Childhood maltreatment in patients with somatization disorder

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 335-341

  Spitzer, Carsten ^a   Barnow, Sven ^a   Gau, Kay ^a   Freyberger, Harald J ^a   Grabe, Hans Joergen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Case control study; Childhood maltreatment; Sexual and physical abuse; Somatization; Somatization disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PREDICTION; PSYCHOTRAUMA; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOMATIZATION; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 40749138242     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00048670701881538     Document Type: Article

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