Opioid use behaviors, mental health and pain--development of a typology of chronic pain patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The intersection of pain, addiction and mental health has not been adequately described. We describe the roles of these three conditions in a chronic pain patient population using opioid analgesics. Aims were to improve our understanding of this population as well as to explore ways of identifying different types of patients.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective cohort study in a large integrated group medical practice in Washington State with persons using opioids chronically (n=704). Patient classes were derived with latent class analysis using factors representing DSM-IV opioid abuse and dependence, opioid misuse, pain, anxiety and depression. Regression analyses explored the utility of automated and interview data to distinguish the empirically derived patient

SUBMITTER: Banta-Green CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2716214 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature