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The eventual definite diagnoses were classified into the following three groups: non-psychogenic disease (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 128), psychogenic symptoms (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 131), and mental illness (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 18). Subsequently, the chief complaints and other background information of the patient obtained at the first visit were compared among the three groups.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>More than half of the patient with non-psychogenic diseases (60.2%) presented with a single complaint at their first hospital visit; contrarily, less than half of the patients with psychogenic symptoms (23.7%) or mental illnesses (22.2%) presented with a single complaint at the first visit. Approximately, &lt;10% of the patients with non-psychogenic diseases had four or more multisystemic presentations at the first visit. The results of the receiver operating characteristic curve analysis revealed a fair discriminatory ability of the number of complaints to identify patients with psychogenic diseases or psychiatric backgrounds. 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