Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology

fa علایم روان‌شناختی در بیماران گوارشی سرپایی Psychological Symptoms in Gastrointestinal Outpatients روانپزشکی و روانشناسی Psychiatry and Psychology پژوهشي اصيل Original Research Short Scientific Article <p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: kashida DIRECTION: ltr TEXT-INDENT: 0cm LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt MARGIN-RIGHT: 6.5pt unicode-bidi: embed TEXT-ALIGN: justify TEXT-KASHIDA: 0% mso-line-height-rule: exactly">Abstract<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: kashida DIRECTION: ltr TEXT-INDENT: 0cm LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt MARGIN-RIGHT: 6.5pt unicode-bidi: embed TEXT-ALIGN: justify TEXT-KASHIDA: 0% mso-line-height-rule: exactly">Objectives: This study was designed to determine the prevalence of psychological symptoms in gastrointestinal outpatients.<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: kashida DIRECTION: ltr TEXT-INDENT: 0cm LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt MARGIN-RIGHT: 6.5pt unicode-bidi: embed TEXT-ALIGN: justify TEXT-KASHIDA: 0% mso-line-height-rule: exactly">Method: In this research 200 outpatients of a private internal clinic and Sina Gastroenterology Clinic in the city of <city><place>Tabriz</place></city> were selected by convenience sampling, and assessed through SCL-90-R. Data were analyzed using <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt FONT-FAMILY: Symbol mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman' mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman' mso-bidi-font-family: 'B Lotus' mso-char-type: symbol mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol">c2 test. <p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: kashida DIRECTION: ltr TEXT-INDENT: 0cm LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt MARGIN-RIGHT: 6.5pt unicode-bidi: embed TEXT-ALIGN: justify TEXT-KASHIDA: 0% mso-line-height-rule: exactly">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<0.05). No significant relationship was found between psy-chological symptoms and any gastrointestinal disease. <p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: kashida DIRECTION: ltr TEXT-INDENT: 0cm LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt MARGIN-RIGHT: 6.5pt unicode-bidi: embed TEXT-ALIGN: justify TEXT-KASHIDA: 0% mso-line-height-rule: exactly">Conclusion: Psychological symptoms are prevalent among gastro-intestinal patients, especially females.<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: kashida DIRECTION: ltr TEXT-INDENT: 0cm LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt MARGIN-RIGHT: 6.5pt unicode-bidi: embed TEXT-ALIGN: justify TEXT-KASHIDA: 0% mso-line-height-rule: exactly"> کلیدواژه: علایم روان‌شناختی، بیماری گوارشی، افسردگی، جسمانی‌سازی Key words: psychological symptoms, gastrointestinal diseases, depression, somatization 169 172 http://ijpcp.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-28&slc_lang=fa&sid=1 Maryam Hadipour مریم هادی‌پور E-mail: hadipourmd@yahoo.com 18003194753284600130 18003194753284600130 Yes Nosratollah Pourafkary نصرت‌اله پورافکاری 18003194753284600131 18003194753284600131 No Firouz Saramy فیروز صارمی 18003194753284600132 18003194753284600132 No