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malingering
Pretending to be ill or injured for secondary gain, i.e. disability, sympathy etc.
- Slick criteria:
- evidence of exaggeration of fabrication on neuropsychological tests
- external incentive for fabricating or exaggerating symptoms
- self-reported evidence, such as discrepancies
- criteria not accounted for by neurologic, psychiatric, or developmental factors
- traumatic brain injury
- Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) & Inventory of Problems-29 (IOP-29)
- sickle cell disease is over-represented among those characterized as malingering
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sign/symptom
References
- Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.
- Bienenfeld D and Ahmed I
eMedicine: Malingering
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/293206-overview