Patients' Perspectives on the Usability of a Blended Approach to an Integrated Intervention for Patients With Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms: Mixed Methods Study. [PDF]
Background Medically unexplained physical symptoms are physical symptoms, such as pain, fatigue, and dizziness, that persist for more than a few weeks and cannot be explained after adequate medical examination.
Toonders SAJ +5 more
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Evaluation of Tools to Assess Symptoms and Symptom Severity in Patients With Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis. [PDF]
A substantial portion of patients presenting to healthcare settings exhibit physical symptoms lacking clear, demonstrable organic causes. Accurate assessment of symptom severity is crucial for documenting outcomes and establishing treatment efficacy ...
Kuanar Baboo AG +9 more
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Racial/ethnic differences in general physical symptoms and medically unexplained physical symptoms: Investigating the role of education. [PDF]
Objectives: Distressing physical symptoms (e.g., back pain, nausea), many of which lack medical explanation, are a common cause for medical help seeking.
Evangelidou S +4 more
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Objective: Understanding psychological mechanisms of change is essential to advance treatments for patients suffering from medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS).
Tomas Rihacek +2 more
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Development, Validation, and Feasibility of a Yoga-based Module for Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms [PDF]
Background: Medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) involve persistent symptoms such as pain, fatigue, and gastrointestinal issues without a clear medical cause, often linked to psychological factors.
Ananta Gopal Kuanar Baboo +5 more
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Psychiatric Aspects of Medically Unexplained Symptoms [PDF]
The patients with medically unexplained symptoms for their physical symp-toms are generally prevalent in the primary care consultation. Such patient, frequently consume primary and secondary healthcare services and it is a situa-tion that disappointed ...
Gokhan Kandemir, Ismail Ak
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Medically unexplained physical symptoms in the aftermath of disasters. [PDF]
Many studies have examined the health problems amongsurvivors of disasters, showing that the most frequentlyreported symptoms after disasters are mental health prob-lems, such as posttraumatic stress symptoms, depression,and anxiety (1, 2).In the last decade, the Netherlands was struck by a fewnational disasters.
Cj Yzermans, Erik Lebret, Linda Grievink
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Association of Somatic Symptom Severity With Sociodemographic Parameters In Patients With Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms: A Cross-Sectional Study From a Tertiary Care Center in India. [PDF]
Background There is a paucity of studies assessing the severity of somatic symptoms in medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) from Medicine outpatient department (OPD).
Baitha U +7 more
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Medically unexplained physical symptoms
Abstract Medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) are physical symptoms that trigger the sufferer to seek healthcare, but which remain unexplained after appropriate medical assessment. They are very common, and cause significant distress and disability.
Price, Jonathan, Price, JR
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Demographic and health-related factors associated with reduced work functioning in people with moderate medically unexplained physical symptoms: a cross-sectional study. [PDF]
Background Medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) are a leading cause of reduced work functioning. It is not known which factors are associated with reduced work functioning in people with moderate MUPS. Insight in these factors can contribute to
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