The Relationship of Personality Variables and Patient Recruitment to Pain Coping Strategies and Psychological Distress in Tension Headache Patients

Spinhoven, Philip; Jochems, P. A.; Linssen, A. C. G.; Bogaards, M.

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“…This was especially true for mental symptoms of sadness, nervousness and worry, tiredness, sense of powerlessness and passivity, indicating that these symptoms are forming a depressive syndrome, also referred to as a tendency for psychological vulnerability which in turn has been shown to be associated with somatic complaints (Spinhoven et al, 1991;Vassend, 1987;. Thus, a possible role of personality factors, such as hypochondria and somatization (Barsky et al, 1992), neuroticism (Costa & McCrae, 1985), negative affectivity (Watson & Pennebaker, 1989) and optimism (Scheier & Carver, 1987;Pulkkinen et al, 1998), contributing to these inter-correlations, cannot be excluded.…”

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Self- and physician-rated general health in relation to symptoms and diseases among women

Mellner

Lundberg

2003

Psychology, Health & Medicine

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Self-rated general health has been demonstrated as an important predictor of future morbidity and mortality, but the determinants of perceived good or poor general health are less clear. The aim of the present study was to investigate self-and physician-rated general health status in relation to self-reported symptoms and diseases (n = 488) as well as to physician-reported health problems based on medical examinations (n = 369) among 43-year-old women representing the general population of a Swedish community. Although most women had good general health as reflected by their own as well as by the physicians' ratings, the physicians rated about twice as many women (12%) to have poor health compared to the women themselves (6%). The agreement between the womens' self-reported general health and the physicians' ratings was significant but low (22%). Bivariate correlations showed that many of the symptoms and diseases in the present sample were significantly associated with both self-and physician-rated general health, but the explained variance was low, varying from 1 to 12%. The exception was for a self-reported sense of powerlessness that explained 20% of the variance in self-rated general health. When taken together and analysed by multivariate logistic regression, it was found that only self-reported symptoms predicted the self-rated general health of the women, contributing to 24% of the variance (p 5 0.001). In contrast, both physician-reports of health problems (11%) and self-reports of symptoms (13%), respectively, significantly predicted the physician-rated general health of the women, together contributing to 24% of the variance (p 5 0.001). Self-reported diseases did not predict either the self-rated or the physicianrated general health of the women. The findings from the present study support the notion that general health status, when rated by a physician or by the woman herself, is a complex and multidimensional concept that is only partly predicted by symptoms and conditions. Thus, future studies should focus on additional tentative factors in determining self-rated health, as well as on how evaluations of health are communicated to, and interpreted by physicians.

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Self- and physician-rated general health in relation to symptoms and diseases among women

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Lundberg

2003

Psychology, Health & Medicine

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“…Ficek and Wittrock found that subjects with recurrent TTH presented higher levels of depression and trait anxiety, but no different pain‐coping strategy (compared with healthy controls) 10 . As far as CTTH is concerned, Spinhoven and coworkers reported that higher perceived control of pain was associated with a lower level of pain intensity and that feelings of helplessness were more prominent in patients with CTTH 11 . In addition, patients with CTTH who reported shorter daily pain periods indicated a lower level of active coping with pain 11 …”

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Coping Strategies in Episodic and Chronic Tension‐type Headache

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“…In this way, somatic complaints could serve as manifestations of the increased stress put upon adolescents, which is supported by the higher frequency of symptoms reported at this time of development. Moreover, as there was individual stability in symptom reporting for nearly 30 years, indicators of distress in terms of sadness could also represent a more general vulnerability to stress, which in turn could be regarded as a tendency for psychological vulnerability that has been associated with somatic complaints (Vassend, 1987;1989;Spinhoven, Jochems, Linssen and Bogaards, 1991). Another possible explanation might be that the females presenting with a high symptom load over time might have certain personality characteristics known to be related with self-reported symptoms such as hypochondria and somatization (Barsky, Cleary and Klerman, 1992), neuroticism (Costa and McCrae, 1985) and negative affectivity (Watson and Pennebaker, 1989).…”

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Symptom development and timing of menarche: a longitudinal study

El-Khouri

Mellner

2004

Int J Methods Psych Res

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Self-reported somatic complaints among females were studied cross sectionally at age 15 and 43, an longitudinally between these two ages. Specifically, the relationship between symptom development and timing of menarche was considered. The sample consisted of 477 females representing the general Swedish population. All the included symptoms were significantly related to each other at both ages. There was also longitudinal correlational stability for all the studied symptoms. Moreover, symptoms at age 15 were associated with early menarcheal timing. Pattern analyses of the studied symptoms were conducted with roots in person-oriented methodology. These results revealed structural as well as individual stability in patterns of symptom reporting for nearly 30 years. That is, similar configurations of symptoms were found at both ages, and it was the same females who reported being either symptom free or reporting a high symptom load at both ages. At age 15 fewer early maturing females than expected by chance reported being symptom free, whereas more of the late maturing females than expected reported being symptom free. However, there were no effects of menarcheal timing on symptom reporting at age 43.

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The Relationship of Personality Variables and Patient Recruitment to Pain Coping Strategies and Psychological Distress in Tension Headache Patients

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Self- and physician-rated general health in relation to symptoms and diseases among women

Self- and physician-rated general health in relation to symptoms and diseases among women

Coping Strategies in Episodic and Chronic Tension‐type Headache

Symptom development and timing of menarche: a longitudinal study

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