The covariation of common psychosomatic symptoms among children from socio‐economically differing residential areas. An epidemiological study
作者:
Gösta Alfvén,
期刊:
Acta Pædiatrica
(WILEY Available online 1993)
卷期:
Volume 82,
issue 5
页码: 484-487
ISSN:0803-5253
年代: 1993
DOI:10.1111/j.1651-2227.1993.tb12728.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
关键词: Chest pain;headache;psychosomatic medicine;recurrent abdominal pain;social environment
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Psychosomatic symptoms among children are believed to be commonplace. In this investigation by questionnaire, 47% of 1333 schoolchildren reported one or several symptoms, such as recurrent abdominal pain, headache, chest pains, loss of appetite and disturbances in bowel function. Coexistence of such symptoms was considerable and if a child had one of these, the probability that it would have one or more other symptoms was significantly increased. This correlation may strengthen both the suspicion that these symptoms are often psychosomatic and the idea that they have common CNS origin. There were appreciable differences in the frequency of the symptoms, between children at the more socially stable schools and schools with social problems. In the latter, the frequencies of symptoms differed between Swedish and immigrant children, which was not the case in the more socially stable schools.
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