Psychosomatic Study of Subjective Complaints in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus

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  • Kurokawa Nobuo
    Dept. of Psychosomatic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu Univ.:Dept. of Psychosomatic Medicine, Hygiene Center Daiichi Hospital.
  • Sobajima Junko
    Dept. of Psychosomatic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu Univ.:Dept. of Psychosomatic Medicine, Hygiene Center Daiichi Hospital.
  • Hirota Yoshihiko
    Dept. of Psychosomatic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu Univ.:Dept. of Psychosomatic Medicine, Hygiene Center Daiichi Hospital.
  • Hayashi Yoshio
    Dept. of Psychosomatic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu Univ.:Dept. of Psychosomatic Medicine, Hygiene Center Daiichi Hospital.
  • Kumai Sanji
    Dept. of Psychosomatic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu Univ.
  • Takahashi Kayoko
    Dept. of Psychosomatic Medicine, Hygiene Center Daiichi Hospital.
  • Kaga Michiko
    Dept. of Psychosomatic Medicine, Hygiene Center Daiichi Hospital.
  • Oshima Kazuomi
    Dept. of Psychosomatic Medicine, Hygiene Center Daiichi Hospital.
  • Takaki Reiko
    Dept. of Psychosomatic Medicine, Hygiene Center Daiichi Hospital.

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  • 糖尿病の自覚症状についての心身医学的研究 : 失体感症に関する研究

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Abstract

Subjective complaints of diabetic patients were psychosomatically studied. For this purpose, 37 diabetic and 86 non-diabetic patients were classified into 4 groups : 1) Group A, 30 diabetics free of psychological factors; 2) Group A', 7 diabetics with psychological factors; 3) Group B, 38 non-diabetics with psychological factors and Group C, 30 non-diabetics free of psychological factors. Their subjective complaints were evaluated by a questionnaire consisting of 17 questions.1) The number of subjective complaints was greater in Group A' and B than in Group C, bot not than in group A.2) The number of subjective complaints was studied in Group A, as a function of the fasting blood sugar level, with the result of no significant correlation between them. The number of subjective complaints was greater, however, in patients with neurotic pattern or depressive tendency on psychological test of CMI and SDS.3) Psychosomatic medicine about diabetic mellitus in the past was mainly concerned with neurotic or depressive tendency that was seen in diabetics with psychological factors, but authors noticed that lacking in subjective complaints.4) Treatment for subjective complaints of diabetics by means of bio-feedback of the blood sugar level is worthy of consideration.

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