The relationship between cognitive functions, somatization and behavioural coping in patients with multiple functional somatic symptoms

Nordic Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 216-224

  Hall, Nicoline M ^a   Kuzminskyte, Ruta ^a   Pedersen, Anders D ^a   Ørnbøl, Eva ^a   Fink, Per ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cognitive functions; Coping; Functional somatic symptoms; Pain; Somatization

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CATASTROPHIZING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; COPING STRATEGIES QUESTIONNAIRE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MULTIPLE FUNCTIONAL SOMATIC SYMPTOM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PAIN; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SHORT FORM 36; SOMATIZATION; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WHITELEY 7 SCALE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PAIN; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79956115014     PISSN: 08039488     EISSN: 15024725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08039488.2010.528024     Document Type: Article

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