Individual variation in temporal relationships between stress and functional somatic symptoms

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 34-39

  Van Gils, Anne ^a   Burton, Christopher ^b   Bos, Elisabeth H ^a   Janssens, Karin A M ^a   Schoevers, Robert A ^a   Rosmalen, Judith G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electronic diaries; Functional somatic symptoms; Idiographic; Medically unexplained symptoms; Stress; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DYSPEPSIA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL SOMATIC SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; PARESTHESIA; PELVIC PAIN; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; THORAX PAIN; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEAKNESS;

ELECTRONIC DIARIES; FUNCTIONAL SOMATIC SYMPTOMS; IDIOGRAPHIC; MEDICALLY UNEXPLAINED SYMPTOMS; STRESS; TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SELF REPORT; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84901983946     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: 18791360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2014.04.006     Document Type: Article

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