Open AccessPain affects depression through anxiety, fatigue, and sleep in multiple sclerosis.
Author(s) -
Dagmar Amtmann,
Robert L. Askew,
Jiseon Kim,
Hyewon Chung,
Dawn M. Ehde,
Charles H. Bombardier,
George H. Kraft,
Salene M.W. Jones,
Kurt Johnson
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
rehabilitation psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.673
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1939-1544
pISSN - 0090-5550
DOI - 10.1037/rep0000027
Subject(s) - anxiety , depression (economics) , sleep disorder , psychology , chronic pain , population , clinical psychology , medicine , psychiatry , physical therapy , insomnia , environmental health , economics , macroeconomics
Over a quarter million individuals in the United States have multiple sclerosis (MS). Chronic pain and depression are disproportionately high in this population. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between chronic pain and depression in MS and to examine potentially meditational effects of anxiety, fatigue, and sleep.