title: Somatic symptoms in a community clinic.
abstract: In this cross-sectional study, all subjects attending a community based mental health clinic were examined with the objective to understand the presenting problems and to find out whether somatic complaints were the chief complaint, whether the somatic complaint produced any disability in financial, occupational and social spheres. Also an attempt is made to identify somatizing disorders using Swartz's index.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bangalore-560 029, India.
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Chaturvedi
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Upadhyaya
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rao