Search results for "somatoform disorder"

Modern health worries and idiopathic environmental intolerance.

2008

Abstract Objective We conducted two studies to test whether modern health worries (MHWs) were associated with central features of a condition called idiopathic environmental intolerance (IEI) and medical care utilization. Methods In Study 1, 474 Internet users completed an Internet-based questionnaire that assessed MHWs, IEI features, and medical care utilization. In Study 2, the diagnostic specificity of MHWs was investigated by comparing the level of MHWs of three diagnostic groups: 46 people with IEI, 38 people with somatoform disorder but without IEI, and 46 people with neither IEI nor somatoform disorder. Results The good psychometric properties of the MHW scale were confirmed. MHWs we…

Mente e salute: studio epidemiologico sulla prevalenza di patologie somatiche nei disturbi depressivi

2010

Data for: Medically unexplained symptoms in children and adolescents: Illness-related self-concept and parental symptom evaluations

2020

Final data set for MUS in children and adolescents THIS DATASET IS ARCHIVED AT DANS/EASY, BUT NOT ACCESSIBLE HERE. TO VIEW A LIST OF FILES AND ACCESS THE FILES IN THIS DATASET CLICK ON THE DOI-LINK ABOVE

Differentiating hypochondriasis from panic disorder

2003

Hypochondriasis and panic disorder are both characterized by prevalent health anxieties and illness beliefs. Therefore, the question as to whether they represent distinct nosological entities has been raised. This study examines how clinical characteristics can be used to differentiate both disorders, taking the possibility of mixed symptomatologies (comorbidity) into account. We compared 46 patients with hypochondriasis, 45 with panic disorder, and 21 with comorbid hypochondriasis plus panic disorder. While panic patients had more comorbidity with agoraphobia, hypochondriasis was more closely associated with somatization. Patients with panic disorder were less pathological than hypochondri…

Evidence for a specific link between the personality trait of absorption and idiopathic environmental intolerance.

2008

Absorption as a personality trait refers to the predisposition to get deeply immersed in sensory (e.g., smells, sounds, pictures) or mystical experiences, that is, to experience altered states of consciousness. Absorption is markedly related to constructs openness to experiences, hypnotic suggestibility, imagination, and dissociation. Although absorption was hypothesized to be a risk factor for medically unexplained symptoms (MUS), the construct has yet not been investigated in individually suffering from idiopathic environmental intolerance (IEI), formerly better known as multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS). IEI is a complex condition marked by MUS, which patients attribute to various chem…

Psychoanalytically-Oriented Inpatient Psychotherapy of Somatoform Disorders

2008

Somatoform disorders have been neglected in psychoanalytic publications. Unlike the descriptive approach of DSM-IV and ICD-10, sophisticated psychoanalytical models have been proposed for many years explaining the development of physical symptoms without definable medical cause. Based on a review of the psychoanalytic models of somatization and conversion, this article explores difficulties in the medical and psychotherapeutic treatments of somatoform disorders. The unique tradition of psychosomatic inpatient treatment in Germany is illustrated by the psychoanalytic treatment setting at the University of Mainz. A case report of a somatoform patient shows how childhood trauma is activated an…

Manualized psychodynamic-interactional group therapy for the treatment of somatoform pain disorders.

2010

Medically unexplained and clinically significant symptoms of pain are highly prevalent in the general population. More than one third of all patients in general practices and various departments of hospitals suffer from somatoform disorders with pain being the main complaint of 70% of these patients. This treatment manual is the first disorder-specific, psychodynamically oriented treatment for these patients. Based on psychodynamic-interactional group psychotherapy, it focuses on disorder-specific aspects as well as on psychic and interpersonal problems which have resulted from adverse childhood experiences and insecure attachment. In three treatment phases comprising an “information and mo…

Opioid tolerance and dependence -- do they matter?

2004

The use of opioids has long been accepted as the standard of care in patients with cancer and acute pain. Opioids can further be used effectively in specific subgroups of patients with chronic nonmalignant pain states. While the development of tolerance and physical dependence are known effects of opioids in cancer and noncancer pain populations, these patients can not be regarded as addicted. However, long-term therapy with short-acting opioids predisposes to tolerance and addiction. Recent research has confirmed the important role of psychopathologic and psychosocial conditions as predictors of failed opioid effectiveness in a significant number of noncancer pain subgroups. The clinical p…

Somatoforma veģetatīva disfunkcija farmaceita praksē

2020

Ar terminu “somatoforma veģetatīva disfunkcija” (SVD) tiek apzīmēti ķermeņa funkciju un sajūtu traucējumi, gadījumos, kad objektīvs un medicīniski izskaidrojams šo traucējumu iemesls netiek atrasts. Cilvēki ar SVD izjūt dažādus simptomus, piemēram, trauksmi, nemieru, paaugstinātu uzbudināmību, sāpes, kuņģa-zarnu trakta darbības traucējumus, sirds un asinsvadu sistēmas traucējumus, kas izraisa pastāvīgu uztraukumu un diskomfortu. Šie pacienti pārmērīgi meklē medicīnisko palīdzību un mierinājumu, bet viņiem ir grūti pieņemt ne patoloģiskus rezultātus medicīniskajā izmeklēšanā. SVD ir grūti diagnosticējama un prasa vairāku speciālistu palīdzību, ka arī paša cilvēka izturību un līdzestību. SVD …