Somatic symptom and related disorders in children and adolescents: evaluation of a naturalistic inpatient multidisciplinary treatment

Table 1 Demographic and clinical data

	Mean [SD]
Sample size (n)	60
Female (%)	56.7
Age	14.43 [2.0]
Duration of treatment (days)	48.15 [19.7]
Diagnostic distribution	N [%]
A primary diagnosis
Somatoform disorder (F45.x)	47 [78.3]
Dissociative (conversion) disorder (F44.x)	4 [6.7]
Other pediatric diagnosis^a	9 [15]
B comorbidities
Depressive episode (F32.x)	27 [45]
Phobic/other anxiety disorder (F40.x/F41.x)	24 [40]
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (F90.x)	22 [36.7]
Other F^b—diagnoses	23 [38.3]

^a Rheumatic diseases (n = 2), migraine (n = 1), obesity (n = 5), chronic inflammatory bowel syndrome (n = 1)
^b Obsessive–compulsive disorder (F42.x, n = 2), reaction to severe stress and adjustment disorder (F43.x, n = 6), specific developmental disorders of scholastic skills (F81.x, n = 4), mixed disorders of conduct and emotions (F92.x, n = 1), emotional disorders with onsets specific to childhood (F93.x, n = 1), tic disorders (F95.x, n = 1), somatoform disorder (F45.x, n = 1)

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