Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS)
Psychosomatic therapy for patients frequently attending primary care with medically unexplained symptoms, the CORPUS trial: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
... Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) have been defined as symptoms of which the origins remain unclear after adequate history taking, physical exam- ination and careful consideration of the ...
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Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS): What Do Current Trainee Psychologists, Neurologists and Psychiatrists Believe?
... Objectives: Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are common in all medical settings. These conditions remain con- troversial, aetiology remains poorly understood and treatments have been slow to ...
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Prevalence of medically unexplained symptoms in adults who are high users of health care services: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
... Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) is a general term which refers to physical symptoms that cannot be fully explained by observable pathology or known/recognised pathological ...Such ...
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Epistemological and methodological paradoxes: secondary care specialists and their challenges working with adolescents with medically unexplained symptoms
... Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are those for which a treating physician or other healthcare providers have found no medical cause, or whose cause remains contested below ...[1]. Symptoms ...
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Early response in cognitive behavior therapy for syndromes of medically unexplained symptoms
... Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are somatic symptoms that cannot or have not been sufficiently ex- plained by organic causes after a thorough physical examination ...anxiety ...
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The relationships between negative life events, PTSD symptoms and medically unexplained symptoms
... and medically unexplained symptoms scales show that the distribution is not normal and that there are significant outliers for the medically unexplained symptoms scale at the ...
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New models of care: a liaison psychiatry service for medically unexplained symptoms and frequent attenders in primary care
... What works in a research study does not easily translate into routine clinical practice in the NHS. In this study, academics and GP commissioners worked with specialist mental health providers to consider the evidence ...
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General practitioners' views on reattribution for patients with medically unexplained symptoms: a questionnaire and qualitative study
... with medically unexplained symptoms, though those who had received reattribution training were more optimistic about their ability to help ...
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Understanding the explanatory model of the patient on their medically unexplained symptoms and its implication on treatment development research: a Sri Lanka Study
... To our knowledge there are no studies carried out in the UK using SEMI on patients exclusively with medically unexplained symptoms. However, the original validation study among patients with common ...
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Psychosoma in crisis: an autoethnographic study of medically unexplained symptoms and their diverse contexts
... of medically unexplained symptoms, and particularly the stigma often associated with these, it is also important for the person to be assisted in managing the impact of the condition on their ...
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Psychosoma in crisis: an autoethnographic study of medically unexplained symptoms and their diverse contexts
... physical symptoms to be understood more directly - a habit cultivated during the formal research period which Roth (2012) describes as ‘perceptual ...of medically unexplained symptoms to ...
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General practitioners' responses to the initial presentation of medically unexplained symptoms: a quantitative analysis
... On Symptoms (PIOS) After the consultation the GPs had to score on a 5-point scale whether they considered the cause of the presented physical symptom to be: 1) Only somatic 2) More somatic than psychological 3) As ...
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At the borders of medical reasoning: aetiological and ontological challenges of medically unexplained symptoms
... Understanding causal interaction is not only about taking into account all the factors involved and how they compose. It is also a question of magnitude or degree. On dispositionalism causes and effects come in degrees. ...
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At the border of medical reasoning - aetiological and ontological challenges of medically unexplained symptoms
... foundation to back up such a unity is absent. On a dispositionalist ontology it should not be expected that there is some average, normal or standard way to express a disease, simply because this average, norm or ...
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Assessing medically unexplained symptoms: evaluation of a shortened version of the SOMS for use in primary care
... that symptoms did not interfere at all with daily routines, this way loosing the severity threshold and becoming "negatives" when facing the ...(unexplained) symptoms. At FCSE those ...
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The interpretation of low mood and worry by high users of secondary care with medically unexplained symptoms
... ‘medically explained’ condition. The study was presented to patients as relating to referrals and the illnesses that lead to them, including broader aspects of health, rather than specifically either to MUS or ...
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What do guidelines and systematic reviews tell us about the management of medically unexplained symptoms in primary care?
... example unexplained physical symptoms, functional symptoms, or somatoform symptoms, we have chosen to use MUS in this article because this is the most frequently used ...
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“You kind of want to fix it don’t you?” Exploring general practice trainees’ experiences of managing patients with medically unexplained symptoms
... Other studies have used in-depth interviews to ex- plore consultations with patients with MUS in more detail [9, 10]. These studies described GPs’ frustration as they were unable to meet patient expectations and their ...
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Novel primary care treatment package for patients with medically unexplained symptoms: a cohort intervention study
... PHQ-15 data on somatic symptoms was completed for all participants at baseline (mean total score 17.8, SD 5.7, indicating significant severity) and by 44 patients at follow-up. Baseline scores indicated high ...
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A primary care symptoms clinic for patients with medically unexplained symptoms: pilot randomised trial
... the Symptoms Clinic were offered four appointments; the first was of 1 h duration and the subsequent three lasted 20 ...modify symptoms and their ...to symptoms and other events, and diagnostic ...
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