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Somatic symptom and related disorders in children and adolescents: evaluation of a naturalistic inpatient multidisciplinary treatment
- Source :
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2018), Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health 12, 34 (2018). doi:10.1186/s13034-018-0239-y
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- BioMed Central, 2018.
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Abstract
- Background This naturalistic study assesses the effectiveness of inpatient multidisciplinary treatment of children and adolescents with somatic symptom disorders (SSD) and investigates the role of pain coping strategies and psychiatric comorbidity (anxiety, depression). Methods Sixty children and adolescents (mean age 14.4 years) with SSD who underwent inpatient multidisciplinary treatment were assessed regarding their school attendance, levels of discomfort, coping strategies and psychiatric comorbidity (depression, anxiety) at pretreatment, discharge and 6 months following treatment. Results At discharge, the children and adolescents reported improvements in their level of discomfort, psychiatric comorbidities (anxiety, depression) and pain coping strategies, with medium to large effect sizes. Six months following treatment, the improvements remained stable, including significantly higher school attendance rates (d = 1.6; p
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
lcsh:RC435-571
Somatic symptom disorder
Comorbidity
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Naturalistic observation
Multidisciplinary approach
lcsh:Psychiatry
Forensic psychiatry
medicine
Child and adolescent psychiatry
030212 general & internal medicine
Psychiatry
Depression (differential diagnoses)
business.industry
School attendance
lcsh:RJ1-570
Correction
lcsh:Pediatrics
Multidisciplinary treatment
medicine.disease
Pain coping strategies
humanities
Psychiatry and Mental health
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Anxiety
medicine.symptom
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17532000
- Volume :
- 12
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7d870387efcf53c37b53813b170d891d