A study of somatopsychic vulnerability in encopretic children.
In this article the results of a study to determine the degree of somatopsychic vulnerability in children with encopresis are discussed. A checklist was constructed for the registration of somatic and functional data relevant to encopresis. Twenty-five children with encopresis were compared with a control group. The expectation of the authors that a number of somatopsychic phenomena would occur more frequently among encopretics than among non-encopretics could not be confirmed. It appeared that somatic and psychic diseases were more frequent in the families of the children with encopresis than in the control group.
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004688:Encopresis / Q000150:complications*; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000150:complications*