Psychological Problems and Perceived Social Support among Patient with Somatoform Disorder

Amanda B. Tuolor; Nurnahar Ahmed; Chitra Borah

doi:10.63363/aijfr.2025.v06i06.2058

Psychological Problems and Perceived Social Support among Patient with Somatoform Disorder

Author(s)	Mrs. Amanda B. Tuolor, Dr. Nurnahar Ahmed, Mrs. Chitra Borah
Country	India
Abstract	Somatoform disorders are mental illness that causes unexplained physical symptoms such as headache, feeling sick, abdominal pain, bowel problems, tiredness and sexual problems. The unexplained symptoms of somatoform disorders often lead to general health anxiety in which affected people tend to be emotional about their symptoms and can greatly affect their day to day life functioning. The present study was conducted to assess the psychological problems and perceived social support among patient with somatoform disorder. A non-experimental quantitive approach and descriptive design were adopted. Total fifty-two patients were selected using the purposive sampling technique who visited the OPD of a tertiary mental health care institute. Structured socio-demographic proforma, Depression, Anxiety and Stress-21(DAS-21) and Multidimensional Perceived Social Support (MPSS) were used to collect data after ethical clearance and written permission from the concerned authorities. The study findings showed that majority of the participants were female i.e.78.8% and 21.2% were male and results showed that 40.4% were extremely depressed, 53.8% were extremely anxious, 19.2% had severe anxiety and 28.8% were severely stressed. In terms of social support the participants expressed perceived support from significant other was the highest i.e. 59.6%, support from family was 57.7% and support from friends was 36.5%. The overall perceived social support showed that 46.2% had moderate support, 42.3% had high support and 11.5% had low support. The psychological problems and perceived social supports are found to be independent of socio-demographic profile of the participants except for the religion which was found to be significantly associated (χ2= 4.727, p-0.05). Correlation between anxiety and social support was found which implies that individuals who perceive higher levels of social support tend to experience lower levels of anxiety, whereas those with lower perceived support may have higher anxiety.
Keywords	psychological problems, social support, somatoform disorder, depression, anxiety, stress
Field	Biology > Medical / Physiology
Published In	Volume 6, Issue 6, November-December 2025
Published On	2025-11-21
DOI	https://doi.org/10.63363/aijfr.2025.v06i06.2058
Short DOI	https://doi.org/hbdswp

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