Am J Psychiatry 1988; 145:1023-1024
Copyright © 1988 by American Psychiatric Association
DSM-III axis I diagnoses of Indian psychiatric patients with somatic symptoms
S Saxena, MK Nepal and D Mohan
Department of Psychiatry, All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
When DSM-III criteria were applied to 123 Indian psychiatric outpatients
with predominantly somatic symptoms, the most common axis I diagnoses were
dysthymic disorder (36.6%) and generalized anxiety disorder (11.4%).
Thirty-nine percent of the patients fitted only into atypical diagnostic
categories.
