Citation

Escobar JI, Canino G, Rubio-Stipec M, Bravo M. Am. J. Psychiatry 1992; 149(7): 965-967.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, American Psychiatric Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1609880

Abstract

The authors prospectively examined the prevalence of somatization symptoms among community respondents after a natural disaster in Puerto Rico. Exposure to the disaster was related to a higher prevalence of medically unexplained physical symptoms, particularly gastrointestinal ones (abdominal pain, vomiting, nausea, excessive gas) and pseudoneurological ones (amnesia, paralysis, fainting, unusual spells/double vision).

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