Do Diagnostic Criteria for Psychosomatic Research Explain Diagnosis of Medically Unexplained Somatic Symptoms?

Desai, Geetha; Chaturvedi, Santosh K.

doi:10.1159/000441063

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“…Such bodily symptoms are often accompanied by psychobehavioral features such as high health anxiety and bodily checking behaviors. The spectrum of severity is wide, ranging from mild symptoms with little functional impairment to severely disabling conditions [2,8]. …”

Section: The Clinical Problem: a Matter Of Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Management of Functional Somatic Syndromes and Bodily Distress

Henningsen

Zipfel²,

Sattel³

et al. 2018

Psychother Psychosom

242

182

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Functional somatic syndromes (FSS), like irritable bowel syndrome or fibromyalgia and other symptoms reflecting bodily distress, are common in practically all areas of medicine worldwide. Diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to these symptoms and syndromes vary substantially across and within medical specialties from biomedicine to psychiatry. Patients may become frustrated with the lack of effective treatment, doctors may experience these disorders as difficult to treat, and this type of health problem forms an important component of the global burden of disease. This review intends to develop a unifying perspective on the understanding and management of FSS and bodily distress. Firstly, we present the clinical problem and review current concepts for classification. Secondly, we propose an integrated etiological model which encompasses a wide range of biopsychosocial vulnerability and triggering factors and considers consecutive aggravating and maintaining factors. Thirdly, we systematically scrutinize the current evidence base in terms of an umbrella review of systematic reviews from 2007 to 2017 and give recommendations for treatment for all levels of care, concentrating on developments over the last 10 years. We conclude that activating, patient-involving, and centrally acting therapies appear to be more effective than passive ones that primarily act on peripheral physiology, and we recommend stepped care approaches that translate a truly biopsychosocial approach into actual management of the patient.

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Section: The Clinical Problem: a Matter Of Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Management of Functional Somatic Syndromes and Bodily Distress

Henningsen

Zipfel²,

Sattel³

et al. 2018

Psychother Psychosom

242

182

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“…The psychometric properties of the DCPR have been examined in Europe [2,4]. The DCPR has been translated into several languages [5,6,7], but it did not have a Chinese version. We wanted to determine if it was suitable for application in an Asian population and whether or not the clustering in DCPR in Asia is similar to that found in Europe.…”

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Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of the Diagnostic Criteria for Psychosomatic Research

Huang

Liao²

2017

Psychother Psychosom

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“…The DCPR system has been used both in Western [5] and Eastern countries [6,7,8]. This is the first report on the occurrence of DCPR syndromes in Polish chronic medical patients.…”

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confidence: 99%