%0 Journal Article
%T Health
%A Balaswamy Reddy
%A Geetha Desai
%A Narayana Manjunatha
%A Santosh Kumar Chaturvedi
%A Srinivas Guruprasad
%J International Journal of Social Psychiatry
%@ 1741-2854
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0020764019842278
%X The positive association between adverse life events and somatoform disorders is a consistent observation. But no systematic studies have evaluated the relationship between health-related life events (HLEs) in patients with somatic symptom disorder (SSD)/somatoform disorders. To examine the nature and relationship of HLE in patients with SSD and to assess the correlates of HLE. A total of 50 adult patients with SSD and 50 matched healthy controls from a Neuropsychiatric hospital were recruited. Sociodemographic interview, scale for assessment of somatic symptoms (SASS), Patient Health Questionnaire-15 (PHQ-15) and a semi-structured interview schedule to gather information on HLE were used. Patients in the SSD group had a significantly higher number of total HLE in general (4.72 ¡À 2.63, 3.36 ¡À 1.92; p = .004), major HLE (1.48 ¡À 1.45, 0.68 ¡À 0.94; p = .006), during their lifetime in comparison to controls. Infections, trauma, non-communicable diseases and reproductive system¨Crelated diseases were the more common types of HLE in SSD group. Our findings may implicate a role of major HLE of patients and HLE of their family members in the pathophysiology of SSD
%K Life events
%K somatoform
%K health-related life events
%K somatic symptom disorder
%K somatization
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0020764019842278