Prevalence and diagnostic distribution of medically unexplained painful somatic symptoms across 571 major depressed outpatients

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 217-221

  Fornaro, Michele ^a   Maremmani, Icro ^b,c   Canonico, Pier Luigi ^d   Carbonatto, Paolo ^e   Mencacci, Claudio ^f   Muscettola, Giovanni ^g   Pani, Luca ^h   Torta, Riccardo ⁱ   Vampini, Claudio ^j   Parazzini, Fabio ^k   Dumitriu, Arina ^l   Perugi, Giulio ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c G DE LISIO INSTITUTE OF BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^e Societa' Italiana di Medicina Generale (SIMG) Turin   (Italy)

^f FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^h CNR   (Italy)

ⁱ MOLINETTE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^j MAGGIORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^k GPA Net   (Italy)

^l Boehringer Ingelheim Italia SpA   (Italy)

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Author keywords

BD; Bipolar disorder; Major depressive episode; MDE

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DEPRESSION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 80053638933     PISSN: 11766328     EISSN: 11782021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/NDT.S17949     Document Type: Article

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