Network analysis of body-related complaints in patients with neurotic or personality disorders referred to psychotherapy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Psychopathology theory and clinical practice require the most complex knowledge about patients' complaints. In patients seeking for psychotherapy, body-related symptoms often complicate treatment.

Aim

This study aimed at examining connections between body-related symptoms, and identification of symptoms which may be responsible for emergency and sustaining of anxiety, somatoform and personality disorders with the use of network analysis.

Methods

In our retrospective research we used data from a sample of 4616 patients of the Department of Psychotherapy, University Hospital in Cracow, diagnosed with anxiety, somatoform or personality disorders. We constructed the Triangulated Maximally Filtered Graph (TMFG) networks of 44 somatoform symptoms endorsed in the

SUBMITTER: Klasa K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10018473 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature