School of Medicine, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran.
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One of the most common psychiatric disorders is depression, that sometimes may be misdiayne because of various presentations, one of these presentations is somatic complaints and patients are referred the different physicans and specialists and received symptomatic therapies. The aim of this study is the determination of prevalence of depression in patients who referred to internal clinic of Hazrat-e-Rasool-e-Akram Hospital. This study was performed between September and march of 1997. All of these patients had various somatic problems for more than two years without any organic findings them the number of patients were one hundered and the assessment was performed by SCL-90-R test. Between these patients , the score of 37 them were about of mean score. Depression was more common low admission groups and also in female. This research shows that depression is one of the best diagnoses in patients with chronic and rewirten somatic complaints which physicans did not find any organic finding in them.
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Internal Accepted: 1999/06/22