Psychosocial factors affecting psychosomatic symptoms in Japanese schoolchildren

Tanaka, Hidetaka; Tamai, Hiroshi; Terashima, Shigenori; Takenaka, Yukinori; Tanaka, Toshitaka

doi:10.1046/j.1442-200x.2000.01243.x

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“…These [17,[31][32][33]. The aim of our study was to examine associations between Swedish parents' activities together with their children, the parents' experiences of time pressure and the children's health.…”

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Swedish parents’ activities together with their children and children’s health: A study of children aged 2–17 years

Berntsson

Ringsberg

2014

Scand J Public Health

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Background: Nordic children's health has declined. Studies show that parents' engagement in children's leisure-time activities might provide beneficial health outcomes for children. Aim: The aim of the present study was to examine the association between Swedish parents' activities together with their children, the parents' experiences of time pressure and their children's health. Methods: Data of 1461 Swedish children aged 2-17 years old that were collected in the NordChild study of 2011 were used. We analyzed physical health, diseases and disabilities, psychosomatic health and well-being, and the parents' experiences of time pressure; and we calculated the associations between parental activity together with the child and health indicators. Results: Activities that were significantly and positively associated with children's health at ages 2-17 years of age were: playing and playing games; going to the cinema, theatre, and sporting events; reading books; playing musical instruments/singing; sports activities; watching TV/video/DVD. Playing video games or computer games, driving child to activities and going for walks were significantly and positively associated at age groups 7-12 years and 13-17 years. Activities that were negatively associated with health were: surfing/blogging on the Internet, going shopping and doing homework. Parents who were not experiencing time pressures had a higher level of activity together with their children. The parental experience of time pressure was associated with work time, with less homework activity and more symptoms in children. Conclusions: The family and home are important settings for the development of children's health. We found eight parental activities together with their children that promoted the children's health. Parents' working time and their time pressure experiences affected their activities with their children. There is a need for an increased focus on parental activities that are positively associated with children's health.

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Swedish parents’ activities together with their children and children’s health: A study of children aged 2–17 years

Berntsson

Ringsberg

2014

Scand J Public Health

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“…The prevalence of childhood stress and psychosomatic and emotional symptoms (PES) has been increasing in parallel over the last decade, indicating that adverse, stressful circumstances may trigger PES in children [6,9,[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. Moreover, multiple simultaneous or sequential stressors may increase the risk for psychosomatic or emotional problems in a cumulative or additive way [13,[18][19][20][22][23][24][25].…”

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Prevalence of psychosomatic and emotional symptoms in European school-aged children and its relationship with childhood adversities: results from the IDEFICS study

Vanaelst

Vriendt

Ahrens

et al. 2012

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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The prevalence of childhood stress and psychosomatic and emotional symptoms (PES) has increased in parallel, indicating that adverse, stressful circumstances and PES in children might be associated. This study describes the prevalence of PES in European children, aged 4-11 years old, and examines the relationship among PES, negative life events (NLE) and familial or social adversities in the child's life. Parent-reported data on childhood adversities and PES was collected for 4,066 children from 8 European countries, who participated in the follow-up survey of IDEFICS (2009-2010), by means of the 'IDEFICS parental questionnaire'. A modified version of the 'Social Readjustment Rating Scale', the 'KINDL Questionnaire for Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents' and the 'Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire' were incorporated in this questionnaire, as well as questions on socio-demographics, family lifestyle and health of the child. Chi-square analyses were performed to investigate the prevalence of PES among survey centres, age groups and sex of the child. Odds ratios were calculated to examine the childhood adversity exposure between PES groups and logistic regression analyses were conducted to investigate: (a) the contribution of the number and (b) the specific types of experienced adversities on the occurrence of PES. 45.7% of the children experienced at least one PES, with low emotional well-being during the last week being most frequently reported (38.2%). No sex differences were shown for the prevalence of PES (P = 0.282), but prevalence proportions rose with increasing age (P < 0.001). Children with PES were more frequently exposed to childhood adversities compared to children without PES (e.g. 13.3 and 3.9% of peer problems and 25.4 and 17.4% of non-traditional family structure in the PES vs. no PES group, respectively, P < 0.001). An increasing number of adversities (regardless of their nature) was found to gradually amplify the risk for PES (OR = 2.85, 95% CI = 1.98-4.12 for a number of ≥3 NLE), indicating the effect of cumulative stress. Finally, a number of specified adversities were identified as apparent risk factors for the occurrence of PES, such as living in a non-traditional family structure (OR = 1.52, 95% CI = 1.30-1.79) or experiencing peer problems (OR = 3.55, 95% CI = 2.73-4.61). Childhood adversities were significantly related to PES prevalence, both quantitatively (i.e. the number of adversities) and qualitatively (i.e. the type of adversity). This study demonstrates the importance and the impact of the child's family and social context on the occurrence of PES in children younger than 12 years old.

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“…These findings suggest the possibility that psychosomatic symptoms could be prevented by improving lifestyle behaviors. There have been studies focused on individual lifestyle behaviors, such as sleeping hours and bedtimes, and there have also been a number of studies on the relationships between psychosomatic symptoms and life events, social support, and self-efficacy (21,(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)47). Only a few studies, however, have reported on the relationship of overall lifestyles with psychosomatic symptoms among children.…”

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“…There have been a number of studies of the relationships between life events, social support, and psychosomatic symptoms (23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28). Other studies have investigated the association of lifestyle behaviors with psychosomatic symptoms (29)(30)(31)(32)(33).…”

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Lifestyles and Psychosomatic Symptoms among Elementary School Students and Junior High School Students

Isshiki

Morimoto

2004

Environ. Health Prev. Med.

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Objectives: To examine the relationship between lifestyles and psychosomatic symptoms in children, we conducted a self-administered questionnaire survey of elementary school students and junior high school students in Japan.Methods: We designed an original questionnaire to investigate the lifestyles and psychosomatic symptoms of children. In 1997, responses to the questionnaires were elicited from public elementary school fourth grade students (then aged 9-10) and public junior high school seventh grade students (then aged 12-13). The survey was repeated annually for three years as the students advanced through school.Results: For both boys and girls, each cross-sectional analysis revealed a strong relationship between lifestyle behaviors and psychosomatic symptoms. Psychosomatic symptoms scores varied according to daily hours of sleep, eating of breakfast, having strong likes and dislikes of food, bowel habits, and daily hours of television watching. Both boys and girls with "good" lifestyle behaviors evaluated by the HPI (Health Practice Index) showed lower scores for psychosomatic symptoms.Conclusions: These findings show that the lifestyle behaviors of children are significantly associated with psychosomatic symptoms and suggest that poor lifestyle behaviors are likely to increase physical and psychological health risks.

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Psychosocial factors affecting psychosomatic symptoms in Japanese schoolchildren

Cited by 38 publications

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Swedish parents’ activities together with their children and children’s health: A study of children aged 2–17 years

Swedish parents’ activities together with their children and children’s health: A study of children aged 2–17 years

Prevalence of psychosomatic and emotional symptoms in European school-aged children and its relationship with childhood adversities: results from the IDEFICS study

Lifestyles and Psychosomatic Symptoms among Elementary School Students and Junior High School Students

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