Somatic symptoms tend to increase during early adolescence and although youth's social environments and emotional functioning play a role in somatic symptoms, few studies have examined mechanisms through which social interaction could influence youth's somatic wellbeing. Participants were 132 youth (61.6% girls, Mage = 12.61 years, 84.7% Caucasian) and their mothers. Reciprocated best-friend dy...

The role of anxiety symptoms in the development functional somatic (FSS) is unknown. Somatic may be triggered by or give rise to symptoms. This study aimed 1) explore interrelationships among within-day worrying, feeling anxious, and symptoms, 2) investigate association between these overall level FSS. included 767 participants (83% females, mean age 39 years), who were recruited through an onl...

To assess the associations between job stress and somatic symptoms and to investigate the effect of individual coping on these associations. In July 2006, a cross-sectional study was conducted during a periodic health check-up of 185 Japanese male office workers (21-66 yr old) at a Japanese company. Job stress was measured by job demand, control, and strain (=job demand/control) based on the Jo...

Catechol-O-methyl transferase (COMT) gene variants are involved in different neuropsychiatric disorders and cognitive impairments, associated with altered dopamine function. This study investigated the genotypic haplotypic association of COMT rs4680 rs4618 polymorphisms severity other clinical symptoms 544 male 385 female subjects schizophrenia. rs4818 G carriers were more frequent patients mil...

OBJECTIVE To examine relationships among coping, stress responses, pain, somatic symptoms, and anxious/depressed symptoms in a sample of children and adolescents with recurrent abdominal pain (RAP). METHOD We assessed parents' reports of coping and involuntary responses to stress in relation to pain, somatic symptoms, and symptoms of anxiety and depression in a sample of 174 children and adol...

BACKGROUND Women have a higher prevalence of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and report more severe depressive symptoms than men. Several studies have suggested that gender differences in depression may occur because women report higher levels of somatic symptoms than men. Those studies, however, have not controlled or matched for non-somatic symptoms. The objective of this study was to examine...

BACKGROUND Several prospective longitudinal studies have suggested that somatic/affective depressive symptoms, but not cognitive/affective depressive symptoms, are related to prognosis in patients with heart disease, but findings have been inconsistent. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of cognitive/affective and somatic/affective symptoms of depression with cardiovascula...

BACKGROUND Among patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), depression is both common and underrecognized. The association of different manifestations of depression, somatic and cognitive, with depression recognition and long-term prognosis is poorly understood. METHODS AND RESULTS Depression was confirmed in 481 AMI patients enrolled from 21 sites during their index hospitalization wit...

BACKGROUND This study was designed to evaluate the psychiatrists' level of recognition of somatic symptoms associated to a major depressive episode (MDE) (DSM-IV-TR criteria) and the impact of those somatic symptoms on the treatment effectiveness. METHODS This non-interventional study was conducted in 25 medical offices in Puerto Rico from February to December 2003. It had 2 visits separated ...

The present study investigates the somatization symptoms among grammar school students. High school students (N=218) from a convenience sample school were asked to complete The Somatization Scale. Data analysis showed that girls reported somatization symptoms more frequently than boys. The analysis showed that 1.4% of students felt some of the somatic symptoms on a daily basis, while 6.9% of st...