Insecure attachment and frequent attendance in primary care: a longitudinal cohort study of medically unexplained symptom presentations in ten UK general practices

In primary care frequent attenders with medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) pose a clinical and health resource challenge. We sought to understand these presentations in terms of the doctor-patient relationship, specifically to test the hypothesis that such patients have insecure emotional attachme...

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description In primary care frequent attenders with medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) pose a clinical and health resource challenge. We sought to understand these presentations in terms of the doctor-patient relationship, specifically to test the hypothesis that such patients have insecure emotional attachment. We undertook a cohort follow-up study of 410 patients with MUS. Baseline questionnaires assessed adult attachment style, psychological distress, beliefs about the symptom, non-specific somatic symptoms, and physical function. A telephone interview following consultation assessed health worry, general practitioner (GP) management and satisfaction with consultation. The main outcome was annual GP consultation rate. Of consecutive attenders, 18% had an MUS. This group had a high mean consultation frequency of 5.24 [95% confidence interval (CI) 4.79-5.69] over the follow-up year. The prevalence of insecure attachment was 28 (95% CI 23-33) %. A significant association was found between insecure attachment style and frequent attendance, even after adjustment for sociodemographic characteristics, presence of chronic physical illness and baseline physical function [odds ratio (OR) 1.96 (95% CI 1.05-3.67)]. The association was particularly strong in those patients who believed that there was a physical cause for their initial MUS [OR 9.52 (95% CI 2.67-33.93)]. A possible model for the relationship between attachment style and frequent attendance is presented. Patients with MUS who attend frequently have insecure adult attachment styles, and their high consultation rate may therefore be conceptualized as pathological care-seeking behaviour linked to their insecure attachment. Understanding frequent attendance as pathological help seeking driven by difficulties in relating to caregiving figures may help doctors to manage their frequently attending patients in a different way.
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Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Attachment
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Attitude to Health
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Emotional disorders
Emotions
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General practitioners
Health
Humans
Logistic Models
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Male
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Object Attachment
Patient Acceptance of Health Care - psychology
Patient Acceptance of Health Care - statistics & numerical data
Patients
Physician-Patient Relations
Primary care
Primary Health Care
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Somatoform Disorders - epidemiology
Somatoform Disorders - psychology
Somatoform disorders. Psychosomatics
Stress, Psychological - epidemiology
Stress, Psychological - psychology
United Kingdom - epidemiology
Young Adult
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