Epidemiology of unexplained fatigue and major depression in the community: the Baltimore ECA follow-up, 1981-1994.

Abstract

BACKGROUND:

Fatigue is a common, non-specific, subjective symptom associated with several medical and psychiatric illnesses. The purpose of this investigation was to explore further the epidemiology of unexplained fatigue in the general population and the relationship between fatigue and depression.

METHODS:

Somatization symptoms and hypochondriacal features in the general population.

Abstract

OBJECTIVE:

The principal goal of this study is to examine the base rates of somatoform symptoms and of hypochondriacal features in the general population.

METHODS:

A representative sample of 2050 persons in Germany was examined by use of screening for somatoform symptoms and the Whiteley Index.

RESULTS:

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