TRAIT ANXIETY PROFILE OF KORO PATIENTS

Koro is regarded as a psychogenic acute anxiety reaction since last forty years. In spite of quite a few research publications on koro during last twenty years, no report on psychometric assessment of anxiety level in Koro is available to substantiate this diagnostic status. The present study in thi...

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Autor principal: Chowdhury, Arabinda N.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1990
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2990848/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21927486
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description Koro is regarded as a psychogenic acute anxiety reaction since last forty years. In spite of quite a few research publications on koro during last twenty years, no report on psychometric assessment of anxiety level in Koro is available to substantiate this diagnostic status. The present study in this context is the first attempt of psychometric measurement of anxiety proneness or trait anxiety level in Koro patients. Trait anxiety measurement of 186 male Koro patients showed the presence ot higher level of trait anxiety in Koro than the normal sujects.
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spelling pubmed-29908482011-09-16 TRAIT ANXIETY PROFILE OF KORO PATIENTS Chowdhury, Arabinda N. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Koro is regarded as a psychogenic acute anxiety reaction since last forty years. In spite of quite a few research publications on koro during last twenty years, no report on psychometric assessment of anxiety level in Koro is available to substantiate this diagnostic status. The present study in this context is the first attempt of psychometric measurement of anxiety proneness or trait anxiety level in Koro patients. Trait anxiety measurement of 186 male Koro patients showed the presence ot higher level of trait anxiety in Koro than the normal sujects. Medknow Publications 1990 /pmc/articles/PMC2990848/ /pubmed/21927486 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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TRAIT ANXIETY PROFILE OF KORO PATIENTS
title TRAIT ANXIETY PROFILE OF KORO PATIENTS
title_full TRAIT ANXIETY PROFILE OF KORO PATIENTS
title_fullStr TRAIT ANXIETY PROFILE OF KORO PATIENTS
title_full_unstemmed TRAIT ANXIETY PROFILE OF KORO PATIENTS
title_short TRAIT ANXIETY PROFILE OF KORO PATIENTS
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