Maternal
somatic symptom severity was measured using the Patient Health Questionnaire - 15 (PHQ - 15).
Dysfunctional illness perception and illness behaviour associated with high
somatic symptom severity and low quality of life in general hospital outpatients in China
Not exact matches
These conditions have been subsumed under the rubric,
Somatic Symptom Disorder; a diagnosis which has been widened in the American Diagnostic Manuel, DSM - 5, to include conditions in which the medical practitioner considers that the
severity of the
symptoms is excessive and can not be explained physiologically by the nature of the lesion or the original insult.
Results from a one - way MANOVA revealed that patients with a premorbid and current psychiat - ric disorder reported significantly higher pain
severity, more
somatic symptoms, poorer sleep quality, and poorer quality of life than those with no psychiatric history.
Secondary outcomes were
somatic symptoms, pain
severity, health - related function, and mental health service use.
Severity of depressive
symptoms: the depression subscale of the DASS.15 The depression subscale does not include
somatic items, and is therefore less likely to be artificially inflated in a chronic pain setting.
Gender similarities in
somatic depression and in DSM depression secondary
symptom profiles within the context of
severity and bereavement.