Have there been changes in children's psychosomatic symptoms? A 10-year comparison from Finland

Pediatrics

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Santalahti, Paivi ^a   Aromaa, Minna ^b   Sourander, Andre ^a,d   Helenius, Hans ^c   Piha, Jorma ^a  

^a TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c TURKU UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Changes; Finland; Psychosomatic symptoms

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PARENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; TEACHER; ANXIETY; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NAUSEA; PAIN; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNIVERSITY; VOMITING;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANXIETY; ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FACULTY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEADACHE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NAUSEA; PAIN; PARENTS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; VOMITING;

EID: 23244431794     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 00314005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2004-1261     Document Type: Article

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