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KMID : 0384320010220081204
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Korean Journal of Family Medicine
2001 Volume.22 No. 8 p.1204 ~ p.1213
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Alexithymia and non - ulcer dyspepsia
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Ko Su-Min
Bun Jae-Jun
Lee Kyeong-Hyeon
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Abstract
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Background: The pathophysiology of non-ulcer dyspepsia remains unknown. But Several related factors have been investigated and psychologic factor is one of the possible mechanism. Alexithymia was introduced to explain the psychopathology
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psychosomatic disorder. Until now alexithymia has been variously shown to be associated with many psychosomatic disorder, psychiatric disorder, even medical patients. This study is designed to investigate whether non-ulcer dyspepsia has more
relationship with alexithymia than other illness. Methods: To compare alexithymia tendency between non-ulcer dyspepsia and general medical patients, we collected sample from January to September 1999. Each group of 72 patients were tested
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Toronto Alexithymia Scale. Results: A rate of 37.5% of alexithymia was found in the non-ulcer dyspepsia group compared with significant lower rate of 19.4% in the general medical patients group. Conclusion: Non-ulcer dyspepsia
patients had
more alexithymia compare to general medical patients. This finding shows the alexithymia could be part of the pathophysiology of non-ulcer dyspepsia.
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