The correlation of scl-90-r anxiety, depression, somatization subscale scores with chronic low back pain

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psychological problems, the exact relationship between pain behavior and psychological factors are not very clear.Besides the importance of selecting patients with "psychogenic diseases" as stated in Table I among other cases, the anxiety, depression, somatization, caused by pain can provoke pain itself although correct therapy is used especially in chronic cases. AIM: To investigate the correlation of the Symptom Checklist-90-R (SCL-90-R) anxiety, depression, and somatization subscale scores with chronic low back pain (LBP).MATERIAL and METHODS: Seventy-five patients who were admitted with the complaint of chronic LBP (patient group) and 75 healthy persons (control group) were evaluated.SCL-90-R anxiety, depression, and somatization subscale scores of patients having chronic LBP and healthy persons were measured.The mean values were paired and using two tailed t test they were statistically evaluated. RESULTS:The difference between SCL-90-R anxiety subscale subscores of patients having chronic LBP and healthy persons was not statistically significant (p>0.05).The difference between SCL-90-R depression subscale subscores of patients having chronic LBP and healthy persons was not statistically significant (p>0.05).The difference between SCL-90-R somatization subscale subscores of patients having chronic LBP and healthy persons was statistically significant (p<0.05).CONCLUSION: SCL-90-R somatization subscale subscores are higher in patients with low back pain.The treatment of low back pain can be more successful when combined with the treatment of somatization.