Psychosomatic disorders in children in pediatric hospital settings

• Main Authors: M. A. Kalinina, L. L. Baz
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Academician I.P. Pavlov First St. Petersburg State Medical University 2013-12-01
• Series: Učenye Zapiski Sankt-Peterburgskogo Gosudarstvennogo Medicinskogo Universiteta im. Akad. I.P. Pavlova
• Subjects: children; psychopathological frustration; symptom
• Online Access: https://www.sci-notes.ru/jour/article/view/208

The authors present the results of medical examination of the children who had been admitted to the pediatric hospital for suspected vegetovascular dystonia. The group 29 children at the age of 6-12 ys. careful examination revealed prevalence of psychopathological disorders in the range from prenosolgic forms to distinct psychic disorders. Partial symptoms of the post-remedial defect corresponding - in the period of examination - to the scheme of dysharmonical, mosaic development of a personality. Analysis of the anamnestic parameters revealed some aggravating factors - the factors of risk for development of psychosomatic pathology (hereditary, social deprivating, etc.). Polymorphism of the patients symptomatics (symptoms suggests complex investigation of the children including consultation of the psychiatrist.