Pain Severity and Emotion Dysregulation Among Latinos in a Community Health Care Setting: Relations to Mental Health

Although pain severity is often related to poorer mental health and one of the most common presenting complaints in community healthcare settings, there is little understanding of the pain experience in relation to anxiety/depressive symptoms and disorders among Latino populations in medical contexts. To address this gap, the current study explored an interactive model of pain severity and emotion dysregulation in relation to anxiety/depressive symptoms and psychopathology among 274 Latinos who attended a community-based primary healthcare clinic [86.9% female; Mage=39.3 (SD=11.2); 96.0% indicated Spanish as their first language].

Source: General Hospital Psychiatry - July 8, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Daniel J. Paulus, Jafar Bakhshaie, Monica Garza, Melissa Ochoa-Perez, Nubia Angelina Mayorga, Daniel Bogiaizian, Zuzuky Robles, Qian Lu, Joseph Ditre, Kevin Vowles, Norman B. Schmidt, Michael J. Zvolensky Source Type: research