In this pattern of somatic symptom disorder the person's primary bodily problem is the experience of pain. question 12 options:

a. predominant pain pattern

b. factitious pattern

c. predominant conversion pattern

d. somatization pattern

Answer;

Predominant pain pattern.

Explanation;

Somatic symptom disorder is a disorder in which people become excessively distressed, concerned, and anxious about bodily symptoms that they are experiencing, and their lives are greatly and disproportionately disrupted by the symptoms.

Predominant pain pattern is a pattern of somatic symptom disorder in which the person's primary bodily problem is the experience of pain.

Concerns and disruption are disproportionate to severity and seriousness. Can begin at any age, more common in women.

It often develops after an accident or during an illness that has caused genuine pain, which then takes on a life of its own.