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ArticleCureus2020

Association of Somatic Symptom Severity With Sociodemographic Parameters In Patients With Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms: A Cross-Sectional Study From a Tertiary Care Center in India.

Upendra Baitha, Piyush Ranjan, Koushik Sinha Deb, Nitesh K Bauddh, Vishwajeet Singh, Gaurishanker Kaloiya, Arvind Kumar, Anamika Sahu

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Article in Cureus, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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8 authors.

Upendra BaithaMedicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, IND.
Piyush RanjanMedicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, IND.
Koushik Sinha DebPsychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, IND.
Nitesh K BauddhMedicine, Government Medical College, Kota, IND.
Vishwajeet SinghBiostatistics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, IND.
Gaurishanker KaloiyaClinical Psychology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, IND.
Arvind KumarMedicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, IND.
Anamika SahuPsychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, IND.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background There is a paucity of studies assessing the severity of somatic symptoms in medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) from Medicine outpatient department (OPD). Methodology This cross-sectional study was conducted in Medicine OPD of a tertiary care hospital in India, in which 245 MUPS-diagnosed patients out of 976 consecutive screened patients were evaluated for the severity of somatic symptoms (by administering the Patient Health

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correlatesindiamedically unexplained physical symptomssomatic symptoms

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PMID32821596
PMCPMC7430686

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