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G Hariharan1, A N Ramakrishnan, N Mathrubootham
1G. Hariharan, Chief Psychiatrist & Chief Hospital Supdt., Railway Hospital, Madras - 600 023.
Abstract:
A group of psychiatric outpatients who satisfied the DSM-IIIR criteria for Somatization Disorder (n=33) were compared with a group of other Somatisers (n=32). The results show that somatization disorder was found predominantly in females. Their mean age was 31 and they had a lower income and poor educational level, with more life events and stress in the family. The main symptoms were gastrointestinal, cardiopulmonary, pain and conversion followed by menstrual and sexual symptoms. They were more extroverted, neurotic and anxious depressed with significant basic neurotic traits. These results are discussed.
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