TREATMENT OF PSYCHOGENIC PAIN SYNDROME IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS DURING ANTITUMOR THERAPY

Abstract

Relevance: pain syndrome is a common phenomenon in oncopediatrics, and pain control and proper treatment tactics remain relevant to date. Objective: to generalize the experience of approaches to the therapy of psychogenic pain syndrome in children and adolescents with oncological and oncohematological diseases at the stage of antitumor treatment. Methods: traditional clinical and psychopathological, clinical and catamnestic methods and scale methods were used for psychiatry. Research material: children and adolescents who were treated at the Research Institute of the Russian Scientific Research Center and the Oncological and Oncohematological departments of the Morozovskaya DGKB DZM in 2020-2022. Results: 32 patients were selected from all those examined with suspected psychogenic pain, whose pain syndrome corresponded to the concept of "psychogenic algic syndrome". It was noted that female patients prevailed among patients with psychogenic pain.The patients were characterized by an exaggerated description and perception of pain sensations, the intensity of pain was associated with an emotional background, current events. Typical for patients were personality accentuations, as well as such psychopathological manifestations as anxiety, reduced mood background, fears, hypochondriac fixation. The proposed treatment tactics included medical (medicinal) and non-medical methods (psychotherapy, work with parents and caring adults). Conclusions:integrative models of therapy (a combination of medicinal and non-medicinal methods) for psychogenic pain syndrome show their high effectiveness.