title: Non-organic dyspepsia : a controlled psychometric study.
abstract: Fifty-two non-organic dyspeptics, 40 organic dyspeptics and 40 age-sex matched normal controls administered the Hindi version of Middlesex Health Questionnaire and the Amritsar Depressive Inventory. The non-organic cases scored significantly higher compared to the other two groups on the both the tests and on all the sub-scales of the MHQ. Cases with irritable bowel syndrome scored maximum on obsessive subscale and the remaining sub-groups (hypochondriasis, depression and hysterical neurosis) on the somatic subscale. The mean total score on MHQ was maximum in hysteria and minimum in irritable bowel syndrome.
authors.affiliation: Lecturer in Psychiatry, M. L. B. Medical College, Jhansi.
authors.forename: G D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Shukla
authors.forename: D N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Mishra
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Agarwal