F-3-04-01
COMPARISON WITH CENTRAL AND MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN USING McGILL PAIN QUESTIONNAIRE
Haewon Moon (Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, South Korea), Ueonwoo Rah, Ilyung Lee, Shinyoung Yim, Minsun Song, Sangil Park
The purpose of the study is to analyze characteristics of the central pain in patients with spinal cord injury and to compare with the musculskeletal pain using McGill Pain Questionnaire(MPQ) Korean version. The subjects were ninety-nine patients with spinal cord injury and thirty patients with musculoskeletal pain with duration more than 3 months. The results are as follows. 1) Central pain has significantly higher sensory, miscellaneous, and total scores of MPQ Korean version than the musculoskeletal pain. 2) Central pain has significantly higher scores than musculoskeletal pain in subclasses such as spatial, punctate, incisive, thermal and coldness. 3) The most frequently chosen words are "radiating"(46%) in central pain and "throbbing"(32%) in musculoskeletal pain. We conclude that MPQ Korean version can be a useful measuring tool for the evaluation of different kinds of pain.
F-3-04-02
PSYCHOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS IN FIBROMYALGIA SYNDROME: RELATIONSHIP OF CLINICAL PARAMETERS AND GENERAL HEALTH STATUS
Gunes Yavuzer, Halise Devrimci-Ozguven, Sercan Ekin, Atilla Elhan, Sureyya Ergin Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
In this study sociodemographic and clinical characteristics (pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance and tender point examination-TPS) of fifty-one patients with primary fibromyalgia were analyzed. Patients also completed Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Speilberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Life Satisfaction Scale (LSS), Courthould Emotional Control Scale (CECS), and Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ). Mean scores of the parameters were found as: Pain VAS=7.44, fatigue VAS=7.96, sleep VAS=5.23, TPS=16.16, BDI=19.0, STAI=45.37, LSS=7.37, CECS=49.73, and FIQ=58.63. The correlations between BDI, STAI, LSS, and CECS were all found to be statistically significant (p<0.05). There were a moderate correlation between fatigue VAS-BDI (p&360;0.01) and fatigue VAS-FIQ (p<0.001). It is concluded that, psychological parameters did not have any significant effect on general health status of fibromyalgia patients. Only fatigue found to be negatively effective on such patients. These findings elucidate the importance of adequate fatigue treatment for improvement in patients' general health status.
