DASS
scores for depressive symptoms for our sample of patients with
pain (
mean, 13.61; SD, 11.54) were higher than those of a healthy community sample (
mean, 5.06; SD, 7.57) and lower than those of a sample of (non-
pain) patients with diagnosed mood disorders (
mean, 17.24; SD, 11.79).7 Only 30.3 % of our patients with
pain scored higher than the
mean score of the mood disorder group.