Patients with somatoform anomalies suffer from considerable emotional distress, and clinicians are faced with a challenging challenge. Women are more likely than men to develop somatization disorder. They're reported to be more prevalent in rural areas and among those with lower levels of education.
Materials and Procedures: The out-patient and in-patient services of the Department of Psychiatry, which is affiliated with the AVBRH, a tertiary care hospital in Vidarbha, were used to recruit 270 patients with any of the subtypes of somatoform disorders. From October 2010 to July 2012, a cross-sectional study was conducted.
The study indicated that the 60 to 80 year old age group (48.88 percent) had the most patients, followed by the 40 to 60 year old age group (27.77 percent), with a little female preponderance (56.67 percent). Females were more likely than males to be in a somatoform state for a longer duration of time (4.48 years vs. 3.97 years). The majority of patients with somatization disorder in our study were married (88.9%), followed by widow/widower (7.4%), single (4.1%), and separated (4.1%). (1.9 percent ). In addition, the majority of patients in our study were illiterate (20.0%), followed by primary school educated (10.0%), secondary school educated (40%) and graduates (30%).
Conclusion: Somatoform disorders are more common in women in their forties and fifties, and they last significantly longer.
Author (S) Details
Ratika Sharma
Department of Psychiatry, SHKM, GMC, Mewat, India.
Prakriti Vohra
Department of Microbiology, SHKM, GMC, Mewat, India.
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