OBJECTIVE Pediatric somatization studies have used the 35-item Child Somatization Inventory (CSI-35) or psychometrically refined 24-item CSI (CSI-24). Exploratory factor analysis of the CSI-24 has identified a single factor that did not show good model fit in confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Further evaluation of the CSI-24 factor structure is needed. METHODS The present study examined alt...

The aim of the current systematic review and meta-analysis was to examine prevalence incidence somatoform symptoms disorders (also referred as medically unexplained symptoms, psychosomatic functional syndromes, somatization disorder, or somatic symptom disorder) in childhood adolescence. PRISMA guidelines were followed, registered prior initiation (PROSPERO CRD42022339735). Fitting search terms...

PURPOSE This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of various learning styles among medical students and their correlations with academic achievement and mental health problems in these students. METHODS This study was conducted among 140 first-year medical students of Chiang Mai University, Thailand in 2014. The participants completed the visual-aural-read/write-kinesthetic (VARK) questi...

Psychiatrists and other physicians are usually familiar with factitious disorders, but attorneys and judges usually are not. Cases involving factitious disorders may enter the civil legal system in a number of ways and cause incorrect judgements, financial costs, and inappropriate medical care if these disorders are not identified. Psychiatric consultants may play a key role in identifying thes...

This study attempts to determine whether the presentation of an experimentally manipulated somatic experience during a physically strenuous task can influence physical performance and symptom reporting. The study also compares the relative influence of experimentally manipulated somatic information (state somatization) with stable individual differences in the tendency to amplify physical sympt...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate predictors of somatization and pain reactivity in childhood. METHODS Facial expressions of children undergoing inoculation were scored for pain reactivity. Measures of temperament, pain experience, pain models, parental behavior, and parental ability to decode pain were examined for their ability to predict pain reactivity and somatization in a structural modeling analys...

BACKGROUND Somatisation disorder can result from an interplay between suboptimal family environment and socio-economic deprivation, which enhances the underlying cognitive tendency for this disorder. There are pertinent familial and socio-economic factors associated with this disorder, but research addressing this is sparse. AIM AND SETTING: The study aims to evaluate family and socio-economic ...

BACKGROUND Exposure to violence in general and to armed conflict in particular has been consistently associated with an increased prevalence of mental illness. Colombia has sustained an internal armed conflict for decades and is considered one of the most violent countries in the world. However, certain areas have been more exposed to the conflict than others. METHODS This is a cross sectiona...