Arthritis and rheumatism
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Arthritis and rheumatism · Mar 1996
Psychiatric diagnoses in patients with fibromyalgia are related to health care-seeking behavior rather than to illness.
To compare the frequency of lifetime psychiatric disorders among 3 groups of subjects: patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) from a tertiary care setting, community residents with FMS who had not sought medical care for their FMS symptoms ("FMS nonpatients"), and healthy controls. ⋯ Psychiatric disorders are not intrinsically related to the FMS syndrome. Instead, multiple lifetime psychiatric diagnoses may contribute to the decision to seek medical care for FMS in tertiary care settings.