Identification of barriers and difficulties involved in the process of diagnosing somatic symptom disorders in primary care - a representative nationwide survey among family practitioners
- Conditions
- DSM-5 Somatic Symptom DisorderDSM-IV Somatoform Disorder
- Registration Number
- DRKS00012942
- Lead Sponsor
- Institut und Poliklinik für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 1829
Inclusion Criteria
General practitioners with occupational title of General medicine, inner medicine, child- and adolescent medicine, or Praktischer Arzt. Occupation in a practice, a Union of practices, or a Medizinisches Versorgungszentrum.
Exclusion Criteria
none
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Diagnosis and treatment of unclear and burdensome somatic symptoms in general practice (questionnaire items)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Evaluation of diagnostic categories of the somatic symptom disorder (DSM-5)(questionnaire items)