The personality traits neuroticism and alexithymia have been hypothesized as predisposing factors for somatization. Stability over time is a basic assumption underlying any trait construct. Although there are considerable (and sometimes conflicting) data relevant to this issue, the stability of neuroticism and alexithymia has not been assessed in somatization. The main purpose of this study was...

BACKGROUND Mindfulness-based therapy (MBT) has been used effectively to treat a variety of physical and psychological disorders, including depression, anxiety, and chronic pain. Recently, several lines of research have explored the potential for mindfulness-therapy in treating somatization disorders, including fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and irritable bowel syndrome. METHODS Thirt...

BACKGROUND Research has demonstrated a bidirectional relationship between physical function and depression, but studies on their association in migrant populations are scarce. We examined the association between mental health symptoms and mobility limitation in Russian, Somali and Kurdish migrants in Finland. METHODS We used data from the Finnish Migrant Health and Wellbeing Study (Maamu). Th...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine whether psychiatric disturbances, particularly somatization, and an increased number of traumatic and critical life events, which have been found in women with idiopathic chronic pelvic pain (ICPP), can also be observed in women with chronic pelvic pain and abdominal adhesions (ACPP). METHODS Forty women who underwent diagnostic laparoscop...

PURPOSE The Research Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders (RDC/TMD) axis II for psychosocial assessment was adopted to grade chronic pain severity and to correlate that severity with levels of depression and somatization in a population of chronic TMD patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS A series of 111 consecutive patients who sought treatment for TMD symptoms lasting longer than 6...

Objective: Somatic symptoms are more likely to be present in depression and anxiety, which causes waste medical resources due excessive hospital addmissions. It has been observed that the unclarity of qualitative quantitative characteristics somatization depending on type influences clinical practice less than expected. In study, it was aimed determine hallmarks somatic groups investigate facto...

Sport-related concussion with its associated physical and cognitive symptoms has become an area of widespread interest with respect to developing techniques to best manage acute concussion effects, determining when concussed athletes may return to play without increased risk of further injury, as well as evaluating the long-term effects from repeated concussions sustained over many years and th...

OBJECTIVE Some people report symptoms that they associate with electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure. These symptoms may be related to specific EMF sources or to electrical equipment in general (perceived electromagnetic hypersensitivity, EHS). Research and clinical observations suggest a difference between mobile phone (MP)-related symptoms and EHS with respect to symptom prevalence, psychologi...