Factors associated with internalizing or somatic symptoms in a cross-sectional study of school children in grades 1-10

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Løhre, Audhild ^a,b   Lydersen, Stian ^a   Vatten, Lars J ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Faculty of Medicine Norwegian University of Science and Technology ^*  (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONELINESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL HEALTH EDUCATION; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STOMACH PAIN; TEACHER;

EID: 78650101107     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17532000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1753-2000-4-33     Document Type: Article

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