Self-Reported Pain and Emotional Reactivity in Bipolar Disorder: A Prospective FACE-BD Study.

ABSTRACT: In patients with bipolar disorder (BD), pain prevalence is close to 30%. It is important to determine whether pain influences BD course and to identify factors associated with pain in BD in order to guide BD management. This naturalistic, prospective study used data on 880 patients with BD from the French FACE-BD cohort who were divided into two groups according to the presence or absence of pain. Multivariate models were used to test whether pain was associated with affective states and personality traits while controlling for confounders. Then, multivariate models were used to test whether pain at baseline predicted global life functioning and depressive symptomatology at one year. At baseline, 22% of patients self-reported pain. The pain was associated with depressive symptomatology, le

SUBMITTER: Risch N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8836480 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature