Somatizing patients, who comprise approximately 20 percent of the primary care population, often present physicians with recurrent but confusing combinations of symptoms without organic explanations. Illness narratives presented during initial medical encounters with primary care physicians were examined qualitatively to determine if the narrative structure, chronological development of symptom...

The literature on mental health effects of catastrophic trauma such as community disasters focuses on posttraumatic stress disorder. Somatization disorder is not listed among the classic responses to disaster, nor have other somatoform disorders been described in this literature. Nondiagnostic "somatization," "somatization symptoms," and "somatic symptoms" form the basis of most information abo...

AIMS To examine the extent of depression, anxiety, somatization, and comorbidity between depression and anxiety in patients with temporomandibular disorders (TMD) by adding the Symptom Checklist-90 Revised self-report questionnaire for anxiety to the Research Diagnostic Criteria for TMD. METHODS A total of 207 Israeli TMD patients were included in this retrospective study. Data included level...

INTRODUCTION The association between depression, somatization and low back pain has been minimally investigated in a Canadian emerging adult population. METHODS 1013 first year Canadian university students completed the Modified Zung Depression Index, the Modified Somatic Perception Questionnaire, and a survey about low back pain frequency and intensity. Multinomial logistic regression was us...

OBJECTIVES Our objectives were to determine how patients who make frequent use of the medical system (high users) with medically unexplained symptoms met our chart-rating criteria for somatization and minor acute illness and what the stability of such diagnoses were over time. STUDY DESIGN A chart review was performed at baseline and 1 and 2 years; we re-rated the charts of patients initially...

Relevance. One of the negative consequences pandemic may be an increase in somatization. The analysis statements about makes it possible to identify peculiarities attitude situation by people with different psychological problems. aim study was identification implicit characteristics texts indicating opinion a high level Materials and methods. material obtained online survey (03/23/2020 — 01/29...

Somatizasyon, zorlayıcı dışsal faktörlerin ya da bireylerin iç çatışmalarının yarattığı olumsuz duyguların beden üzerinden deneyimlenmesi ve ifade edilmesi olarak tanımlanmaktadır. Somatizasyonun tanılanması için öncelikle ilgili olabilecek organik hastalıkların elimine gerektiği kişilerin sağlık kuruluşlarında geçirdikleri zaman artmakta belirtilerin getirdiği rahatsızlıkların sürmesi nedeniyl...