A Study on the Evaluation of the Psychogenic Etiology by the Symptom Checklist-90-Revigion(SCL-90-R) and Treatment in Female Urethral Syndrome Patients

Whang, Jung Youle; Chang, Jun Ho

Abstract

From March 1983 to February 1988, 248 patients of female urethral syndrome were studied retrospectively. The results were as follows: 1. Both 113 cases of the patients group who showed female urethral syndrome and the same numbers of 113 as the control group who had been treated at this hospital with other medical diseases, were tested the Korean Manual of Symptom Checklist-90-Revision. In this way, female urethral syndrome patients scored up significantly higher on the anxiety, depression, and phobic anxietic symptoms than did the control group, and the results showed the evidence or psychosomatic etiologies on the female urethral syndrome (p<0.05 ). 2. Among the patients, the 135 patients were treated with transurethral fulguration, urethral dilatation and antibiotics. Tranquilizer and antidepressants were added to above mentioned treatment in another patients group, 113 patients. In this group, excellent result was obtained in cure rate. The cure rate was 83.2% (94 out of 113 cases) while only 57.8% (78 out of 135 cases) in group without tranquilizer and antidepressants in their treatment (p<0.06). 3. The tranquilizer and antidepressants did not influence on recurrence rate( p value ; not significant).