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Intimate partner violence among women with somatoform disorders: A systematic review

Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2023
Background: Somatoform disorders and medically unexplained symptoms are reported to be common in women and associated with significant disability. Studies have shown that women experiencing Intimate Partner Violence are more likely to report somatic ...
Shruti Nair, Sushma Nataraj, Veena A Satyanarayana, Geetha Desai   +3 more
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The careful assessment tool for managing patients with medically unexplained symptoms – The experience of Slovenian family medicine trainees: A qualitative study

Slovenian Journal of Public Health, 2022
Primary care physicians use various tools and methods to identify medically unexplained symptoms (MUS). The main purpose of our study is to determine the views of Slovenian family medicine trainees (FMT) about using the “Careful Assessment” tool for ...
Ivetić Vojislav, Martinjak Špela, Maksuti Alem   +2 more
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Internists' dilemmas in their interactions with chronically ill patients; A comparison of their interaction strategies and dilemmas in two different medical contexts. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
Internists appear to define productive interactions, key concept of the Chronic Care Model, as goal-directed, catalyzed by achieving rapport, and depending on the medical context: i.e. medically explained symptoms (MES) or medically unexplained symptoms (
Nicolien M H Kromme, Kees T B Ahaus, Reinold O B Gans, Harry B M van de Wiel   +3 more
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Reasons for encounter and symptom diagnoses: a superior description of patients' problems in contrast to medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) [PDF]

Family Practice, 2012
This is a review of the literature on the role of symptoms in family practice, with a focus on the diagnostic approach in family medicine (FM). We found two, contrasting, approaches to reducing symptoms presented by patients in primary care, especially those which do not immediately allow the definition of a disease-label diagnosis.
Soler, Jean Karl, Okkes, Inge
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Persistent bilateral breast pain treated with traditional Kampo medicine

Journal of General and Family Medicine, 2021
A 45‐year‐old woman presented with persistent bilateral breast and axillary pain lasting for more than 3 months. Lengthy work‐up failed to identify the etiology. Physical examination was entirely normal, including breast examination.
Kentaro Iwata, Takashi Nishimoto
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Treatment and life goals among veterans with Gulf War illness.

PLoS ONE, 2023
Medically unexplained syndromes (MUS), also termed persistent physical symptoms, are both prevalent and disabling. Yet treatments for MUS are marked by high rates of patient dissatisfaction, as well as disagreement between patients and providers on the ...
Nicole Sullivan, Hannah Schorpp, Sarah Crosky, Scott Thien, Drew A Helmer, David R Litke, Wilfred R Pigeon, Karen S Quigley, Lisa M McAndrew   +8 more
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A descriptive study of disability in patients presenting with medically unexplained physical symptoms in a medical OPD setting

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2019
Introduction: Medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) are quite common in the primary care setting. These unexplained symptoms lead to physical, psychological, and functional disability increasing patient and caregiver distress. Methodology: Cross-
Goginani Ratnakara Rao, Piyush Ranjan, Rakesh K Chadda, G S Kaloiya, Sada N Dwivedi, Upendra Baitha, Manish Soneja, Ranveer S Jadon   +7 more
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The prognosis of medically unexplained symptoms [PDF]

, 2017
- The condition where someone has physical symptoms for a number of weeks for which no clear somatic cause can be found, is known as medically unexplained symptoms (MUS).- In this article we give an overview of current insights into the prognosis of MUS.-
Rosmalen, J G M; id_orcid, Knoop, H, Hanssen, D J C   +2 more
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Differences of medically unexplained symptoms among patients of different ages and sexes in the psychological clinic of a general hospital and the influencing factors of MUS: A cross-sectional study

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
ObjectiveTo analyse differences in sex, age, depression, insomnia, psychological stress, resilience, and perceived social support among patients with medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) in a psychological clinic of a general hospital, and to explore the influencing factors of MUS.MethodsThis is a cross-sectional study.
Jie Zhang, Yu Pan, Jiangyue Hong, Hong Guo, Mengyu Wang, Xiaolei Liu, Yanbin Dong, Dejun Wang, Lu Liu, Shuping Tan, Ronghuan Jiang   +10 more
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What Works in Mindfulness Interventions for Medically Unexplained Symptoms? A Systematic Review

Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal, 2020
Background/Purpose: Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have been used in medically unexplained symptoms (MUS). This systematic review describes the literature investigating the general effect of MBIs on MUS and identifies the effects of specific MBIs
Ruel Billones, Nada Lukkahatai, Leorey Saligan   +2 more
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