The relationship between various psychosocial factors and physical symptoms reported during primary-care health examinations

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 122, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 103-109

  Dorner, Thomas E ^a,b   Stronegger, Willibald J ^a   Rebhandl, Erwin ^c   Rieder, Anita ^b   Freidl, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Austrian Society of General Practice and Family Medicine   (Austria)

Author keywords

Gender; Pressure at work; Psychosocial stress; Sexual dissatisfaction,discomfort in family

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRY SKIN; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MENTAL STRESS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MYALGIA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SATISFACTION; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STRESS; STOMACH DISEASE; TINNITUS; WEAKNESS; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952475683     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00508-010-1312-6     Document Type: Article

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