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Psychosomatic complaints and sense of coherence among adolescents in a county in Sweden: a cross-sectional school survey

BACKGROUND: Over the last five to ten years there has been an increase in psychosomatic complaints (PSC) in Swedish children. The objective of the study was to examine the relation between PSC and sense of coherence (SOC). METHODS: A cross-sectional school survey in the county of Västmanland, Sweden...

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Autores principales: Simonsson, Bo, Nilsson, Kent W, Leppert, Jerzy, Diwan, Vinod K
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2265297/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18261203
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0759-2-4
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author Simonsson, Bo
Nilsson, Kent W
Leppert, Jerzy
Diwan, Vinod K
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Nilsson, Kent W
Leppert, Jerzy
Diwan, Vinod K
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description BACKGROUND: Over the last five to ten years there has been an increase in psychosomatic complaints (PSC) in Swedish children. The objective of the study was to examine the relation between PSC and sense of coherence (SOC). METHODS: A cross-sectional school survey in the county of Västmanland, Sweden. All 16- and 19-year old adolescents present at school on the day of the survey were asked to complete a questionnaire in their classrooms during a one-lesson hour session under the supervision of their teachers. Totally 3,998 students in both private and public schools, studying in ninth grade elementary school or third grade secondary school participated. RESULTS: The results from our study show that there is a statistically significant relation between PSC and SOC among adolescents. It also shows that adolescents with a weak SOC score have more symptoms of PSC. CONCLUSION: Our study indicates that SOC can help the adolescents to choose a coping strategy that is appropriate for the situation and thereby may prevent them from developing PSC. However, additional studies are needed to confirm our findings.
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spelling pubmed-22652972008-03-07 Psychosomatic complaints and sense of coherence among adolescents in a county in Sweden: a cross-sectional school survey Simonsson, Bo Nilsson, Kent W Leppert, Jerzy Diwan, Vinod K Biopsychosoc Med Research BACKGROUND: Over the last five to ten years there has been an increase in psychosomatic complaints (PSC) in Swedish children. The objective of the study was to examine the relation between PSC and sense of coherence (SOC). METHODS: A cross-sectional school survey in the county of Västmanland, Sweden. All 16- and 19-year old adolescents present at school on the day of the survey were asked to complete a questionnaire in their classrooms during a one-lesson hour session under the supervision of their teachers. Totally 3,998 students in both private and public schools, studying in ninth grade elementary school or third grade secondary school participated. RESULTS: The results from our study show that there is a statistically significant relation between PSC and SOC among adolescents. It also shows that adolescents with a weak SOC score have more symptoms of PSC. CONCLUSION: Our study indicates that SOC can help the adolescents to choose a coping strategy that is appropriate for the situation and thereby may prevent them from developing PSC. However, additional studies are needed to confirm our findings. BioMed Central 2008-02-08 /pmc/articles/PMC2265297/ /pubmed/18261203 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0759-2-4 Text en Copyright © 2008 Simonsson et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Psychosomatic complaints and sense of coherence among adolescents in a county in Sweden: a cross-sectional school survey
title_full_unstemmed Psychosomatic complaints and sense of coherence among adolescents in a county in Sweden: a cross-sectional school survey
title_short Psychosomatic complaints and sense of coherence among adolescents in a county in Sweden: a cross-sectional school survey
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2265297/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18261203
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0759-2-4
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