A STUDY OF SOMATIZATION DISORDER IN AN INDUSTRIAL HOSPITAL

A group of psychiatric outpatients who satisfied the DSM-IIIR criteria for Somatization Disorder (n=33) were compared with a group of other Somatisers (n=32). The results show that somatization disorder was found predominantly in females. Their mean age was 31 and they had a lower income and poor ed...

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Autores principales: Hariharan, G., Ramakrishnan, A.N., Mathrubootham, N.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1993
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2980639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21743644
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Ramakrishnan, A.N.
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description A group of psychiatric outpatients who satisfied the DSM-IIIR criteria for Somatization Disorder (n=33) were compared with a group of other Somatisers (n=32). The results show that somatization disorder was found predominantly in females. Their mean age was 31 and they had a lower income and poor educational level, with more life events and stress in the family. The main symptoms were gastrointestinal, cardiopulmonary, pain and conversion followed by menstrual and sexual symptoms. They were more extroverted, neurotic and anxious depressed with significant basic neurotic traits. These results are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-29806392011-07-08 A STUDY OF SOMATIZATION DISORDER IN AN INDUSTRIAL HOSPITAL Hariharan, G. Ramakrishnan, A.N. Mathrubootham, N. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article A group of psychiatric outpatients who satisfied the DSM-IIIR criteria for Somatization Disorder (n=33) were compared with a group of other Somatisers (n=32). The results show that somatization disorder was found predominantly in females. Their mean age was 31 and they had a lower income and poor educational level, with more life events and stress in the family. The main symptoms were gastrointestinal, cardiopulmonary, pain and conversion followed by menstrual and sexual symptoms. They were more extroverted, neurotic and anxious depressed with significant basic neurotic traits. These results are discussed. Medknow Publications 1993 /pmc/articles/PMC2980639/ /pubmed/21743644 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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