Physical and psychiatric predictors of late whiplash syndrome

Turner, Mark A., Taylor, Pamela Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3998-6095 and Neal, Leigh A. 2003. Physical and psychiatric predictors of late whiplash syndrome. Injury 34 (6) , pp. 434-437. 10.1016/S0020-1383(02)00311-X

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Abstract

Approximately 40% of people who sustain whiplash injuries, complain of chronic physical and psychiatric symptoms. Associations have been found between pre-accident physical symptoms and physical outcome and between pre-accident psychiatric variables and both physical and psychiatric outcome. There are no reported investigations of the association between pre-accident physical symptoms and psychiatric outcome. In this study, 33 consecutive cases of whiplash injury met inclusion criteria from a series of psychiatric reports used in civil litigation. Outcome was measured for each patient and correlated with a range of pre-accident physical and psychiatric variables using multivariate regression. There was no association between pre-accident psychiatric factors and overall outcome. Older age and a pre-accident history of musculoskeletal complaints correlated with the physical and psychiatric outcome. In whiplash injury, pre-accident psychiatric factors may have little bearing on long-term prognosis. Physical and psychiatric outcome of late whiplash syndrome is probably worse in older individuals and in patients with a pre-accident history of musculoskeletal complaints.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0020-1383
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2022 10:35
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/85405

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