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Factors Associated with Quality of Life of Psychiatric Outpatients with Chronic Pain in South Korea
Eun-Joo Choi1, So Yeon Yoo2,*
1 Red Cross College of Nursing Chung-Ang University, Seoul, 06974, South Korea
2 Department of Nursing, Kyungil University, Gyeongbuk, 38428, South Korea
* Corresponding Author: So Yeon Yoo. Email:
International Journal of Mental Health Promotion 2020, 22(2), 93-104. https://doi.org/10.32604/IJMHP.2020.011059
Received 18 April 2020; Accepted 19 May 2020; Issue published 16 June 2020
Abstract
Chronic pain has a high prevalence rate and is difficult to treat because
it is associated with personality, socio-psychological problems as well as physical
pain, and thereby degrades one’s quality of life. This study aimed to determine
whether psychosocial factors are associated with quality of life among outpatients
with chronic pain. The subjects were selected from patients with chronic pain who
were receiving outpatient treatment at the mental health department of a university
hospital in Seoul, Korea. The participants were 100 patients and the data were
collected using structured questionnaires. Patients’ quality of life was significantly
positively correlated with pain acceptance and spirituality, and negatively
associated with catastrophizing and neuroticism. Multiple regression showed that
catastrophizing, spirituality, pain acceptance, neuroticism, and number of pain
sites were significant predictors of quality of life. These variables explained 59.0%
of quality of life. Therefore, to improve quality of life in patients with chronic pain,
it may be necessary to develop their spirituality and pain acceptance, and to reduce
their catastrophizing and neuroticism.
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Choi, E., Yoo, S. Y. (2020). Factors Associated with Quality of Life of Psychiatric Outpatients with Chronic Pain in South Korea.
International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 22(2), 93–104.