title: Symptoms without signs in outpatients attending ophthalmology clinics.
abstract: Ophthalmic outpatients without physical signs have been shown, as a group, to be significantly more anxious and depressed than a control group. They also have a higher incidence of somatic complaints of a kind commonly made by patients with psychiatric 'disorder'. There was a higher incidence of past psychiatric history in the proband group, and they also gave a greater subjective assessment of recent conscious life stress.
mesh_terms: D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000235:genetics; D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological