Journal of Psychosomatic Research
Volume 69, Issue 1 , Pages 1-8, July 2010

Whether medically unexplained or not, three or more concurrent somatic symptoms predict psychopathology and service use in community populations

  • Javier I. Escobar

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
    • Department of Family Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Benjamin Cook

      Affiliations

    • Center for Multicultural Health Research, Cambridge Health Alliance-Harvard Medical School, Somerville, MA, USA
    • ,
  • Chi-Nan Chen

      Affiliations

    • Center for Multicultural Health Research, Cambridge Health Alliance-Harvard Medical School, Somerville, MA, USA
    • ,
  • Michael A. Gara

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
    • Department of Family Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
    • UMDNJ-University Behavioral Health Care (UBHC) Piscataway, NJ, USA
    • ,
  • Margarita Alegría

      Affiliations

    • Center for Multicultural Health Research, Cambridge Health Alliance-Harvard Medical School, Somerville, MA, USA
    • ,
  • Alejandro Interian

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
    • Department of Family Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
    • ,
  • Esperanza Diaz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven CT, USA

Received 6 May 2009; received in revised form 20 December 2009; accepted 5 January 2010. published online 17 February 2010.

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PII: S0022-3999(10)00006-1

doi:10.1016/j.jpsychores.2010.01.001

Journal of Psychosomatic Research
Volume 69, Issue 1 , Pages 1-8, July 2010

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