Headaches as somatoform disorders in children and adolescents
Somatoform disorders are often the main cause for seeking professional advice and performing a number of specialist checks. The aim of the study was to determine the frequency of somatoform disorders in the form of headaches in children and adolescents neurologically diagnosed and the risk factors t...
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| author | Anna Kostorz Ilona Kopyta Barbara Szwed-Białożyt Ewa Widera-Emich Beata Kazek |
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| description | Somatoform disorders are often the main cause for seeking professional advice and performing a number of specialist checks. The aim of the study was to determine the frequency of somatoform disorders in the form of headaches in children and adolescents neurologically diagnosed and the risk factors thereof. Analysis of the biological and situational risk factors were established. Somatoform disorders were diagnosed in 27 out of 276 children with headaches. We concluded that in the differential diagnosis of headaches, somatoform headaches should not be omitted as every 10th patient in the developmental age diagnosed on the neurological ward because of headache shows signs of somatoform heada - ches. In diagnostically difficult cases it is recommended that analysis of biological and situational risk factors be performed with special attention paid to chronic disease of the patient and/or in his immediate family, the patient’s psychological disorders and dysfunctional or low social status families. The creation of separate criteria for somatoform disorders of the developmental age should be considered. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-cadca768d7044269b076cd1e60f769e62025-08-20T03:24:04ZengWileyMental Illness2036-74572036-74652012-01-0141e9e910.4081/mi.2012.e9Headaches as somatoform disorders in children and adolescentsAnna KostorzIlona KopytaBarbara Szwed-BiałożytEwa Widera-EmichBeata KazekSomatoform disorders are often the main cause for seeking professional advice and performing a number of specialist checks. The aim of the study was to determine the frequency of somatoform disorders in the form of headaches in children and adolescents neurologically diagnosed and the risk factors thereof. Analysis of the biological and situational risk factors were established. Somatoform disorders were diagnosed in 27 out of 276 children with headaches. We concluded that in the differential diagnosis of headaches, somatoform headaches should not be omitted as every 10th patient in the developmental age diagnosed on the neurological ward because of headache shows signs of somatoform heada - ches. In diagnostically difficult cases it is recommended that analysis of biological and situational risk factors be performed with special attention paid to chronic disease of the patient and/or in his immediate family, the patient’s psychological disorders and dysfunctional or low social status families. The creation of separate criteria for somatoform disorders of the developmental age should be considered.http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/mi/article/view/3622somatoform disorders, tension type headaches, children, adolescents |
| spellingShingle | Anna Kostorz Ilona Kopyta Barbara Szwed-Białożyt Ewa Widera-Emich Beata Kazek Headaches as somatoform disorders in children and adolescents Mental Illness somatoform disorders, tension type headaches, children, adolescents |
| title | Headaches as somatoform disorders in children and adolescents |
| title_full | Headaches as somatoform disorders in children and adolescents |
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| title_short | Headaches as somatoform disorders in children and adolescents |
| title_sort | headaches as somatoform disorders in children and adolescents |
| topic | somatoform disorders, tension type headaches, children, adolescents |
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