Samenvatting
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.