[Psychosomatic aspects of emesis gravidarum: somatic and psychosocial status of females in early pregnancy].
81 women were tested in early pregnancy with a personality questionnaire (FPI), a bodily symptoms checklist and a structured questionnaire with respect to various psychosocial events. Women with and without Emesis in early pregnancy differ significantly according to the following characteristics: Quality and quantity of past and present bodily symptoms, psychosomatic affect-resonance, calmness, occupational attitudes, description of family-relationship and expectancy to vomit. Results are interpreted that vomiting in early pregnancy seems to be a psychosomatic reaction, based on a extenuated perception of reality, in combination with difficulties "leaving home" as well an expectancy to vomit in pregnancy.
D001294:Attitude to Health; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D006939:Hyperemesis Gravidarum / Q000523:psychology*; D008393:Marriage; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011247:Pregnancy; D011262:Pregnancy Trimester, Second; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012931:Social Environment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
Zur Psychosomatik der Emesis Gravidarum: Die somatische und psychosoziale Situation von Frauen in der Frühschwangerschaft.