Question

A group of pediatric nurses is discussing the diagnosis of Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Which statement most accurately describes this disorder
a. "It is seen when one person fabricates or induces illness in another to get attention."
b. Munchausen syndrome is difficult to diagnose because many other conditions need to be ruled out first.
c. Munchausen syndrome is a mental disorder in which the patient fakes illness to gain attention and sympathy.
d. The person’s symptoms don’t make sense when compared with the test results.

Answer 1

Answer:

a. "It is seen when one person fabricates or induces illness in another to get attention."

Explanation:

Munchausen syndrome is a form of child abuse and mental illness. Usually the person in charge of caring for the child, who may even be his mother, will invent a series of false symptoms or cause them, so that they seem real. Its etiology is completely unknown, nobody knows with certainty that the cause. It is thought that suddenly the caregiver may have been the victim of some type of abuse in his childhood or presents the same syndrome.