PURPOSE The Research Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders (RDC/TMD) axis II for psychosocial assessment was adopted to grade chronic pain severity and to correlate that severity with levels of depression and somatization in a population of chronic TMD patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS A series of 111 consecutive patients who sought treatment for TMD symptoms lasting longer than 6...

Objective: Somatic symptoms are more likely to be present in depression and anxiety, which causes waste medical resources due excessive hospital addmissions. It has been observed that the unclarity of qualitative quantitative characteristics somatization depending on type influences clinical practice less than expected. In study, it was aimed determine hallmarks somatic groups investigate facto...

Sport-related concussion with its associated physical and cognitive symptoms has become an area of widespread interest with respect to developing techniques to best manage acute concussion effects, determining when concussed athletes may return to play without increased risk of further injury, as well as evaluating the long-term effects from repeated concussions sustained over many years and th...

OBJECTIVE Some people report symptoms that they associate with electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure. These symptoms may be related to specific EMF sources or to electrical equipment in general (perceived electromagnetic hypersensitivity, EHS). Research and clinical observations suggest a difference between mobile phone (MP)-related symptoms and EHS with respect to symptom prevalence, psychologi...

This randomized controlled trial investigated whether adding the psychodynamically based body-oriented psychotherapy "Functional Relaxation" (FR) to psychoeducation (PE) is more effective than PE alone to reduce stress and stress-associated complaints. Eighty-one participants with elevated stress-levels, ≥50 points on the global scale of the Perceived Stress Questionnaire (PSQ), received either...

OBJECTIVE To compare adolescents with migraine, unexplained profound chronic fatigue of >6 months duration, and normal school controls on measures of anxiety, depression, somatization, functional disability, and illness attribution. METHODS Adolescents referred to Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center for behavioral treatment of migraine (n = 179) or evaluation of chronic fatigue (n...

OBJECTIVE medically unexplained symptoms are common and associated with mental illness in various contexts. Previous studies show that Latin American populations are prone to somatization. Given the reformulation of the International Classification of Diseases towards its 11th edition the peculiarities of the population from this region of the world shall be taken into consideration. The object...

The present study examined the relations among mindfulness, psychological inflexibility (PI), and various forms of psychological distress (e.g. somatization, depression, and anxiety) in Asian American undergraduate students (N=116). We hypothesized that mindfulness and PI would be uniquely and separately associated with various forms of psychological distress. Data was gathered from undergradua...

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