Comorbidity of mental disorders and chronic pain: chronology of onset in adolescents of a national representative cohort

This study sought to estimate i) the prevalence of the co-occurrence of, ii) the association between, and iii) the sequence of onset of chronic pain and mental disorders in adolescents. We used weighted data (N=6483) from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement (participants’ age: 13-18 years). Lifetime chronic pain was assessed by adolescent self-report, lifetime DSM-IV mental disorders by the WHO CIDI, complemented by parent report. Among the study’s subjects, 1600 out of 6476 (25.93%) had experienced any type of chronic pain and any mental disorder in their lifetime.

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