OBJECTIVE To determine if mothers of youth with functional abdominal pain (FAP) experience more anxiety, depressive, and somatic symptoms and disorders than mothers of unaffected children. DESIGN Case-control study. SETTING Four primary care pediatric practices in western Pennsylvania. PARTICIPANTS Mothers of 8- to 15-year-old children and adolescents presenting with FAP (59 cases) or for...

BACKGROUND The aim of the RCT study was to investigate if the effect of a multidisciplinary intervention on return to work (RTW) and health care utilization differed by participants' self-reported health status at baseline, defined by a) level of somatic symptoms, b) health anxiety and c) self-reported general health. METHODS A total of 443 individuals were randomized to the intervention (n =...

Background In the present study we aimed to develop a German version of State-Trait Inventory for Cognitive and Somatic Anxiety (STICSA) evaluate psychometric properties. Associations cognitive somatic anxiety with other measures anxiety, depression, stress, elucidating possible underlying functional connections, were also examined,...

Background and purpose: The functional understanding and examination of competitive anxiety responses as temporal events that unfold as time-to-competition moves closer has emerged as a topical research area within the domains of sport psychology. However, little is known from an inclusive and interaction oriented perspective. Using the multidimensional anxiety theory as a framework, the presen...

anxiety of sports is one of the variables which is closely related to sports performance and happens in sports competitions. considering the negative effects of competitive anxiety on performance of athletes this study tries to compare competitive anxiety of amateur or professional female futsal players and its connection with self confidence and sports performance. the statistical population o...

This study attempts to determine whether the presentation of an experimentally manipulated somatic experience during a physically strenuous task can influence physical performance and symptom reporting. The study also compares the relative influence of experimentally manipulated somatic information (state somatization) with stable individual differences in the tendency to amplify physical sympt...