Health care utilization in outpatients with somatoform disorders: Descriptives, interdiagnostic differences, and potential mediating factors

Somatoform disorders are characterized by increased health care utilization producing high health costs. The aim of this study was to assess facets of and interdiagnostic differences in health care use in somatoform disorders and to examine health anxiety, symptom-related disability, depression, and phobic anxiety as potential mediating factors of the relationship between somatization and health care use.

Source: General Hospital Psychiatry - October 14, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Frauke Dorothee Weiss, Winfried Rief, Maria Kleinst äuber Source Type: research