Descriptive epidemiology of somatising tendency: Findings from the CUPID Study.

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• dc.contributor.author Vargas-Prada Figueroa, Sergio, 1976-ca
• dc.contributor.author Serra, Consolca
• dc.contributor.author Delclòs i Clanchet, Jordi, 1956-ca
• dc.contributor.author Benavides, Fernando G. (Fernando García)ca
• dc.contributor.author Kogevinas, Manolisca
• dc.contributor.author Vega, E. J.ca
• dc.date.accessioned 2016-06-21T07:16:45Z
• dc.date.available 2016-06-21T07:16:45Z
• dc.date.issued 2016
• dc.description.abstract Somatising tendency, defined as a predisposition to worry about common somatic symptoms, is importantly associated with various aspects of health and health-related behaviour, including musculoskeletal pain and associated disability. To explore its epidemiological characteristics, and how it can be specified most efficiently, we analysed data from an international longitudinal study. A baseline questionnaire, which included questions from the Brief Symptom Inventory about seven common symptoms, was completed by 12,072 participants aged 20-59 from 46 occupational groups in 18 countries (response rate 70%). The seven symptoms were all mutually associated (odds ratios for pairwise associations 3.4 to 9.3), and each contributed to a measure of somatising tendency that exhibited an exposure-response relationship both with multi-site pain (prevalence rate ratios up to six), and also with sickness absence for non-musculoskeletal reasons. In most participants, the level of somatising tendency was little changed when reassessed after a mean interval of 14 months (75% having a change of 0 or 1 in their symptom count), although the specific symptoms reported at follow-up often differed from those at baseline. Somatising tendency was more common in women than men, especially at older ages, and varied markedly across the 46 occupational groups studied, with higher rates in South and Central America. It was weakly associated with smoking, but not with level of education. Our study supports the use of questions from the Brief Symptom Inventory as a method for measuring somatising tendency, and suggests that in adults of working age, it is a fairly stable trait.ca
• dc.description.sponsorship Monash University funded data collection in Australia through its grant schemes; National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia) supported HLK and DMU through fellowships; the Ministry of Higher Education in Malaysia supported VCWH in Australia; and the Health Research Council of New Zealand funded data collection in New Zealand. Data collection in Central America and Colombia was supported by the Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Texas Health Science Center research training grant from the NIH Fogarty International Center
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• dc.identifier.citation Vargas-Prada S, Coggon D, Ntani G, Walker-Bone K, Palmer KT, Felli VE. et al. Descriptive epidemiology of somatising tendency: Findings from the CUPID Study. PLoS One. 2016 Apr 29;11(4):e0153748. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0153748ca
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153748
• dc.identifier.issn 1932-6203
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/26949
• dc.language.iso engca
• dc.publisher Public Library of Scienceca
• dc.relation.ispartof PLoS One. 2016 Apr 29;11(4):e0153748
• dc.rights c) This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ public domain dedication.ca
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• dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ca
• dc.subject.other Somatitzacióca
• dc.subject.other Percepció del dolorca
• dc.subject.other Salut en el treball -- Enquestesca
• dc.title Descriptive epidemiology of somatising tendency: Findings from the CUPID Study.ca
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