BACKGROUND Mental disorders are associated with increased mortality, but population-based surveys with reliable diagnostic procedures controlling for somatic health status are scarce. AIMS To assess excess mortality associated with depressive, anxiety and alcohol use disorders and the principal causes of death. METHOD In a nationally representative sample of Finns aged 30-70 years, psychiat...

BACKGROUND Gastrointestinal complaints are very common in the general population and very often co-occur with common mental disorders. We aimed to study the prospective impact of gastrointestinal complaints on long term sickness absence, and address the contribution from co-occurring common mental disorders and other somatic symptoms. METHOD Health data on 13 880 40-45 year olds from the Hord...

somatic symptoms in adolescents is important in designing or improving interventions for these patients. Methods: Participants were 141 middle school adolescents, aged 11to 15-years, with a mean age of 12.33-years (SD 1⁄4 1.22). Male participants made up 43.3% of the sample. Participants were asked to complete a questionnaire packet, with up to 20 students participating at one time. Portions of...

A COMPARISON OF BRIEF, SINGLE-SESSIONS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND RELAXATIONIMEDITATION ON AFFECTIVE RESPONSES OF FEMALE UNDERGRADUATES Paul G. Salmon December 8, 2003 This study compared brief, single sessions of physical activity (P A, self-paced treadmill walking) and relaxation/meditation (RIM, the 'Body Scan') on positive and negative affect and anxiety measures in female undergraduates. Bot...

This study developed and validated a new measure to assess the death anxiety (i.e., Scale of Death Anxiety, SDA) on an individual's somatic, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral reactions from a symptomatic perspective in Chinese youth samples. Following a systematic process, a four-factor structure of the SDA was identified through principle components analysis and confirmatory factor analysis...

OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy and tolerability of duloxetine in elderly patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). METHODS Acute-phase data from a subset of patients (>or=65 years) with GAD were pooled from four randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials of duloxetine (3 flexible, 1 fixed dosing). Patients were treated with duloxetine 60-120 mg once daily or placebo for 9-1...

AIM Alexithymia is associated with limited cognitive processing of emotions by an individual suffering from recurrent urticaria and alexithymia and makes them focus on somatic manifestations of emotional arousal and on poorly controlled compulsive reactions to negative stimulation. Alexithymia is considered to be a personality trait, which, along with other factors, predisposes individuals towa...

Title: Patients presenting with somatic complaints in general practice: depression, anxiety and somatoform disorders are frequent and associated with psychosocial stressors

In view of the uncertain relationship between body related "Boundary loss" and anxiety as well as depression symptoms we carried out the following study. Our aim was to explore these symptoms in their diagnostic and clinical significance and to define body distortions and organic disturbances. We examined the body perception (via Image Marking Procedure), aspects of body image via Body Distorti...