The sensory pain of Dante's Inferno - Semantics of chronic pain in patients with narcolepsy
Objective: To examine the semantics of chronic pain in narcolepsy and to compare with the poem Inferno, from Dante Alighieri. Methods: A cross-sectional study, in which type 1 (n=33) and type 2 (n=33) patients (hypocretin-1 quantification in cerebrospinal fluid), were studied...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brazilian Association of Sleep and Latin American Federation of Sleep Societies
2019-03-01
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| Series: | Sleep Science |
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| Online Access: | http://sleepscience.org.br/export-pdf/572/v12n1a09.pdf |
| Summary: | Objective: To examine the semantics of chronic pain in narcolepsy and to compare with the poem
Inferno, from Dante Alighieri. Methods: A cross-sectional study, in which type 1 (n=33) and type 2
(n=33) patients (hypocretin-1 quantification in cerebrospinal fluid), were studied at Departamento
de Psicobiologia - Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Brazil). We assessed pain descriptors in the
Present Rating Index (PRI) from McGill Pain Questionnaire. Results: There was no significant
difference in PRI between narcolepsy groups. In both groups, the most frequent words had a sensory
dimension: throbbing, jumping, and tugging. Multiple correspondence analysis revealed the
predominance of sensory descriptors and the deficiency of affective descriptors in these groups.
Discussion: A study that interpreted the poem Inferno, from Dante Alighieri, as McGill Pain
Questionnaires descriptors suggested a contribution of the sensory dimension in pain of possibly
narcolepsy patients, similar as in our results. |
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| ISSN: | 1984-0659 1984-0063 |