test
system.
Compared to control group, the patient group showed higher somatization index and psychiatric symptom scores and lower attentional level. The pain sensitivity of the patient group was not correlated with their age, somatization, anxiety,
depression
indices and attentional level. But the tendency of higher correlation between 5mA electrical stimulus and objective depression index suggests that distinct correlation can be elucidated between psychiatric symptom scores and pain sensitivity if
higher
electrical pain stimuli were applied in future study.
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