The association of sexual and physical abuse with somatization: Characteristics of patients presenting with irritable bowel syndrome and non-epileptic attack disorder

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 399-406

  Reilly, J ^b   Baker, G A ^b   Rhodes, J ^b   Salmon, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ABUSE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; IRRITABLE COLON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; SEIZURE; SEXUAL ABUSE; SOCIAL DISABILITY; SOMATIZATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROHN DISEASE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 0033064187     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291798007892     Document Type: Article

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