Psychiatric Aspects of Medically Unexplained Symptoms

Abstract

The patients with medically unexplained symptoms for their physical symp-toms are generally prevalent in the primary care consultation. Such patient, frequently consume primary and secondary healthcare services and it is a situa-tion that disappointed medical stuff and also patients are uncomfortable for medical services. Physical symptoms commonly are regarded as products of emotional and social problems between different cultural groups and over the world. Generally, depression and anxiety and other psychiatric conditions accompany to patient group with medically unexplained symptoms. The aim of this review article is to investigate the relationship between medically unex-plained symptoms and psychiatric symptoms.

Keywords

• Medically unexplained symptoms
• anxiety depression