[Assessment of sociodynamic parameters and critical life change events in functional epigastric syndromes within the...

In a rural district 187 patients with functional upper abdominal syndromes were examined in a neurological outpatient department by means of a clinical epidemiological questionnaire (46 parameters) and a modified life-event-inventory by Holmes and Rahe (56 items), expanded multidimensionally by subjective parameters of events. The epidemiological and stress-theoretical start of examination aimed at the result whether both methods in practice can help individually for a diagnostics fixed to therapy of psychosomatically sick persons. The representation of some results is limited to the sphere of work. One third of all patients mentioned conflicts in this field. Life-events belonging to the sphere of work with highly emotional filling by stress-experience were mentioned by the half of all patients. Both methods allow a more structured recording of the life-situation, of specific charges, of the individual kind of experience and a faster approach to the sphere of motivations, to problems of the development of such persons and their competencies to overcome these problems, as well as both methods allow an intelligibility of the genesis of this disease.