Somatization or psychosomatic symptoms?

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypertensive diseases in pregnancy (HDP) are a great challenge for healthcare providers. OBJECTIVE:The study aimed to investigate the experience of women developing HDP with different stressors associated with healthcare after a diagnosis of HDP. METHOD:A self- administered questionnaire referring to stres...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Leeners B,Stiller R,Neumaier-Wagner P,Kuse S,Schmitt A,Rath W

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bell's mania (mania with delirium) is an acute neurobehavioral syndrome of unknown etiology that is characterized by the rapid onset of grandiosity, psychomotor excitement, emotional lability, psychosis, and sleep disruption consistent with mania, coupled with alterations in sensorium, and disorientation cha...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Bobo WV,Murphy MJ,Heckers SH

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the Millon Behavioral Health Inventory Life Threat Reactivity Scale (LTRS) as a predictor of mortality in patients awaiting heart transplantation. The one-year mortality while awaiting cardiac transplantation was more than double for the high-risk group based on the LTRS scores. The high-risk group...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Coffman KL,Brandwin M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 4 million people in the United States are chronically infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), and, if untreated, over 20% of these will progress to more serious disease. Persons with severe mental illness (SMI) have markedly elevated rates of HCV infection, but treatment of persons with SMI and HCV has been contro...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Mistler LA,Brunette MF,Marsh BJ,Vidaver RM,Luckoor R,Rosenberg SD

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Individuals with co-existing serious mental illness and non-psychiatric medical illness are at high risk of acute care utilization. Mining of electronic health record data can help identify and categorize predictors of psychiatric hospital readmission in this population. OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to identi...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Edgcomb J,Shaddox T,Hellemann G,Brooks JO 3rd

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the psychological factors associated with self-excoriative behavior among 56 women (mean +/- SE age: 24.0 +/- 1.0 years) with mild-to-moderate facial acne vulgaris. Ratings associated with poor self-concept, such as perfectionistic and compulsive personality traits, correlated more strongly with s...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Gupta MA,Gupta AK,Schork NJ

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable data have demonstrated that psychological states can influence the immune system in animals. Whether human immune function can be intentionally modulated by the central nervous system is unknown. This article presents data from two studies that sought to demonstrate intentional modulation of the immune sy...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Smith GR,Conger C,O'Rourke DF,Steele RW,Charlton RK,Smith SS

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As clinical ethicists increasingly populate hospital settings, a definition of their roles and responsibilities vis à vis those of consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatrists remains a matter of both interest and uncertainty. Both fields share certain evolutionary and ideological features, yet until very recently, psychi...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Youngner SJ

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Identify the frequency with which pediatric care teams recognize delirium in patients referred for psychiatric consultation, whether their diagnosis is substantiated by the involved consultant, and whether this diagnosis is documented in the discharge problem list. METHODS:A retrospective chart review was co...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Kelly P,Frosch E

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examines the use of substance abuse and mental health services among older adults with substance use disorders. METHODS:Participants were members of Humana Cares, a subsidiary of Humana, Inc., a care management program for chronically ill Medicare Advantage members, between 2008 and 2010. All adul...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Huang H,Chan YF,Bauer AM,Suzuki J,Katon W,Russo J,Hogan D,Unützer J

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite attention to depression and cognitive disorders, the prevalence of other mental disorders following breast cancer chemotherapy has not been well described. The authors undertook a pilot study using insurance claims data to compare the prevalence of mental disorders other than depression in a population of brea...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Miller SL,Jones LE,Carney CP

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe personality disorder has been proposed as a contraindication for liver transplantation. Seventy-three subjects with alcoholic-related liver disease were evaluated for personality disorder and followed for 6 months. The subjects with severe personality disorder had higher rates of divorce, higher rates of comorb...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Yates WR,LaBrecque DR,Pfab D

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors aim to facilitate the psychiatric evaluation of death-hastening decisions, such as cessation of life-support treatment or physician-assisted suicide, by deriving principles for evaluating patients from a literature review and a recently completed prospective study on dialysis discontinuation conducted by c...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Cohen LM,Steinberg MD,Hails KC,Dobscha SK,Fischel SV

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Psychiatric consultations involving the evaluation of patients' medical decision-making capacity often seem to have little to do with truly compromised patient autonomy. OBJECTIVE:The authors seek to examine hidden ethical dilemmas that lead to capacity evaluation requests. METHOD:The authors utilize the "...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Kontos N,Freudenreich O,Querques J

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychotropic drugs are frequently used in both psychiatric and general medical practice. Familiarity with common side effects and their management may assist psychiatrists in the selection of agents to suit individual patient needs. The authors describe the morphologic features and pathologic basis of cutaneous reacti...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： MacMorran WS,Krahn LE

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The implementation of emergency codes has become standard practice in hospitals to provide system-wide preparedness for the early detection and prevention of crises. Psychiatric emergencies in medical/surgical locations, however, are not typically regarded as distinct entities from general security threats. ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Parker CB

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although anesthetics have been used for more than a century, their mechanisms of action remain poorly understood. Given that a number of intraoperative and postoperative neuropsychiatric syndromes have been linked to the use of anesthetics, practitioners should familiarize themselves with these conditions. ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Gross AF,Stern TA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is the major psychiatric complication of Parkinson's disease, and it occurs in approximately one-third of all cases. Diagnosis of depression is complicated by the overlap of depressive and parkinsonian symptoms. Its etiology is not fully understood but involves changes in dopamine and serotonin. Depression ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Guze BH,Barrio JC

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatizing patients present a history of vague, unexplained medical symptoms. This study compared somatizing patients with pulmonary control subjects by using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS-III-R), the Illness Attitude Scales (IAS), and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2). The groups diffe...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Labott SM,Preisman RC,Torosian T,Popovich J Jr,Iannuzzi MC

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to identify the proximate causes through which dementia and delirium extend length of stay (LOS) in elderly general hospital patients. Among 93 patients age >/=65 years admitted to a tertiary-care teaching hospital through the emergency department, admission ratings of cognitive impairmen...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Saravay SM,Kaplowitz M,Kurek J,Zeman D,Pollack S,Novik S,Knowlton S,Brendel M,Hoffman L

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression is commonly reported in patients after cardiac surgery and increases the risk of postoperative cardiac morbidity or mortality or both. Although preoperative depression has been implicated as the strongest predictor of depression after surgery, the characteristics thought to influence reactive or p...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Patron E,Messerotti Benvenuti S,Palomba D

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The loss of a baby causes severe short- and long-term distress to parents and their marital relationship, but little is known about how this distress is shared between spouses. The authors hypothesized that the grief-related concordance within a couple 2 to 6 years after the loss of a premature baby could be...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Büchi S,Mörgeli H,Schnyder U,Jenewein J,Glaser A,Fauchère JC,Ulrich Bucher H,Sensky T

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of 294 consecutive medical inpatients, the authors assessed a subsample of 157 patients for psychiatric diagnoses using an extensive semistructured interview, Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN). Patients rated their health and physical functioning, and medical consultants assessed t...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Hansen MS,Fink P,Frydenberg M,Oxhøj ML,Søndergaard L,Eriksen M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated screening abilities of self-report questionnaires for depression in first myocardial infarction (MI) patients. One month post-MI, 206 patients with first MI were screened for major and minor depression using the 90-item Symptom Check List (SCL-90), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Hospital...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Strik JJ,Honig A,Lousberg R,Denollet J

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychoneuroimmunology represents the newest interdisciplinary endeavor relevant to psychosomatic medicine. Work in this area is particularly exciting because it promises to reveal a more unified view of the individual and the complex interactions between social, psychological, neural, endocrinological, immunological, ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Daruna JH,Morgan JE

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the prevalence of somatoform disorders (SDs) in primary care, a questionnaire including the modified 25-item version of the Symptom Checklist-90 was administered to 191 patients consecutively consulting their family physician. A stratified sample of the patients was interviewed with the Schedules for Clinical...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Fink P,Sørensen L,Engberg M,Holm M,Munk-Jørgensen P

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of the psychiatric literature advocates vigorous confrontation of patients with factitious physical disorder. Believing that such a strategy often drives the patient to a new physician, the author developed alternatives to confrontation. These strategies include use of inexact interpretations of psychological def...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Eisendrath SJ

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study is to describe past traumatic experiences in medically-admitted pediatric and young adult patients diagnosed with somatoform disorders and to explore the demographic, diagnostic, and psychosocial differences between those with and without trauma histories. METHODS:Retrospective medi...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Thomson K,Randall E,Ibeziako P,Bujoreanu IS

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Delirium is a serious postoperative condition for which few pharmacologic prevention trials have been conducted. OBJECTIVE:The authors tested the efficacy of perioperative olanzapine administration to prevent postoperative delirium in elderly patients after joint-replacement surgery. METHOD:The authors con...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Larsen KA,Kelly SE,Stern TA,Bode RH Jr,Price LL,Hunter DJ,Gulczynski D,Bierbaum BE,Sweeney GA,Hoikala KA,Cotter JJ,Potter AW

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors determined whether diagnoses of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and CVD-related conditions differed by psychiatric diagnosis among male Veterans Administration patients from the mid-Atlantic region. Among 7,529 patients (mean age: 54.5 years), the prevalence of diagnoses ranged from 3.6% (stroke) to 35.4% (hy...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Kilbourne AM,Brar JS,Drayer RA,Xu X,Post EP

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00