TABLE 2.
Distribution of All Visit Diagnoses by Medical Record-Based Somatizing Status
| Percent of Patients with any of the somatization potential diagnoses | Mean (SD) percent of somatization potential diagnoses among all diagnoses | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Body Systema | All patients (N=1364) |
Somatizing Patients (N=319) |
NonSomatizing patients (N=1045) |
Chi-square test p-valueb | Patients with any diagnosis a system | Somatizing Patients with any diagnosis in a system | NonSomatizing patients with any diagnosis in a system | t-test p-valuec | |||
| N (%) | n (%) | n (%) | Mean | (SD) | Mean | (SD) | Mean | (SD) | |||
| Nervous | 346 (25.4) | 89 (27.9) | 257 (24.6) | 0.24 | 20.61 | (15.05) | 20.90 | (14.09) | 20.51 | (15.39) | 0.83 |
| GI | 289 (21.2) | 82 (25.7) | 207 (19.8) | 0.02 | 19.02 | (13.64) | 18.91 | (16.20) | 19.07 | (12.53) | 0.94 |
| Musculoskeletal | 697 (51.1) | 195 (61.1) | 502 (48.0) | <.001 | 28.46 | (19.43) | 32.17 | (20.11) | 27.03 | (18.99) | <.002 |
| Ill-defined | 632 (46.3) | 199 (62.4) | 433 (41.4) | <.001 | 22.66 | (13.91) | 25.22 | (16.19) | 21.49 | (12.57) | <.004 |
a
See Appendix A for definitions of body systems
b
Test of the equality in proportions of somatizing and non-somatizing patients with any diagnosis in a body system
c
Test of equality of means between somatizing and non-somatizing patients who had at least one diagnosis in a body system