ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2019
Multimodal Treatment of Patients with Mental Symptom Load: A Pre-Post Comparison.
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The Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Hospital in Bad Kötzting, Germany, is treating chronically ill patients, covering a broad range of indications. The aim of this study was to prove the efficacy of a multimodal intervention combining mainstream medicine with TCM treatments on the severity of psychopathological symptoms. Out of 966 patients with chronic psychosomatic disease treated 2017 at the TCM Hospital, we selected 759 patients according to specific criteria and analyzed the outcomes after multimodal intervention. The patients completed a validated questionnaire (International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD) Symptom-Rating-(ISR)) at admission, discharge, and follow-up. The most frequent ICD-10 diagnoses were "diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue" (28.5%), "mental and behavioral disorders" (23.7%), and "diseases of the nervous system" (13.8%). Regarding ISR symptom load, "depressive syndrome" and "anxiety syndrome" were the leading burdens showing remissions of about 40%-60% with moderate (0.588) to strong (1.115) effect sizes (Cohen's
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