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Psychosomatic Medicine 34:207-220 (1972)
© 1972 American Psychosomatic Society

The Study of the Psychiatric Symptoms of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

A Biometric Study

VIVIAN HOFF GANZ MA1, BARRY J. GURLAND MB, MRCP, DPM2, W. EDWARDS DEMING PhD3, and BERNICE FISHER MS2

1 Biometrics Research, New York State Department of Mental Hygiene, New York, NY Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University
2 Biometrics Research, New York State Department of Mental Hygiene New York, NY Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University
3 Statistical Surveys, Washington, DC

Address for reprint requests: Dr. B. J. Gurland, Biometrics Research, 722 West 168 Street, New York, NY 10032.

Psychiatric symptoms in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and in patients with rheumatoid arthritis were examined and compared using a structured interview covering 179 items of psychopathology. The systemic lupus erythematosus patients were 68 consecutive attenders at three general hospitals. The 36 rheumatoid arthritis patients were chosen from attenders at the same clinics as the systemic lupus erythematosus patients. The major conclusions of this study are a) that structured interviewing is feasible and useful in somatopsychic studies; b) that systemic lupus erythematosus patients have, as reported previously in the literature, a high frequency of psychiatric syndromes including those without organic symptoms; and c) that, consistent with expectations derived from the literature, the group of systemic lupus erythematosus patients showed more psychiatric symptoms than the group of rheumatoid arthritis patients.

Submitted on March 15, 1971
Revised on August 27, 1971




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