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Table 1 Comparison of Patient Characteristics by Presence or Absence of Somatization(N = 871)

From: Clinical features of outpatients with somatization symptoms treated at a Japanese psychosomatic medicine clinic

 

Somatization

 
 

Positive

(N = 606)

Negative

(N = 265)

p value

Age, years (SD)

43.6 (18.9)

42.6 (18.6)

0.44

Sex (%)

  

0.60

 Male

264 (30.3)

110 (12.6)

 

 Female

342 (39.3)

155 (17.8)

 

Academic history (%)

  

0.58

 College or above

197 (22.6)

81 (9.3)

 

 High school or under

359 (41.2)

176 (20.2)

 

 Unknown

50 (5.7)

8 (1.0)

 

Visit at patient’s initiative (%)

  

0.05

 Positive

311 (51.3)

154 (58.1)

 

 Negative

294 (48.5)

109 (41.1)

 

 Unknown

1 (<0.1)

2 (<0.1)

 

Referral form (%)

  

0.01

 Positive

391 (44.9)

144 (16.5)

 

 Negative

215 (24.7)

121 (13.9)

 

Marital history (%)

  

0.30

 Positive

255 (29.3)

101 (11.6)

 

 Negative

258 (29.6)

114 (13.1)

 

 Unknown

93 (10.7)

50 (5.7)

 

Continued treatment after first visit (%)a

  

0.16

 Positive

376 (43.2)

125 (14.4)

 

 Negative

184 (21.1)

78 (9.0)

 
  1. a”Continued treatment after first visit” excludes cases unknown after the first visit. Two-tailed t-tests were used to compare the mean differences. For categorical variables, Chi-square tests or proportion tests were used