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  • Title: Course and outcome of somatoform disorders in non-referred adolescents.
    Author: Essau CA.
    Journal: Psychosomatics; 2007; 48(6):502-9. PubMed ID: 18071097.
    Abstract:
    The author examined the course of somatoform disorders in non-referred adolescents. Somatoform disorders were coded from DSM-IV criteria, using the computerized Munich (Germany) version of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview. About 35.9% of the adolescents with somatoform disorders at the index investigation continued to have the same disorders at the follow-up investigation: 26.7% had anxiety, 17.1% had depression, 22% had substance-use disorders, and 53.7% had no psychiatric disorders. Factors related to the chronicity of somatoform disorders included gender, comorbid depressive disorders, parental psychiatric disorders, and negative life events. Somatoform disorders showed a heterogeneous pattern of course.
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