Psychosomatic research has advanced over the past decades in dealing with complex
biopsychosocial phenomena and may provide new effective modalities of patient care …

BACKGROUND: Depression, anxiety and somatization are the most common mental
disorders in primary care as well as medical specialty populations; each is present in at least …

Background Effective treatment requires regular follow-up and monitoring of symptoms. We
investigated sensitivity to change and minimal clinically important difference of the …

Objective We examine the reliability and validity of the Patient Health Questionnaire Anxiety
and Depression Scale (PHQ-ADS)—which combines the nine-item Patient Health …

Background The literature contains variable figures on the prevalence of somatoform
disorders and medically unexplained symptoms in primary care. Methods The pertinent …

Background Pre-hospitalisation, hospitalisation and post-hospitalisation factors may
significantly affect depression, anxiety and post-traumatic growth (PTG) among COVID-19 …

Correct and early diagnosis of functional dizziness, as primary cause or secondary disorder
after a structural vestibular syndrome, is very important to prevent further chronification and …

Background Prolonged stress may lead to mental illness, but the prevalence of stress in a
working age population seeking primary health care for whatever reason, is unknown. This …

To perform a systematic review of the utility of the Beck Depression Inventory for detecting
depression in medical settings, this article focuses on the revised version of the scale (Beck …

Background The PHQ-15 is widely used as an open access screening instrument for
somatization syndromes in different health care settings, thus far, normative data from the …