Table 3 |
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| Psychosomatic diagnostic categories within each cluster | |||||
| Moderate psychosomatic group | Somatization group | Severe psychosomatic group | Chi-square | p | |
| (N = 53) % (N) | (N = 28) % (N) | (N = 27) % (N) | |||
| AN-BP subtype | 25% (8) | 53% (17) | 22% (7) | ||
| AN-R subtype | 57% (44) | 15% (12) | 27% (20) | 15.58 | 0.001 |
| Health anxiety | 0% (0) | 7% (2) | 85% (23) | 77.59 | 0.001 |
| Disease phobia | 0% (0) | 14% (4) | 15% (4) | 8.18 | 0.017 |
| Thanatophobia | 2% (1) | 21% (6) | 0% (0) | 13.85 | 0.002 |
| Illness denial | 52% (27) | 54% (15) | 93% (15) | 13.88 | 0.001 |
| Functional symptoms | 15% (8) | 64% (18) | 70% (19) | 29.74 | 0.001 |
| Persistent somatization | 6% (3) | 21% (6) | 7% (2) | 5.16 | 0.076 |
| Conversion symptom | 12% (6) | 60% (17) | 7% (2) | 29.716 | 0.001 |
| Anniversary reaction | 0% (0) | 39% (11) | 0% (0) | 34.59 | 0.001 |
| Type A behaviour | 19% (10) | 57% (16) | 56% (15) | 15.60 | 0.001 |
| Irritable mood | 2% (1) | 54% (15) | 85% (23) | 57.99 | 0.001 |
| Demoralization | 19% (10) | 61% (17) | 96% (26) | 44.12 | 0.001 |
| Alexithymia | 38% (20) | 39% (11) | 100% (27) | 30.51 | 0.001 |
Legend:
AN-R: Anorexia Nervosa Restricting type.
AN-BP: Anorexia Nervosa Binge-Purging type.
Abbate-Daga et al. BMC Psychiatry 2013 13:14 doi:10.1186/1471-244X-13-14
