Environmental illness: Psychiatric diagnosis (Black, Rathe, & Goldstein, 1990)
Environmental illness: Psychiatric diagnosis (Black, Rathe, & Goldstein, 1990)
- Controlled investigation of 26 subjects diagnosed by their physicians as suffering environmental illness (EI) suggests that they suffer from psychiatric difficulties
- 65% of these subjects met criteria for a current or past mood, anxiety, or somatoform disorder compared with 28% of an age and sex-matched control group
- Patients with EI are significantly more likely to meet lifetime criteria for a major mental disorder