Ramos RY, Santana MAR, Valladares GAM, López AL, González BM

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: Chronic lumbar pain is one of the suffering causes worldwide, and emotions influence the individual's response to the disease.
Objective: To relate the emotional states of anxiety, depression and anger in patients with chronic lumbar pain with some clinical variables (time of evolution, intensity and persistence).
Methods: Observational, descriptive-correlational study at Cartagena Polyclinic between September 2012 and April 2013. Universe: 30 patients, sample: 25 patients, selected by intentional sampling. Techniques employed: structured interview, visual analogue scale, Idare, Staxi-2, Beck Inventory.
Results: Male sex and engagement configuration (84 %) appear as identification variables, occupation: workers (76 %), age: young adults (52 %), mean schooling (40 %) were identified as identification. The clinical variables predominated in the evolution period from 13 to 24 months (56 %), with mild pain intensity (48 %) and intermittent persistence (84 %). Emotional states showed average percentages of state anxiety (60 %), high trait anxiety (56 %), moderate depression (40 %), and mild anger status, moderate as trait (48 %), (52 %).
Conclusions: The presence of high percentages of anxious symptoms, depression and anger manifested in the sample studied was similar to that described in the literature. Anxiety and anger as a personality trait was not related to the clinical variables studied, associations were found between intensity and persistence of pain with depression and anxiety and anger as a state and between time evolution of disease and anger state.