An assessment of sensory sensitivity in women suffering from depression using transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
Background Perception is the process or result of the process arising from the mental interpretation of the phenomena occurring, therefore it depends not only on physiology, but is also psychologically and socially conditioned. The aim of this study was to assess if there is a difference in the sens...
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| author | Joanna Witkoś Agnieszka Fusińska-Korpik Magdalena Hartman-Petrycka Agnieszka Nowak |
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| description | Background Perception is the process or result of the process arising from the mental interpretation of the phenomena occurring, therefore it depends not only on physiology, but is also psychologically and socially conditioned. The aim of this study was to assess if there is a difference in the sensory sensitivity to an electrical stimulus in women suffering from depression and what the hedonic rating is of the lived experience of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation. Methods The depression group: 44 women, who were inpatients treated for depression at the Psychiatric Ward in the Clinical Hospital, and the control group: 41 women, matched by the age, height and weight, with no mental illness. Measures: threshold for sensing current, type of sensation evoked, hedonic rating. Results Median sensing threshold of electric current (depression vs. control: 7.75 mA vs. 8.35 mA; no significant), type of sensation evoked (depression vs. control: tingling 90.9% vs. 92.7%, no significant), hedonic rating (depression vs. control: unpleasant 11.4% vs. 2.4%; p = 0.003), hedonic rating (mildly ill vs. moderately ill vs. markedly ill: unpleasant 5.3% vs. 6.3% vs. 33.3%; p = 0.066). Conclusions Women suffering from depression exhibit a similar threshold of sensitivity to an electrical stimulus as mentally healthy women, however the hedonic rating of the stimulus acting on the skin in the group of clinically depressed women was more negative than in the mentally healthy subjects. The stimulus was described as ‘unpleasant’ for many of the mentally unhealthy women. The most negative sensations related to the electrical stimulus were experienced by women with the highest severity of mental illness according to The Clinical Global Impression - Severity Scale. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e0eef85510da44508398ec597664b48f2023-12-02T23:34:49ZengPeerJ Inc.PeerJ2167-83592022-05-0110e1337310.7717/peerj.13373An assessment of sensory sensitivity in women suffering from depression using transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulationJoanna Witkoś0Agnieszka Fusińska-Korpik1Magdalena Hartman-Petrycka2Agnieszka Nowak3Medicine and Health Science, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University, Kraków, PolandMedicine and Health Science, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University, Kraków, PolandDepartment of Basic Biomedical Science, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Sosnowiec, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, PolandJózef Babiński Clinical Hospital in Krakow, Psychiatric Ward, Kraków, PolandBackground Perception is the process or result of the process arising from the mental interpretation of the phenomena occurring, therefore it depends not only on physiology, but is also psychologically and socially conditioned. The aim of this study was to assess if there is a difference in the sensory sensitivity to an electrical stimulus in women suffering from depression and what the hedonic rating is of the lived experience of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation. Methods The depression group: 44 women, who were inpatients treated for depression at the Psychiatric Ward in the Clinical Hospital, and the control group: 41 women, matched by the age, height and weight, with no mental illness. Measures: threshold for sensing current, type of sensation evoked, hedonic rating. Results Median sensing threshold of electric current (depression vs. control: 7.75 mA vs. 8.35 mA; no significant), type of sensation evoked (depression vs. control: tingling 90.9% vs. 92.7%, no significant), hedonic rating (depression vs. control: unpleasant 11.4% vs. 2.4%; p = 0.003), hedonic rating (mildly ill vs. moderately ill vs. markedly ill: unpleasant 5.3% vs. 6.3% vs. 33.3%; p = 0.066). Conclusions Women suffering from depression exhibit a similar threshold of sensitivity to an electrical stimulus as mentally healthy women, however the hedonic rating of the stimulus acting on the skin in the group of clinically depressed women was more negative than in the mentally healthy subjects. The stimulus was described as ‘unpleasant’ for many of the mentally unhealthy women. The most negative sensations related to the electrical stimulus were experienced by women with the highest severity of mental illness according to The Clinical Global Impression - Severity Scale.https://peerj.com/articles/13373.pdfSensory sensitivityPerceptionDepressionWomenTranscutaneous electrical nerve stimulationElectrotherapy treatment |
| spellingShingle | Joanna Witkoś Agnieszka Fusińska-Korpik Magdalena Hartman-Petrycka Agnieszka Nowak An assessment of sensory sensitivity in women suffering from depression using transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation PeerJ Sensory sensitivity Perception Depression Women Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation Electrotherapy treatment |
| title | An assessment of sensory sensitivity in women suffering from depression using transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation |
| title_full | An assessment of sensory sensitivity in women suffering from depression using transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation |
| title_fullStr | An assessment of sensory sensitivity in women suffering from depression using transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation |
| title_full_unstemmed | An assessment of sensory sensitivity in women suffering from depression using transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation |
| title_short | An assessment of sensory sensitivity in women suffering from depression using transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation |
| title_sort | assessment of sensory sensitivity in women suffering from depression using transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation |
| topic | Sensory sensitivity Perception Depression Women Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation Electrotherapy treatment |
| url | https://peerj.com/articles/13373.pdf |
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