@article{3080224,
    title = "Psychiatric symptoms associated with scleroderma",
    author = "Angelopoulos, NV and Drosos, AA and Moutsopoulos, HM",
    journal = "Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics",
    year = "2001",
    volume = "70",
    number = "3",
    pages = "145-150",
    publisher = "Karger",
    issn = "0033-3190, 1423-0348",
    doi = "10.1159/000056240",
    keywords = "scleroderma; depression; anxiety; hostility; psychopathology",
    abstract = "Background: The prevalence of psychiatric symptoms and hostility factors
in patients with scleroderma, although a matter of clinical interest, it
is rather poorly studied. Methods: Thirty female patients with
scleroderma were investigated. Thirty-three healthy women were used as a
comparison group. The applied psychometric instruments were the
Hostility and Direction of Hostility Questionnaire (HDHQ), the Delusions
Symptoms States Inventory/states of Anxiety and Depression (DSSI/sAD)
and the Symptom Check List-SOR (SCL-90R). Results: The scleroderma
patients reported significantly increased depression and anxiety,
somatization, interpersonal sensitivity and obsessive-compulsiveness.
Paranoid ideation and psychotic symptoms scores were also increased. On
hostility, they presented significantly higher scores predominantly on
guilt. Conclusions: Psychiatric symptomatology in the form of anxiety,
depression, obsessive-compulsiveness, somatization and feeldings of
guilt were reported by the majority of the patients with scleroderma.
Copyright (C) 2001 S. Karger AG, Basel."
}