Am J Psychiatry 1985; 142:1146-1149
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A screening test for somatization disorder (hysteria)
E Othmer and C DeSouza
For the diagnosis of somatization disorder, DSM-III requires the assessment
of 37 specific symptoms, a time-consuming and cumbersome task. The authors
describe a procedure by which the clinician can assess the presence of
somatization disorder by screening for only seven symptoms, three of which
must be present for a preliminary diagnosis of somatization disorder. The
test was developed on female psychiatric outpatients (N = 85) who had
multiple unexplained physical complaints beginning before the age of 30
years; it was validated on an independent sample (N = 47). The accuracy of
this screening procedure is 80%-90%.
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