Mental health of chronic osteomyelitis patients and the related factors
LIU Wei
DENG Song-yun
XIAO Yan
MAI Hai-miao
YAN Zhi-qiang
OU Guang-peng
HUANG Rui-liang
NI Guo-xin
YU Bin
Abstract：Objective To examine the anxiety and depressive status of chronic osteomyelitis (COM) patients, and further analyze its related factors .Methods A total of 52 Chinese patients with COM and 55 healthy controls were enrolled, who were asked to complete the Chinese version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale ( HADS) , inclu-ding HADS-A and HADS-D.Factors related to mental health were investigated as well .Results The COM patients′average score of HADS -A was 7.69 ±3.70; and 27 ( 51.9%) patients were classified as anxiety , among whom 11 (21.2%) patients were classified as moderate to severe anxiety .The average score of HADS -D was 7.13 ±4.19;and 28(53.8%) patients were classified as depression , among whom 10(19.7%) patients were classified as moderate to se-vere depression .Both the HADS-A and HADS-D scores in COM patients were significant higher than controls ( P<0.001).HADS-A scores were in significantly correlated with operation times (P=0.037) and genders (P=0.047), and in marginal correlated with duration of disease ( P=0.052) .HADS-A scores was significantly correlated with opera-tion times (P=0.014).Conclusion Anxiety and depression are more common in COM patients .More operation times, male and longer duration of disease are risk factors of anxiety .In addition, more operation time is a risk factor of depres-sion as well .
Keywords：chronic osteomyelitisanxietydepressionhospital anxiety and depression scale
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 2676-2679 )