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Somatoform and Related Disorders in Children and Young People
Published in Cathy Laver-Bradbury, Margaret J.J. Thompson, Christopher Gale, Christine M. Hooper, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2021
Somatoform disorder: a disorder in which the main feature is ‘repeated presentation of physical symptoms, together with persistent requests for medical investigations, in spite of repeated negative findings and reassurances by doctors that the symptoms have no physical basis’ (ICD-10, WHO, 1992).
Fibromyalgia Associated Syndromes
Published in Robert M. Bennett, The Clinical Neurobiology of Fibromyalgia and Myofascial Pain, 2020
Somatoform Disorders. Somatoform disorders are a group of classified psychiatric disorders defined by the presence of physical symptoms that are not fully explained by a known medical condition. These disorders include somatization disorder, hypochondriasis, conversion disorder, and pain disorder (17). Somatization disorder, formerly called Briquet's syndrome, is diagnosed when an individual has multiple somatic complaints that begin before age 30, for which medical attention has been sought but the complaints are not due to a known physical disorder. To meet criteria for this disorder the individual must have at least eight unexplained symptoms over a lifetime. As defined, this condition is quite uncommon [0.1 to 1.0 percent of the population].
Fibromyalgia Syndrome: Canadian Clinical Working Case Definition, Diagnostic and Treatment Protocols–A Consensus Document
Published in I. Jon Russell, The Fibromyalgia Syndrome: A Clinical Case Definition for Practitioners, 2020
Anil Kumar Jain, Bruce M. Carruthers, Maijorie I. van de Sande, Stephen R. Barron, C. C. Stuart Donaldson, James V. Dunne, Emerson Gingrich, Dan S. Heffez, Y.-K. Frances Leung, Daniel G. Malone, Thomas J. Romano, I. Jon Russell, David Saul, Donald G. Seibel
Somatoform disorders: According to the DSM IV, Somatization Disorder must include four pain symptoms, two gastrointestional symptoms, one sexual symptom, and one pseudoneurological symptom, which cannot be explained by a general medical disorder. In addition, patients with Somatization Disorder usually have a long history of complaints beginning before age 30 whereas FMS generally has a discrete and often sudden onset and most commonly occurs between the ages of 35 and 50. The other somatoform disorders of Conversion Disorder, Pain Disorder, Hypochondriasis, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, and Undifferentiated Somatoform Disorder, also must be clearly unrelated to a general medical condition, or be the direct effects of substance abuse. The medical model of FMS shows numerous physiological abnormalities, which points to dysregulated pain physiology including CSF levels of substance P, abnormal cortisol levels, and those demonstrated by brain SPECT scans, etc. Somatization can only be diagnosed by excluding general medical conditions. The FMS and somatization disorders cannot both be diagnosed to explain the same set of symptoms in the same patient.
Association between sleep patterns, somatization, and depressive symptoms among Russian university students
Published in Chronobiology International, 2023
Sofia Dokuka, Oxana Mikhaylova, Ekaterina Krekhovets
Our study fills this research gap. Herein, we report the results of an online survey conducted in October 2021 to examine sleep’s role in the mental and somatic health of first-year master’s and bachelor’s degree students (N = 267) at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) University in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, somatization is defined as the tendency to experience and communicate somatic distress in response to psychosocial stress. It is most often associated with depressive and anxiety disorders and constitutes the core of somatoform disorders. It is an important medical, social, and economic problem (Lipowski 1988). Our study aim was to determine whether students’ sleep duration, social jetlag, and chronotype were associated with somatic and depressive symptoms.
Development of the Body-Relatedness Observation Scale: A feasibility study
Published in Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 2022
Hanneke Kalisvaart, Saskia van Broeckhuysen-Kloth, Jooske T. van Busschbach, Rinie Geenen
This study was conducted at a tertiary mental health center, specializing in the treatment of somatoform disorder and somatic symptom disorder. Patients admitted to this institution have had somatic symptoms on average for 10 years, have received about 5 previous treatments for somatoform disorder in primary or secondary care and have a comorbid mood, anxiety, or personality disorder in about half of the cases (Van der Boom and Houtveen, 2014). People referred to treatment for somatoform disorder completed self-report questionnaires and were assessed by a physical therapist as part of the diagnostic procedure. At the time of data collection in this study, somatoform disorder was diagnosed by trained psychologists according to DSM-IV-TR criteria (American Psychiatric Association, 2000) and confirmed by the resident medical doctor and psychiatrist.
One-session cognitive behavior treatment for long-term frequent attenders in primary care: randomized controlled trial
Published in Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2019
Sinikka Luutonen, Anne Santalahti, Mia Mäkinen, Tero Vahlberg, Päivi Rautava
Earlier, the effect of CBT interventions on attendance frequency and mental well-being has mainly been studied in patients with somatoform disorder or medically unexplained symptoms [11,12] or FAs with medically unexplained symptoms [13,14]. Sumathipala et al. [11] and Martin et al. [12] reported reduced attendance frequency and improved mental well-being, van Ravesteijn et al. [13] improved mental well-being and Baker et al. [14] reduced attendance frequency. In our study, only 13% of participants had a somatoform disorder. Possibly, FAs with somatoform disorders or medically unexplained symptoms are better candidates for CBT than FAs in general. To our knowledge, the study by Malins et al. [15] has been so far the only CBT study dealing with FAs without the inclusion criteria of somatoform disorders or medically unexplained symptoms. They showed a reduction in health care services and an improvement in mental health outcomes. However, they did not have a control group.