BACKGROUND Patients with chronic heart failure (HF) and with elevated depression symptoms are at greater risk of morbidity and mortality. Somatic symptoms of depression are particularly prevalent in HF and are related to worse disease prognosis. T'ai chi practice is related to increased emotional well-being in various clinical populations; however, relatively little is known about t'ai chi's ef...

it is not known whether such symptoms are generally experienced more often by patients in non-Western societies than among patients in the Western world. We are not aware of any multicultural study that has set out specifically to compare the prevalence of somatic symptoms in different ethnic groups using a comprehensive inventory of such symptoms. Many well established psychological scales suc...

BACKGROUND Unexplained symptoms are associated with depression and anxiety. This association is largely based on cross-sectional research of symptoms experienced by patients but not of symptoms presented to the GP. AIM To investigate whether unexplained symptoms as presented to the GP predict mental disorders. DESIGN AND SETTING Cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis of data from a pract...

Somatic complaints are often related to chronic stressrelated illnesses, but the diagnoses are not obvious in all cases. In some cases, patients could be classified with functional somatic syndromes. These syndromes are defined as several related disease-conditions that are characterized more by symptoms, suffering, and disability than by structural or functional abnormalities [1]. Functional s...

BACKGROUND Somatic symptom overlap between depression and insomnia has emerged as a major concern. Self-report measures such as the Beck Depression Inventory Second Edition (BDI-II) include somatic symptoms related to depression that are also present in the research diagnostic criteria for insomnia. This study aimed firstly to examine the relationship between the cognitive and somatic factors o...

OBJECTIVES To compare the effects of daily ingestion of dietary soy supplementation, low-dose hormone therapy (HT) and placebo on psychological, somatic and urogenital symptoms in postmenopausal women. STUDY DESIGN A double-blind, randomized, controlled trial. Sixty healthy, symptomatic, postmenopausal women of 40-60 years of age were allocated to use dietary soy supplementation (containing 9...