Explanations for female excess psychosomatic symptoms in adolescence: Evidence from a school-based cohort in the West of Scotland

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Sweeting, Helen N ^a   West, Patrick B ^a   Der, Geoff J ^a  

^a MRC SOCIAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY HEIGHT; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIZZINESS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF ESTEEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STOMACH PAIN; UNITED KINGDOM; ABDOMINAL PAIN; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; INSTRUMENTATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; SCHOOL; SELF CONCEPT; STUDENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; COHORT STUDIES; DIZZINESS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; SCHOOLS; SCOTLAND; SELF CONCEPT; STUDENTS;

EID: 38949175439     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-298     Document Type: Article

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