dc.contributor.author | Barsky, Arthur | |
dc.contributor.author | Fama, Jeanne M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Bailey, E. Duff | |
dc.contributor.author | Ahern, David K. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-29T10:32:56Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1998 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Barsky, Arthur J., Jeanne M. Fama, E. Duff Bailey, and David K. Ahern. 1998. “A Prospective 4- to 5-Year Study of DSM-III-R Hypochondriasis.” Archives of General Psychiatry 55 (8): 737. https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.55.8.737. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0003-990X | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1538-3636 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:38846171 | * |
dc.description.abstract | Background: Although hypochondriasis is generally thought to be a chronic and stable condition with a relatively low remission rate, this disorder remains understudied.Methods: This is a 4- to 5-year prospective case-control study of DSM-III-R hypochondriasis. Medical outpatients meeting DSM diagnostic criteria for hypochondriasis completed an extensive research battery assessing hypochondriacal symptoms, medical and psychiatric co morbidity, functional status and role impairment, and medical care. A comparison group of nonhypochondriacal patients from the same setting underwent the same battery. Four to 5 years later, both cohorts were, re interviewed.Results: One hundred twenty hypochondriacal and 133 nonhypochondriacal comparison patients were originally studied. Follow-up was obtained on 73.5% (n = :186) of all patients. At follow-up, the hypochondriacal sample was significantly (P<.001) less hypochondriacal and had less somatization (P<.001) and disability than at inception, but 63.5% (n=54) still met DSM-III-R diagnostic criterial. When compared with the comparison group using repeated measures multivariate analysis of variance, these changes remained statistically significant (P<.0001). Changes in medical and psychiatric comorbidity did not differ between the 2 groups. When hypochondriacal patients who did and did not meet diagnostic criteria at follow-up were compared; the latter had significantly less disease conviction (P<.05) and somatization (P<.01) at inception, and their incidence of major medical illness during the follow-up period was significantly (P<.05) greater.Conclusions: Hypochondriacal patients show a considerable decline in symptoms and improvement in role functioning over 4 to 5 years but two thirds of them still meet diagnostic criteria. Hypochondriasis, therefore, carries a very substantial, long-term burden of morbidity, functional impairment, and personal distress. | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dash.license | META_ONLY | |
dc.title | A Prospective 4- to 5-year Study of Dsm-iii-r Hypochondriasis | |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
dc.description.version | Version of Record | |
dc.relation.journal | Archives of General Psychiatry | |
dash.depositing.author | Barsky, Arthur | |
dc.date.available | 2019-03-29T10:32:56Z | |
dash.workflow.comments | 1Science Serial ID 8749 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1001/archpsyc.55.8.737 | |
dash.source.volume | 55;8 | |
dash.source.page | 737 | |
dash.contributor.affiliated | Barsky, Arthur | |