Somatic Complaints in Older Adults: Aging Process or Symptoms of Depression?

Somatic symptoms in depression

Both painful and nonpainful somatic symptoms essentially characterize clinical states of depressive mood. So far, this well-established psychopathological knowledge has been appreciated only insufficiently by the official diagnostic systerms of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV TR) and the ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioral...

[Somatic symptoms of depression].

OBJECTIVE The somatic component of depression is an important clinical phenomenon. The role of somatic amplification, alexithymia, anger and symptom attribution has been investigated in the genesis of the somatic symptoms of depression. METHOD The study was carried out with 32 patients attending the outpatient psychiatry clinics of Karadeniz Technical University Medical School, meeting the di...

Age and sex differences in somatic complaints associated with depression.

Following the procedure used by Zemore and Eames (1979) with the Beck Depression Inventory, the 20 items of the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale were categorized as either somatic or psychological symptoms of depression. Scores of 179 college students and 462 community-dwelling older adults revealed significant, though small, age differences in somatic complaints. Somatic complaints were espec...

Somatic Symptoms in Depression in Primary Care

Depression and somatic symptoms scale: a new scale with both depression and somatic symptoms emphasized.

The authors' preliminary study selected 22 items for Depression and Somatic Symptoms Scale (DSSS), including depression subscale (DS) and somatic subscale (SS). The aim of the study was to test reliability and validity of the DSSS. The study enrolled 135 consecutive outpatients (34 male and 101 female) experiencing a major depressive episode (the MDE group), 95 of whom (25 male and 70 female) a...