Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN-2) is characterized by medullary thyroid carcinoma in combination with pheochromocytomas and, sometimes, parathyroid adenomas. Since 1993, the psychosocial implications of DNA analysis for MEN-2 have been studied in the Netherlands. This article summarizes the first results of that study. Individuals who applied for DNA analysis cited the need to reduce ...

BACKGROUND Medical students are exposed to stress and this can predispose them to psychological and behavioral consequences. METHODS Psychosomatic disorders were investigated among 385 medical students from two teaching hospitals using a stratified random sampling. The Enugu somatization Scale (ESS) was used to evaluate for presence of somatization in the participants. Statistical analysis wa...

Abstract Underweight or overweight in adolescence is linked to several adverse health outcomes. Less evidence exists about the association between weight status and school-related psychosocial characteristics high income countries. We sought investigate relationship psychosomatic complaints with a focus on gender differences. The study cohort of 18,462 adolescents (12–19 years; 51% girls) condu...

To fully answer the complex question of what modes of non pharmacological treatments are useful for fibromyalgia (FM) one should ask different layers of questions, and as with peeling layers of onions, be prepared to shed some tears. The first painful question, or layer of the onion, is related to understanding patients’ complaints. Patients who experience recurrent as well as persistent physic...

OBJECTIVE This article adopts the perspective of psychosomatic medicine to present and test a theoretical model of the classification of clinical somatic symptoms. The theoretical model consists of four dimensions: emotional somatic symptoms, biological somatic symptoms, imaginative somatic symptoms, and cognitive somatic symptoms. METHOD A clinical somatic symptom classification scale was de...

OBJECTIVE The exploratory study described in this article followed two groups of patients over a twelve-month period. Subjects were drawn from a pool of patients who had consulted their general practitioner during the three-month selection period. One group consisted of patients who had consulted their general practitioner at least once about a physical complaint that the GP regarded as predomi...

Somatic complaints are often related to chronic stressrelated illnesses, but the diagnoses are not obvious in all cases. In some cases, patients could be classified with functional somatic syndromes. These syndromes are defined as several related disease-conditions that are characterized more by symptoms, suffering, and disability than by structural or functional abnormalities [1]. Functional s...

Background : During the COVID-19 pandemic, many individuals were concerned about being infected. Meanwhile, elderly felt isolated due to detrimental effect on their mental and physical health. Therefore, this study aimed identify health issues suffered by during pandemic. The most frequent assessed are sleep deprivation, loss of appetite, psychosomatic complaints.Method This is a descriptive-an...