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Therapeutic Effects of Acupuncture Combined with Psychotherapy for Patients with Somatoform Disorders

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Somatoform Disorders

Part of the book series: Keio University Symposia for Life Science and Medicine ((KEIO,volume 3))

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The objective of the study reported in this chapter was to observe the therapeutic effect of acupuncture for the treatment of somatoform disorders. One hundred and twenty outpatients and inpatients with somatoform disorders were randomly assigned to an acupuncture plus psychotherapy group and a psychotherapy group. Cognitive psychotherapy was used in both treatment groups. Treatments lasted for 8 weeks. Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD), the Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety (HRSA), and the Four-Grade Clinical Assessment were used to assess the clinical effectiveness. The percentage of patients responding to acupuncture plus psychotherapy was significantly higher than that of patients treated with psychotherapy (P < 0.01). The HRSD and HRSA total scores decreased much more in patients treated with acupuncture plus psychotherapy than in patients treated with psychotherapy alone (P < 0.05, P < 0.01, respectively). Acupuncture plus psychotherapy had better therapeutic effects for patients with somatoform disorders than psychotherapy alone.

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  1. Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Second Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin Traditional Chinese Medicine College, Tianjin, 300150, P. R. China

    Dongfen Hou

  2. Department of Neurology, The General Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, 300052, P. R. China

    Shizong Song

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  1. Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, 160-8582, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Yutaka Ono M.D. (Assistant Professor) & Masahiro Asai M.D. (Professor and Chairman) (Assistant Professor) &  (Professor and Chairman)

  2. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Science, Medical Research Foundation Building, Royal Perth Hospital, 50 Murray Street, WA, 6000, Perth, Australia

    Aleksandar Janca M.D. (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

  3. Department of Psychiatry, University of Geneva, 1201, Geneva, Switzerland

    Norman Sartorius M.D. (Professor) (Professor)

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Hou, D., Song, S. (1999). Therapeutic Effects of Acupuncture Combined with Psychotherapy for Patients with Somatoform Disorders. In: Ono, Y., Janca, A., Asai, M., Sartorius, N. (eds) Somatoform Disorders. Keio University Symposia for Life Science and Medicine, vol 3. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68500-5_32

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68500-5_32

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