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factitious disorder

disease of mental health where symptoms are deliberately produced, feigned or exaggerated in order to falsely demonstrate the presence of an illness
Class type of: mental disorder Q2686385

Facts

6 properties
Instance of
class of disease
Subclass of
mental disorder
Different from
malingering, conversion disorder[4][5]
Health specialty
psychiatry, psychology[6][7]
ICD-9-CM
300.16[3]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Medicine[8]
🏷️ Also known as
en factitious disorder en Munchausen syndrome en Münchausen syndrome ar اضطراب مفتعل de Artifizielle Störung el Πλασματική διαταραχή es trastorno facticio fa اختلال ساختگی fr pathomimie fr trouble factice it disturbo fittizio ja 作為症 ja 虚偽性障害 nl nagebootste stoornis pl Zaburzenia pozorowane pt transtorno factício ro Tulburări facticioase ru имитированное расстройство ru мнимое расстройство ru симулятивное расстройство
🔖 Identifiers · 24
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh93000060
OpenAlex ID
C2780304817
BNCF Thesaurus ID
70046
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
12345783f
Disease Ontology ID
DOID:1766
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/factitious-disorder
Exact match
purl.obolibrary.org, identifiers.org
Freebase ID
/m/03s_pg
ICD-10-CM
F68.11
ICD-11 ID (Foundation)
790764418, 430567349
ICD-11 ID (MMS)
6D50
IdRef ID
04070484X, 032425635
Show all 24 identifiers +12
J9U entity ID
987007544382805171
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
factitious-disorders
KBpedia ID
FactitiousDisorder
MeSH descriptor ID
D005162
MeSH tree code
F03.875.375
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID
XX555920
ScienceDirect topic ID
medicine-and-dentistry/factitious-disorder, neuroscience/factitious-disorder, pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/factitious-disease, nursing-and-health-professions/factitious-disease
Topic's main category
Category:Factitious disorders
UMLS CUI
C0015481, C0233752
WikiProjectMed ID
Factitious disorder
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Disease", "ICDNine300.16"], Entity["Disease", {"ICDNine300.16", "Primary"}]
Yale LUX ID
concept/b297a81d-c436-401a-ba33-74ec27e0b4ab

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🔗 Connections
Subtypes 4
factitious disorder imposed on self, factitious disorder imposed on another, Münchausen by Internet, factitious dermatitis
Different from 2
conversion disorder, malingering
Health specialty 2
psychology, psychiatry
← Different from 2
conversion disorder, malingering
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
WikiProject Medicine
Subclass of 1
mental disorder
Topic's main category 1
Category:Factitious disorders
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Factitious disorders
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Summary

factitious disorder is a class of disease[1]. It is a type of mental disorder[2].

Related Entities

psychiatry psychology

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · VastV0idInSpace0 · 2026-11-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wolfram Language entity code → Entity["Disease", "ICDNine300.16"], Entity["Disease", {"ICDNine300.16", "Primary"}]
    "Created claim: Wolfram Language entity code: Entity["Disease", {"ICDNine300.16", "Primary"}], Matched to factitious disorder (#54040149) in…"
  2. 3d ago · VastV0idInSpace0 · 2026-11-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wolfram Language entity code → Entity["Disease", "ICDNine300.16"], Entity["Disease", {"ICDNine300.16", "Primary"}]
    "Created claim: Wolfram Language entity code: Entity["Disease", "ICDNine300.16"], Matched to factitious disorder (#54035153) in…"
  3. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → mental disorder
    Health specialty → psychiatry, psychology
    Topic's main category → Category:Factitious disorders
    On focus list of Wikimedia project → WikiProject Medicine
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007544382805171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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