Cutaneous sensory function is not related to depression and anxiety in patients with chronic pruritus with dysesthetic subqualities

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 289-293

  Schneider, Gudrun ^a,d   Pogatzki Zahn, Esther ^b,d   Marziniak, Martin ^c   Stumpf, Astrid ^a,d   Ständer, Sonja ^d  

^a Departments of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy   (Germany)

^b Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy   (Germany)

^c Isar Amper Hospital   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Chronic pruritus with dysesthetic subqualities; Depression; Psychiatric comorbidity; Quantitative sensory testing (QST)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DYSESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULUS TEST; MIDDLE AGED; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PSYCHOSOMATICS; QUANTITATIVE SENSORY TESTING; QUESTIONNAIRE; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; INNERVATION; NOCICEPTION; PAIN THRESHOLD; PARESTHESIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRESSURE; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; RISK FACTOR; SKIN; TEMPERATURE SENSE;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN PERCEPTION; PAIN THRESHOLD; PARESTHESIA; PRESSURE; PRURITUS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; RISK FACTORS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SKIN; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; THERMOSENSING;

EID: 84922807864     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: 16512057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-1933     Document Type: Article

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