Disclosure does not improve somatisation in primary care

Encouraging patients to disclose emotionally important events had no effect on use of medical services, subjective health, or sick leave in patients with somatisation in primary care. After two years, the 81 patients who had two to three disclosure sessions showed no differences from patients allocated to usual care (Schilte et al, p 86). Despite the lack of measurable benefit, patients in the intervention group thought that their health had improved because of the treatment.


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Randomised controlled trial of disclosure of emotionally important events in somatisation in primary care
Albert F Schilte, Piet J M Portegijs, Annette H Blankenstein, Henriëtte E van der Horst, Monique B F Latour, Jacques Th M van Eijk, and J André Knottnerus
BMJ 2001 323: 86. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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