TY - JOUR T1 - Psychological Symptoms in Gastrointestinal Outpatients TT - علایم روان‌شناختی در بیماران گوارشی سرپایی JF - ijpcp JO - ijpcp VL - 12 IS - 2 UR - http://ijpcp.iums.ac.ir/article-1-28-en.html Y1 - 2006 SP - 169 EP - 172 KW - Key words: psychological symptoms KW - gastrointestinal diseases KW - depression KW - somatization N2 - Short Scientific Article AbstractObjectives: This study was designed to determine the prevalence of psychological symptoms in gastrointestinal outpatients.Method: In this research 200 outpatients of a private internal clinic and Sina Gastroenterology Clinic in the city of Tabriz were selected by convenience sampling, and assessed through SCL-90-R. Data were analyzed using c2 test. Results: 51.5% of the subjects had psychological symptoms among which depression and somatization were the most prevalent. Pre-valence of symptoms was four times more in females than in males. Women and unemployed subjects scored higher in most scales of the test than men, with significant difference in somatization and anxiety scales (p M3 ER -