Mood, passive coping in terms of catastrophising about pain, and speech problems. The results showed anxious mood to be associated with several factors including beliefs that pain is itself worsened by negative Self-report measures of painīeliefs, coping strategies, pain intensity, disability and mood were administered to a sample of 80 facial arthromyalgia patients of differingĬhronicity.
It also identi®es factors which mayīe predictive of raised levels of these two moods and of the presence of clinical anxiety and clinical depression. Paper examines the extent to which the condition is associated with symptoms of anxiety and depression. Received 24 November 1998 received in revised form 10 February 1999 accepted 11 August 1999įacial arthromyalgia (temporomandibular joint pain dysfunction syndrome, TMD) is a chronic pain condition of unknown origin. Geir Madland a,b, Charlotte Feinmann a,c, Stanton Newman a,*ĭepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, University College London, London, UKĭepartment of Oral Medicine, Eastman Dental Institute, London, UKīehavioural Sciences and Dentistry, Eastman Dental Institute, London, UK
Factors associated with anxiety and depression in facial arthromyalgia
