A CLINICAL STUDY OF SOMATISING PATIENTS ATTENDING PSYCHIATRIC OUTPATIENT CLINIC

Patients presenting with bodily symptoms without any demonstrable physical basis were studied. Somatisation was observed in more than 80% of the sample studied. A higher percentage of somatisers were found in females, age groups 35-44 and above 55, unmarried and illiterate groups. Housewives formed...

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Autores principales: Chadda, R.K., Bhatia, M.S.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1990
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989567/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21927425
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description Patients presenting with bodily symptoms without any demonstrable physical basis were studied. Somatisation was observed in more than 80% of the sample studied. A higher percentage of somatisers were found in females, age groups 35-44 and above 55, unmarried and illiterate groups. Housewives formed the largest group of somatisers amongst different occupations. Common diagnoses amongst somatisers were neurotic depression, hysterical neurosis, anxiety neurosis and endogenous depression.
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spelling pubmed-29895672011-09-16 A CLINICAL STUDY OF SOMATISING PATIENTS ATTENDING PSYCHIATRIC OUTPATIENT CLINIC Chadda, R.K. Bhatia, M.S. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Patients presenting with bodily symptoms without any demonstrable physical basis were studied. Somatisation was observed in more than 80% of the sample studied. A higher percentage of somatisers were found in females, age groups 35-44 and above 55, unmarried and illiterate groups. Housewives formed the largest group of somatisers amongst different occupations. Common diagnoses amongst somatisers were neurotic depression, hysterical neurosis, anxiety neurosis and endogenous depression. Medknow Publications 1990 /pmc/articles/PMC2989567/ /pubmed/21927425 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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A CLINICAL STUDY OF SOMATISING PATIENTS ATTENDING PSYCHIATRIC OUTPATIENT CLINIC
title A CLINICAL STUDY OF SOMATISING PATIENTS ATTENDING PSYCHIATRIC OUTPATIENT CLINIC
title_full A CLINICAL STUDY OF SOMATISING PATIENTS ATTENDING PSYCHIATRIC OUTPATIENT CLINIC
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title_short A CLINICAL STUDY OF SOMATISING PATIENTS ATTENDING PSYCHIATRIC OUTPATIENT CLINIC
title_sort clinical study of somatising patients attending psychiatric outpatient clinic
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