Treatment of patients with somatized mental disorder: effects of reattribution training on outcomes under the direct control of the family doctor.

Full Abstract

Reattribution training is an 8-hour, skills-based training program delivered to family doctors so that they may better manage patients with somatized mental disorder. Separate consecutive cohorts of 103 and 112 patients with somatized mental disorder, respectively, visited eight family doctors before and after these physicians had undergone reattribution training. Reattribution training was associated with more frequent endorsement by patients after 1 month that they received the help they wanted and fewer beliefs by patients after 3 months that their symptoms had only a physical cause. Reattribution training did not change the incidence of investigations initiated by the family doctor, prescriptions for psychotropic or nonpsychotropic drugs, or referrals over 3 months.

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Author information

Author/s: Morriss, Richard K (RK); Gask, Linda (L);

Affiliation: University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. r.k.morris(-atsign-)liverpool.ac.uk

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Psychosomatics (Psychosomatics), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: -2002 Sep-Oct; vol 43 (issue 5) : pp 394-9

Dates: Created 2002/09/25; Completed 2002/10/28; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 12297608, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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Female
Humans
Male

Male
Somatoform Disorders - therapy
Teaching - methods

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