Road vehicle accidents and phobias in 60 patients with fibromyalgia.

Author(s)
Kuch, K. Evans, R.J. Watson, P.C. & Bubela, C.
Year
Abstract

Sixty patients referred consecutively to a multidisciplinary pain clinic because of fibromyalgia were investigated by Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R. Phobias and posttraumatic stress disorders were 3.2 time more common in 33 (48.4%) victims of minor road vehicle accidents than in 27 (14.8%) patients with non-vehicular onset of pain. Neither affective disorder (28.3%) nor uncomplicated somatoform pain disorder (18.2%) clusetered with road vehicle accidents. Frightening accidents may more than double the risk of phobic disorder.

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941862 ST [electronic version only]
Source

Journal of Anxiety Disorders, Vol. 5 (1991), p. 273-280, 34 ref.

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