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Abstract Somatic symptoms disorders are a group of disorders in which physical symptoms (e.g. pain or loss of function) are inconsistent and cannot be explained by a known medical condition. The somatic symptoms disorders are a group of psychiatric disorders in which patients present with clinically significant but unexplained physical symptoms. They include somatic symptom disorders, undifferentiated somatoform disorder, hypochondriasis, conversion disorder, pain disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, and somatoform disorder not otherwise specified. These disorders often cause significant emotional distress for patients and are a challenge to family physicians. Depressive and anxiety disorders are among the most common mental disorders in the general population, with 12-month prevalence rates ranging from 1.8% for panic disorder to 6.9% for major depressive disorder. Extensive evidence suggests that depressive and anxiety disorders are strongly related to somatic symptoms. The aim of work of the current study was to study the prevalence of somatic symptoms disorders in Menoufia university hospitals and to study the somatic symptoms disorder comorbidity with anxiety and depression. To elucidate this aim 255 patients with somatic symptoms disorders were included in the current study. This study included 255 patients with somatic symptoms disorders. Their age ranged from 18 to 51 years with mean age 31.98 years. Female represented 69.4% of them. About 32% were illiterate while 36.5% received high education. Patients were categorized as somatic symptom disorder (49%), conversion disorder (25.1%), factitious disorder (10.6%), illness anxiety disorder (10.6%) and psychological factors affecting mother medical condition (4.7%) with statistically significant difference in distribution. In the present study, 41.6% had extreme depression and 58% had moderate anxiety. There is statistically significant relation between type of somatoform disorder and sex, age, education, occupation, and marital status. |