Quality of life and pain

Pain involves a complex and comprehensive phenomenon with sensory affective cognitive and behavioral components The control of pain has a key role in determining the quality of life in health Pain has a detrimental effect on every aspect of the life of individuals and produces anxiety and emotional distress affects the general well being negatively inhibits the functional capacity and inhibit the ability to perform family social and vocational roles in daily life Because of the broad based effects of pain it significantly affects the physical social and spiritual functions of the individuals and have an effect of diminishing the quality of life at all points It has been reported that sleep quality daily life activities working ability and social interactions of patients who has moderate or severe pain were impaired Pain and quality of life share several essential characteristics Therefore in this work the relationship between pain and quality of life is reviewed