Psychological and behavioral variables associated with the somatic symptom severity of general hospital outpatients in China

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 297-303

  Schaefert, Rainer ^a   Höner, Claudia ^b   Salm, Florian ^b   Wirsching, Michael ^b   Leonhart, Rainer ^c   Yang, Jianzhong ^d   Wei, Jing ^e   Lu, Wei ^f   Larisch, Astrid ^g   Fritzsche, Kurt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d Red Cross Hospital of Yunnan Province   (China)

^e Union Hospital   (China)

^f Shijitan Hospital   (China)

^g JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

PHQ 15; Psychological and behavioral characteristics; Somatic symptom disorder; Somatic symptom severity; Somatoform disorders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRIEF ILLNESS PERCEPTION QUESTIONNAIRE; CHINA; CHINESE MEDICINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE 15; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCALE FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING FOR SOMATOFORM DISORDER 2; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT FORM 12; SOMATOFORM DISORDER;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84876953449     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: 18737714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2012.11.001     Document Type: Article

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