Syndrome stability and psychological predictors of symptom severity in idiopathic environmental intolerance and somatoform disorders

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 271-281

  Bailer, Josef ^a   Witthöft, Michael ^a   Bayerl, Christiane ^b   Rist, Fred ^c  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC ENVIRONMENTAL INTOLERANCE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOMATIZATION; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERCEPTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SMELL; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; SYNDROME;

EID: 33846520505     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291706009354     Document Type: Article

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