Studying ICD-11 Primary Health Care bodily stress syndrome in Brazil: do many functional disorders represent just one syndrome?

Objective: Disorders characterized by “distressing unexplained somatic symptoms” are challenging. In the ICD-11 Primary Health Care (PHC) Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Mental Disorders (ICD-11 PHC), a new category, bodily stress syndrome (BSS), was included to diagnose patients presenti...

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Main Authors: Sandra Fortes, Carolina Ziebold, Geoffrey M. Reed, Rebeca Robles-Garcia, Monica R. Campos, Emilene Reisdorfer, Ricardo Prado, David Goldberg, Linda Gask, Jair J. Mari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP) 2018-10-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-44462018005007108&lng=en&tlng=en