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Table 1 Baseline measures. Data are weighted for the sampling scheme.

From: Follow-up study on health care use of patients with somatoform, anxiety and depressive disorders in primary care

 

None of the psychiatric disorders

Anxiety or depressive disorder

Somatoform disorders, undifferentiated *

Somatoform disorder, others**

Total

Patient characteristics (questionnaire)

(n = 274)

(n = 51)

(n = 94)

(n = 12)

(n = 400)

Gender (men)

28%

28%

20%

17%

28%

Age:

     

   - 65 and over

23%

4%

4%

0%

17%

   - mean (se)

52 (0.8)

43 (1.3)

45 (1.0)

44 (2.8)

49 (0.6)

Physical symptoms (PSC total score)

4 (0.3)

11 (1.1)

10 (0.7)

15 (3.0)

6 (0.3)

Distress symptoms (HADS total score)

8 (0.3)

21 (1.1)

15 (0.8)

20 (2.3)

11 (0.4)

Health status

     

Somatic morbidity:

     

- CIRS somatic morbidity score

6.8 (0.2)

7.5 (0.5)

7.0 (0.4)

6.8 (0.9)

6.9 (0.2)

- Number of unique somatic prescriptions (FP or other)

5.0 (0.3)

6.3 (0.7)

6.3 (0.5)

5.7 (0.9)

5.4 (0.2)

Psychiatric morbidity:

     

- CIRS psychiatric severity score

0.4 (0.0)

1.5 (0.1)

1.0 (0.1)

1.7 (0.2)

0.6 (0.0)

Use of anxiolytics (self report at time of interview)

3%

14%

15%

8%

6%

Use of antidepressants (self report at time of interview)

5%

37%

25%

42%

12%

  1. * Undifferentiated somatoform disorders included chronic pain disorders.
  2. ** Other somatoform disorders: hypochondriasis, somatization disorder and conversion disorder.