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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.