Clinical Features and Related Factors of Somatoform Disorders in General Hospital Wards / 中国心理卫生杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective: To investigate the prevalence, clinical characters and related factors of somatoform disorder in general hospital ward. Methods:By the SD criterion of ICD-10 and the Questionnaire for Inpatients we screened the somatoform disorder patients in general hospital wards, and compared psychosomatic symptoms of the SD patients and the patients with physical disease by SCL-90 scale.Results:42 inpatients were diagnosed as SD among 1012 inpatients. The most common somatic symptoms of SD included chronic pain, gastrointestinal and parasympathetic symptoms. SD inpatients were younger than body disease inpatients(t=2.32,P