Somatic symptom disorder, illness anxiety disorder, and functional syndromes are characterized by burdensome preoccupation with somatic symptoms. Etiological models propose either increased interoceptive accuracy through hypervigilance to the body, or ...
Carolin Wolters +2 more
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Physical Activity Decreases Somatic Symptom Distress in the Affect and Symptom Paradigm. [PDF]
Objective: According to recent empirical taxonomies (eg, the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology), somatic symptom distress represents a transdiagnostically relevant dimension of psychopathology.
Petzke TM +3 more
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Differential associations of depressive symptom dimensions with cardio-vascular disease in the community: results from the Gutenberg health study. [PDF]
A current model suggested that the somatic symptom dimension accounts for the adverse effect of depression in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD).
Matthias Michal +11 more
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Abstract Every individual experiences subjective somatic symptoms that might or might not be explained by a known medical condition. Some of these symptoms disappear quickly, whereas others persist. This chapter focuses mostly on symptoms that cannot be easily understood from a solely biomedical perspective, the so-called functional ...
Henningsen, Peter +2 more
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Network analysis in adolescent patients with somatic symptom disorders. [PDF]
Background Somatic symptom disorder (SSD) is one of the most common conditions in adolescents. Persistent symptoms are closely associated with impaired academic performance, reduced social functioning, high healthcare utilization, and increased risk of ...
Zheng D +5 more
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Somatic symptoms in sleep disturbance [PDF]
Despite sleep disturbance and somatic symptoms being common health complaints, the relationship between these disturbances and single somatic symptoms is not well documented. The objectives of this study were to (i) identify somatic symptoms that are particularly associated with sleep disturbance, here referred to as somatic symptoms related to sleep ...
Nordin, Gustav +3 more
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Somatic acupressure for the fatigue-sleep disturbance-depression symptom cluster in breast cancer survivors: A phase II randomized controlled trial [PDF]
Objective: To evaluate the feasibility of the somatic acupressure (SA) for managing the fatigue-sleep disturbance-depression symptom cluster (FSDSC) among breast cancer (BC) survivors and its preliminary effects.
Shun-Li Chen +13 more
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On Somatic Symptoms Measurement: The Scale for Assessment of Somatic Symptoms Revisited
Scale for assessment of somatic symptoms (SASS) has been widely used for assessing somatic complaints since many years. With impending changes in the classificatory system on somatoform disorders, we re- assessed the test-retest reliability and inter-rater reliability of SASS.SASS was administered twice with a gap of 24 h on 20 subjects for test retest
Geetha Desai +3 more
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The relative contribution of exposure to violence in predicting somatic symptom disorder among high school girls [PDF]
The research aims to reveal the extent to which exposure to violence as a whole contributes to predicting somatic symptom disorder among high school students.
Radwa Mohamed AL-Sayed Hassan +2 more
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Somatic symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder from the DSM-IV: Associations with pathological worry and depression symptoms in a nonclinical sample [PDF]
The present study investigates specificity of the six somatic symptoms that are associated with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), according to the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Joormann, Jutta +3 more
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