Medically unexplained physical symptoms, anxiety, and depression: A meta-analytic review

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 528-533

  Henningsen, Peter ^a   Zimmermann, Thomas ^b   Sattel, Heribert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Functional somatic syndromes; Meta analysis; Somatization; Somatoform

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPRESSION; DYSPEPSIA; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; META ANALYSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; PSYCHOSOMATICS; REVIEW; SOMATIZATION; SOMATOFORM DISORDER;

ANXIETY; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DYSPEPSIA; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 0041843834     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PSY.0000075977.90337.E7     Document Type: Review

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