Psychological medicine
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Psychological medicine · May 2006
ReviewSuicidality in chronic pain: a review of the prevalence, risk factors and psychological links.
This paper reviews and integrates the growing literature concerning the prevalence of and risk factors for suicidality in chronic pain. ⋯ Programmatic research is urgently required to investigate the role of both general and pain-specific risk factors for suicidality, to examine how the psychological processes mentioned above mediate or exacerbate suicidality, and to develop enhanced interventions for pain patients at risk.