ANALYSIS OF GASTROINTESTINAL SOMATIZATION IN PAKISTANI LOCAL POPULATION WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS

Introduction: Functional medical disorders, by definition, lack objective physical, metabolic, or neurological explanations for their symptom presentations. Diagnosis of these disorders, like diagnosis of psychiatric disorders, is based entirely on subjective complaints. Aims and objectives: The basic aim of the study is to analyze the gastrointestinal somatization in Pakistani local population with depressive disorder. Material and methods: This study was conducted at Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Teaching hospital Gujrat From April 2018 till October 2018.The patients were divided into two groups, Group I consisted of 50 patients suffering from anxiety and Group II consisted of 50 patients suffering from depression. Patients in both groups were collected by convenience sampling. Both indoor and outdoor patients were included. Results: The study population comprised 50 patients of anxiety disorder and 50 patients of mild to moderate depressive episode each. Ages of these patients ranged from 20 to 60 years. The average age for anxiety groups was 29.78±5.25 years. In depression group the mean age was 31.16±5.5 years. Males were more in number as compared to females (28:22) in Anxiety group whereas females were more in Depression group (23:27). Conclusion: It is concluded that the patterns of somatic symptoms are present in both the groups of anxiety and depression