Efficacy of Adjunctive Single Session Counseling for Medically Unexplained Symptoms: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Context: Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are often poorly responsive to standard treatments.

Aim: The aim of the study is to assess short-term efficacy of adjunctive single session cognitive behavior therapy (CBT)-based counseling for patients with MUS.

Setting And Design: Randomized controlled trial at a psychosomatic clinic of a tertiary care hospital.

Personality traits such as neuroticism and disability predict psychological distress in medically unexplained symptoms: A three-year experience from a single centre.

Background: People with medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) may have psychological co-morbidities.

Aims: Our objectives were to assess the rates and identify correlates of psychological distress in MUS.

Methods: A total of 171 subjects with MUS seeking treatment at a tertiary care facility were assessed over a 3-year period.

A qualitative analysis of explanatory models in medically unexplained physical symptoms presenting to a tertiary health care psychiatric facility in South India.

Background: Knowledge about subjective perceptions and explanatory models has the potential to inform clinical evaluation and lead to development of patient-friendly treatment models in medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS).

Aim: To collect qualitative data about explanatory models in MUPS.

Methods: A cross-sectional observational study was done among patients with MUPS presenting over a 2-year period to a specialty psychosomatic clinic.