| Positive prognostic factors | Negative prognostic factors |
- Onset in childhood or adolescence
| - Multiple physical symptoms
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| | - Longer duration of symptoms
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- Good response to initial treatment
| - Poor physical functioning
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- Comorbid anxiety or depression
| - Comorbid personality disorder
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- Subsequent change in marital status
| - Beliefs that symptoms are irreversible and caused by a disease with a known pathologic basis
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- Good therapeutic alliance with the clinician
| - Illness-related financial benefits
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