Somatoform disorders in general practice
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Somatoform disorders in general practice: prevalence, functional impairment and comorbidity with anxiety and depressive disorders.
BACKGROUND General practitioners play a pivotal part in the recognition and treatment of psychiatric disorders. Identifying somatoform disorders is important for the choice of treatment. AIMS To quantify the prevalence of, and functional impairment associated with, somatoform disorders, and their comorbidity with anxiety/depressive disorders. METHOD Two-stage prevalence study: a set of ques...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.184.6.470