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Anxiety, depression, and behavioural rating scales in children with non-cardiac chest pain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

Aytaç Kenar ,
Utku Arman Örün ,
Tamer Yoldaş Open the ORCID record for Tamer Yoldaş [Opens in a new window] ,
Şeyma Kayalı ,
Şahin Bodur  and
Selmin Karademir
Aytaç Kenar
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity, Children’s Health and Diseases Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
Utku Arman Örün
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity, Children’s Health and Diseases Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
Tamer Yoldaş*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity, Children’s Health and Diseases Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
Şeyma Kayalı
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity, Children’s Health and Diseases Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
Şahin Bodur
Affiliation:
Department of Child Psychiatry, Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity, Children’s Health and Diseases Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
Selmin Karademir
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity, Children’s Health and Diseases Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
*
Author for correspondence: T. Yoldaş, MD, Department of Cardiology, Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity, Children’s Health and Diseases Training and Research Hospital, Babür Caddesi No. 44, Altındağ, 06080 Ankara, Turkey. Tel: +90 (312) 305 6570, Fax: +90 (312) 317 03 53; E-mail: tameryoldas@gmail.com
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Abstract

Introduction:

Chest pain is the second most common reason for referral to paediatric cardiologists after benign heart murmurs. Aetiology frequently depends on non-cardiac reasons. In addition, individuals may experience non-cardiac chest pain which is idiopathic or of unknown origin. The aim of this study is to examine psychological symptoms in children and adolescents with medically unexplained chest pain.

Methods:

A total of 76 patients (ages 8–18 years) were included in the study, who were referred to the paediatric cardiology department with the complaint of chest pain but did not have any detected cardiac aetiology or any other organic causes of chest pain. The control group was composed of 51 healthy volunteers. Self-evaluation scales were given to both groups which included Beck Anxiety Inventory and Children’s Depression Inventory. Also parents of both groups completed the Conner’s Parent Rating Scale for assessment of Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

Results:

Anxiety scores of the non-cardiac chest pain group were significantly higher compared to controls. No significant differences were found between patients and controls in terms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and depression scores. In patient group, patterns were similar for boys and girls and for children and adolescents; except girls scored significantly higher than boys in children’s depression inventory.

Conclusions:

In children and adolescents, non-cardiac chest pain is associated with increased levels of anxiety. These results show the importance of psychiatric evaluation in non-cardiac chest pain patients. Larger controlled studies are needed to determine the prevalence and impact of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and depression in children and adolescents with non-cardiac chest pain.

Keywords

Chest painanxietydepressionattention-deficitchildren
Type
Original Article
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Cardiology in the Young , Volume 29 , Issue 10 , October 2019 , pp. 1268 - 1271
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© Cambridge University Press 2019 

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