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Latent Variable Models of Functional Somatic Distress
1 Oct 1997
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Latent variable models of functional somatic symptoms were estimated for a sample of 686 family medicine patients. Symptom items from the NIMH Diagnostic Interview Schedule were selected to approximate diagnoses of fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated that hypothesized latent variables of somatic depression,...
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