Prevalence of Psychosomatic Symptoms among Adolescent's Computer Users

Manshaee, Gholam Reza; Hamidi, Eftekhar

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.06.751

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“…The patient of psychosomatic symptoms has bodily symptoms of psychic, emotional, or mental origin; in which the physical symptoms are caused or exacerbated by psychological factors. The physical symptoms varies for every individual, some examples are headache, lower back pain, or irritable bowel syndrome [4] In DSM-5, this disorder is known as somatic symptoms disorder. The effect of this particular disorder would cause a disturbance in their daily activity.…”

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Relationship Between Perceived Stress and Physical Symptoms with Somatic Symptoms Disorder as a Moderating Variable: Study on Medical Student

Albert¹,

Tiatri²,

Basaria³

2020

Proceedings of the Tarumanagara International Conference on the Applications of Social Sciences and Humanities (TICASH 2019)

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Human as a living creature has two component; body (soma) and mind/soul (psyche). The reciprocal relationship between them has been studied in philosophy and medical field. A supporting theory states "A disturbance in one component would cause a disturbance to the other". Example of the possible disturbance is stress (mentally) or physical pain/symptoms (physically). The theory has a similar definition to a specific clinical disorder; somatic symptoms disorder (SSD) that will be used as a moderator. This study aims to know the relationship between perceived stress (PSS) and physical symptoms (PHQ), and in what level would SSD moderate the relation between both variables. The subjects of this research were 152 medical students whom are doing internship. The data gathered were processed using SPSS and analyzed with regression with moderator model. The results shows a significant relationship between PSS and PHQ (r 2 of 0.40, p=0.000<0.001). The focal predictor shows the moderator only works only for subjects that are categorized on "low" in SSD score. Showing up to 0.2533 scores as effect and p=0.0001<0.001. Linear regression between PSS and PHQ shows an r 2 =0.18, p=0.000<0.001; indicating that with or without SSD, the relationship between PSS and PHQ remain to have a significant relation.

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Relationship Between Perceived Stress and Physical Symptoms with Somatic Symptoms Disorder as a Moderating Variable: Study on Medical Student

Albert¹,

Tiatri²,

Basaria³

2020

Proceedings of the Tarumanagara International Conference on the Applications of Social Sciences and Humanities (TICASH 2019)

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“…(4) Employees who working for hours on computer or even sitting in a computer workplaces are directly exposed to the harmful effects of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation. (5) The most frequently occurring health problems among computer users are Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS), pain of wrist and shoulder, low back pain, tension headaches and psychosocial stress. (6) A number of epidemiological studies reported a relation between environmental Extremely Low Frequency Electromagnetic Field (ELF-EMF) and the onset of leukemia or Alzheimer's disease.…”

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Toxicological Effects of Generated Radiations on the Eye among Computer Users

Mohammad¹,

Abo-Elkheir²,

Masoud³

et al. 2015

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Background: Nowadays computers being used in every aspect of life in both developed and developing countries. These electronic devices generate a form of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation which exerts negative influence on human health. Eyes are particularly vulnerable; thus computer vision syndrome or dry eye disease is the most frequent health problems among computer users. This study aims to assess toxic effects of computer generated radiation on eyes among a sample of Egyptian computer users. Subjects and Methods: this is a cross-sectional study conducted on 100 volunteers from both sexes who worked daily on a computer. All participants were subjected to a selffilling questionnaire including questions about personal information, work and workplace related information as well as, Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI) with 12 questions about symptoms of eye and vision problems. Results: this study revealed that more than three fourths (79.0%) of the studied computer workers suffered from symptoms of dry eye disease, 40.5% of them had severe eye affection, 26.6 % had moderate and 32.9 % had mild eye affection. Those with severe eye affection of participants with dry eye disease were using the computer for a mean duration of 10.3 ± 2.4 hour/day and 70.9 % of them not taking regular rest during computer work. Wearing visual aids showed a significant association with dry eye disease (P = 0.002).Conclusion: the majority of participants had symptoms of dry eye disease. The most vulnerable persons were those who wearing medical glasses or lenses and use the computer for around 10 h / day without regular rest. Occurrence of eye dryness was relevant to the presence of fan and air conditioner in the workplace. These results indicated the valuable role and the essential need for visual assessment of computer workers for early and proper diagnosis of dry eye disease in order to minimize its impact on their productivity and quality of life.

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