Meanings of somatization in English

Assessment of somatization may assist with treatment planning for children with functional abdominal pain.

Trait anxiety did not significantly add to prediction above somatization.

Severe depression, anxiety, somatization or PTSD symptoms negatively correlated with their overall satisfaction in South Korea.

These findings suggest that somatization and pain catastrophizing may be better treatment targets than anxiety and depression.

Alexithymia and somatization are emotional markers of psychological functioning that may explain these differences in quality of life.

Objective: The DSM-III-R diagnosis of somatization disorder requires that a patient have a specific number of medically unexplained somatic symptoms.

The results suggest that abridged somatization frequently coexists with depression and anxiety and thus complicates the presentation of these disorders.

Two models using alexithymia and somatization individually as mediators of the relations between diagnosis and quality of life were tested.

Results showed that increased symptoms of anxiety, depression, and somatization were significantly associated with fewer correct responses to angry expressions.

Substantial proportions of both the US and Kenya cohorts expressed higher levels of somatization and paranoid ideation that suggested further psychological evaluation.

This study investigated individual and incremental contributions of somatization and trait anxiety to pain report in children with pain-related functional gastrointestinal disorders.

Hierarchical regressions indicated that both trait anxiety and somatization were significantly related to maximum pain and pain frequency, with somatization explaining more variance.

Girls with IBS did not differ from peers on measures of somatic pain but had more symptoms of depression, somatization, and anxiety than controls.

Conclusion: In immediate post-tremor period, the mental health of relief crew is predominantly fine, with obsessive-compulsive symptoms and somatization symptoms as outstanding mental disorders.

Results contribute to the small body of research on sex differences in patients with PNES and suggest that somatization is a key characterization across sexes.

Based on logistic regression analysis, prior medical therapy for a psychological condition and transport to a health care facility were predictors of elevated somatization scores.