• JAMA psychiatry · Jul 2013

    Noncancer pain conditions and risk of suicide.

    • Mark A Ilgen, Felicia Kleinberg, Rosalinda V Ignacio, Amy S B Bohnert, Marcia Valenstein, John F McCarthy, Frederic C Blow, and Ira R Katz.
    • Veterans Affairs Serious Mental Illness Treatment Resource and Evaluation Center, Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. marki@med.umich.edu
    • JAMA Psychiatry. 2013 Jul 1;70(7):692-7.

    ImportanceThere are limited data on the extent to which suicide mortality is associated with specific pain conditions.ObjectiveTo examine the associations between clinical diagnoses of noncancer pain conditions and suicide among individuals receiving services in the Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare System.DesignRetrospective data analysis.SettingData were extracted from National Death Index and treatment records from the Department of Veterans Healthcare System.ParticipantsIndividuals receiving services in fiscal year 2005 who remained alive at the start of fiscal year 2006 (N = 4 863 086).Main Outcomes And MeasuresAnalyses examined the association between baseline clinical diagnoses of pain-related conditions (arthritis, back pain, migraine, neuropathy, headache or tension headache, fibromyalgia, and psychogenic pain) and subsequent suicide death (assessed in fiscal years 2006-2008).ResultsControlling for demographic and contextual factors (age, sex, and Charlson score), elevated suicide risks were observed for each pain condition except arthritis and neuropathy (hazard ratios ranging from 1.33 [99% CI, 1.22-1.45] for back pain to 2.61 [1.82-3.74] for psychogenic pain). When analyses controlled for concomitant psychiatric conditions, the associations between pain conditions and suicide death were reduced; however, significant associations remained for back pain (hazard ratio, 1.13 [99% CI, 1.03-1.24]), migraine (1.34 [1.02-1.77]), and psychogenic pain (1.58 [1.11-2.26]).Conclusions And RelevanceThere is a need for increased awareness of suicide risk in individuals with certain noncancer pain diagnoses, in particular back pain, migraine, and psychogenic pain.

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