Screening for Somatoform Symptoms.

SOMS

What it measures

Somatoform / medically-unexplained physical symptoms (DSM and ICD somatization criteria) + Somatization Symptom Index

Length and format

53 (SOMS-2); 68 (SOMS-7); SOMS-7 day variant. presence (SOMS-2) or 5-point severity (SOMS-7) per symptom, recall window varies (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Several incl. EN, ES and other European languages; German original

Normative data

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Licence

copyrighted - commercial

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Reference

Rief, W., Hiller, W., & Heuser, J. (1997). SOMS - Das Screening fur Somatoforme Storungen: Manual zum Fragebogen. Bern: Huber/Hogrefe.