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http://dx.doi.org/10.22722/KJPM.2020.28.2.135

Relationship between Somatization and Mental Health of Registered Nurses  

Joo, Jungmin (Division of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital)
Goo, Ae Jin (Mirae Psychiatric Clinic)
Kim, Sung-Wan (Department of Psychiatry, Chonnam National University Medical School)
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Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine / v.28, no.2, 2020 , pp. 135-142 More about this Journal
Abstract
Objectives : To identify the relationship between somatization, stress, depression, anxiety, and psychological symptoms risk for nurses working in the intensive care unit. Create clinical evidence of psychosomatic medicine research and complement the meaning of somatization. Methods : Seventy of the mental health checkups conducted by the National Mental Health Center among the nurses using tools including Perceived Stress scale, Fatigue Severity Scale, Patient Health questionnaire-15, Korean Beck Depression Inventory, Korean Beck Anxiety Inventory, and Symptom Checklist-90-Revision. Results : 12.9% of the patients experienced more than moderate somatization. There was no statistical relationship between somatization and psychological stress perception, but feeling of anxiety and decreased self-confidence were related to the level of somatization. The group with severe somatization experienced more depression and anxiety. The group with high physical fatigue also had no statistical relationship with psychological stress perception, but had an effect on the feeling of tension, stress, or decreased control. Physical fatigue level was increased by experience of depression, not by anxiety. For psychological symptoms the higher the level of somatization, the higher the obsession and hostility was explored. In the linear regression model, stress, depression, and anxiety accounted for 39.3% of somatization and 16.1% of physical fatigue symptoms. Conclusions : We can estimate the decrease in stress cognitive symptoms, accompanying depression and anxiety, compulsion and hostility as characteristics of somatization. The causal relationship between somatization and psychological symptoms cannot be confirmed in this study, but the interrelationships are observed, can be referred to mediation strategies.
Keywords
Nurses; Depression; Anxiety; Fatigue; Mental Health;
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