Neurasthenia, subjective health complaints and sensitization
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Neurasthenia, subjective health complaints and sensitization.
Patients (n=997) visiting general practitioners in an area in Western Norway completed a battery of questionnaires related to subjective health complaints and fatigue. An additional 78 patients were referred directly to the hospital for neurasthenia. After screening the questionnaires and interviews with a selected sample, a total of 73 patients were finally accepted as 'neurasthenia' patients ...
متن کاملSubjective health complaints, sensitization, and sustained cognitive activation (stress).
INTRODUCTION This review argues that "subjective health complaints" is a better and neutral term for "unexplained medical symptoms." The most common complaints are musculoskeletal pain, gastrointestinal complaints and "pseudoneurology" (tiredness, sleep problems, fatigue, and mood changes). These complaints are common in the general population, but for some these complaints reach a level that r...
متن کاملA sensitive body or a sensitive mind? Associations among somatic sensitization, cognitive sensitization, health worry, and subjective health complaints.
OBJECTIVES Psychobiological sensitization and health worry appear to be involved in the etiology of clinical manifestations of subjective health complaints (SHCs) via amplified processing of health-related information. However, it is not clear whether sensitization and health worry are also associated with common SHCs, which are extremely prevalent and are responsible for a large part of both h...
متن کاملDo healthy people worry? Modern health worries, subjective health complaints, perceived health, and health care utilization.
BACKGROUND Modern health worries (MHW) are concerns related to modern or technological features of daily life (e.g., air pollution, x-rays, food additives, etc.), and have been associated with subjective health complaints (SHC) and health care use. PURPOSE The MHW scale was expected to predict aspects of health status in healthy individuals (e.g., health care visits, health perceptions, and m...
متن کاملAre subjective health complaints a result of modern civilization?
Subjective health complaints without or with minimal somatic findings (pain, fatigue) are common and frequent reasons for encounter with the general practitioner and for long-term sickness leave and disability. The complaints are often attributed to the stressors of modern life. Is this true? We interviewed 120 Aborigine Mangyans (native population, M age = 33.5 years, 72.5% women) living under...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Psychoneuroendocrinology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0306-4530
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2005.04.011