Direct and Indirect Effects of Function in Associated Variables Such as Depression and Severity on Pain Intensity in Women with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Objective To determine the direct and indirect effects of function on clinical variables such as age, pain intensity, years of the disease, severity of symptoms, and depression in women with electrodiagnostic and clinical diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). Design A cross‐sectional study. Set...

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Published in:Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) Mass.), 2015-12, Vol.16 (12), p.2405-2411
Main Authors: Fernández‐de‐las‐Peñas, César, Fernández‐Muñoz, Juan J., Palacios‐Ceña, María, Navarro‐Pardo, Esperanza, Ambite‐Quesada, Silvia, Salom‐Moreno, Jaime
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Aged
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Causality
Comorbidity
Cross-Sectional Studies
Depression
Depression - diagnosis
Depression - epidemiology
Depression - psychology
Female
Function
Humans
Mediation
Middle Aged
Neuralgia - diagnosis
Neuralgia - epidemiology
Neuralgia - psychology
Pain
Pain - diagnosis
Pain - epidemiology
Pain - psychology
Pain management
Pain Measurement
Prevalence
Recovery of Function
Reproducibility of Results
Risk Factors
Self Report
Sensitivity and Specificity
Severity
Severity of Illness Index
Spain - epidemiology
Symptom Assessment
Women's Health - statistics & numerical data
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Summary:Objective To determine the direct and indirect effects of function on clinical variables such as age, pain intensity, years of the disease, severity of symptoms, and depression in women with electrodiagnostic and clinical diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). Design A cross‐sectional study. Setting Patients from an urban hospital referred to a university clinic. Methods Two hundred and forty‐four (n = 224) women with CTS were included. Demographic and clinical data, duration of symptoms, function, symptom's severity of the symptoms, pain intensity, and depression were self‐reported collected. Correlation and path analysis with maximum likelihood estimation were conducted to assess the direct and indirect effect of hand function on pain, age, years with the disease, symptoms severity, and depression. Results Significant positive correlations between function and pain intensity, years with pain and symptoms severity were observed. The path analysis found direct effects from depression, symptoms severity, and years with pain to function (all, P 
ISSN:1526-2375
1526-4637
DOI:10.1111/pme.12857