Background Somatic syndrome is one of the remarkably prevalent issues in primary health
care and subspecialty settings. We aimed to elucidate multidimensional associations …

Background: Persistent somatic symptoms are associated with psychological distress,
impaired function, and medical help-seeking behavior. The Patient Health Questionnaire …

Background Predicting the onset and course of mood and anxiety disorders is of clinical
importance but remains difficult. We compared the predictive performances of traditional …

Background Somatic symptoms are highly prevalent in primary care although insufficiently
understood. The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-15) is a valuable screening test but it …

Distressing somatic symptoms are ubiquitous both in mental disorders and medical
diseases. From a psychometric perspective, the structure of somatic symptom distress is …

Objective Multiple bodily symptoms predict poor health status, high healthcare use, and
onset of functional somatic syndromes. This study aimed to identify the predictors of somatic …

BackgroundEtiological research of depression and anxiety disorders has been hampered by
diagnostic heterogeneity. In order to address this, researchers have tried to identify more …

Background and purpose–Somatic symptoms without a clear-cut organic or biomedical
background, also called “medically unexplained” or “somatoform” symptoms, are frequent in …

Introduction Although neuroscience has made tremendous progress towards understanding
the basic neural circuitry underlying important processes such as attention, memory and …

Objective. The current study is aimed at investigating the association between stressful life
events and psychological problems in a large sample of Iranian adults. Method. In a cross …