不登校児にみられる肥満の心身医学的研究

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Recenthy there is a rapid increase in the number of children with school refusal in Japan. Children with obesity symptom accompanied with school refusal were oftern seen in child psychiatric outpatient clinics.In order to investigate the relationship between obesity and school refusal, own subjects were divided into the following three groups and a psychosomatic analysis was carried out by taking into consideration of their main clinical symptoms, family backgrounds and personality features.(A) the group of children with obesity as well as school refusal.(B) the group of children with school resufal but with no obesity.(C) the group who suffered only from obesity Forty-one cases consisting of 25 males and 16 females, ages 9 to 14,were examined at the outpatient clinic at the Dept. of Psychiatry and Neurology of Osaka Children's Medical Center during the period of 1977 to 1981.These subjects were divided into the above-mentioned groups, the number of the groups A, B and C was 15,15 and 11 repectively.The results were as follows : (1) 8.3% of the examined children with school refusal were obese, and this percentage was equal to that of all pupils and students in Japan.(2) All cases of the Group A were of the chronic school refusal type, whereas in Group B we found some with the acute type besides those with the chronic type.(3) Concerning the family environment, about a half of the group A had such problems as divorce of the parents, father's alcoholism and the other half were apparently from the typical latent destructive families.(4) With regard to eating habits, all of subjects the Group A showed hyperphagia, while none showed it in the Group C.(5) As a result of GAT, the order of total anxiety tendency grade was B>A>C.The members of the Group A obtained high scores in somatic signs and anxiety about human relationship. The Group B tended to feel isolated fearful and hypersensitive; however most of the Group C members were in the normal range.According to our investigation being obese in infancy did not cause feelings of rejection or contempt on the part of their parents or playmates. But in childhood, obesity was rejected and despised by their school mates and even their parents. So they got inferiority complex and distorted body-image.Growing fat in childhood was caused by hyperphagia which was affected by underlying parental discord, and being obesity hurt their body-image. It was assumed that these children tended to develop neurotic characters and escape from the society, resuling in their refusal to go to school.
日本心身医学会の論文
1985-06-01

不登校児にみられる肥満の心身医学的研究

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