Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria (Sep 1997)

Dor, depressão e conceitos culturais Depression and misconceptions: correlationship with oncological pain expression

  • Cibele Andrucioli de Mattos Pimenta,
  • Maria Sumie Koizumi,
  • Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0004-282X1997000300004
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 55, no. 3A
pp. 370 – 380

Abstract

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A influência de fatores pessoais, culturais e afetivos e das caracterísrticas das neoplasias na ocorrência e expressão do sintoma álgico de 92 doentes com doença oncológica avançada foi avaliada através de escalas e inventários adaptados para a língua portuguesa. Havia dor, em geral moderada ou intensa, durante a semana anterior à entrevista em 62,0% dos casos. A duração média do quadro álgico foi 10 meses. Havia maior proporção de doentes com neoplasia do segmento cabeça e pescoço no grupo com dor, do que sem dor. Concepções culturais errôneas sobre o controle da dor no câncer e de que doentes recebiam remédios em demasia se correlacionaram à dor de maior intensidade (pThe influence of personal, cultural and affective factors and of the characteristics of the neoplasic diseases in the occurrence of pain and pain intensity in 92 patients presenting advanced cancer was evaluated. Pain usually moderate or severe during past week before the interview occurred in 62.0% of the patients. The duration of pain symptomatology lasted 10 months as an average. There was a higher proportion of patients with head and neck tumors in the group with pain than without pain. Cultural misconceptions about cancer pain control and the idea that doctors prescribe excessive amount of analgesics were correlated with higher intensities of pain (p<0.05). Patients with pain presented higher depression scores than patients without pain (p<0.05) Higher pain scores were correlated with higher depressive scores (p<0.05).

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