TY - JOUR
TI - Psychiatric symptoms associated with scleroderma
AU - Angelopoulos, NV
AU - Drosos, AA
AU - Moutsopoulos, HM
JO - Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
PY - 2001
VL - 70
TODO - 3
SP - 145-150
PB - Karger
SN - 0033-3190, 1423-0348
TODO - 10.1159/000056240
TODO - scleroderma; depression; anxiety; hostility; psychopathology
TODO - 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.
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