Somatic Symptoms in the German General Population from 1975 to 2013
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- Abstract
- <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The study determines how burden and patterns of somatic symptom reporting developed over almost four decades in the general German population. Additionally, we studied how socio-demographic factors affected the degree of somatic symptoms. Population-based samples representative for West Germany between 18 and 60 years of age were analyzed comparing three cross-sectional samples of 1975 (<jats:italic>N</jats:italic> = 1601), 1994 (<jats:italic>N</jats:italic> = 1416), and 2013 (<jats:italic>N</jats:italic> = 1290) by conducting a three-way analysis of variance (sex, age, survey). The prevalence rates for somatic symptoms in men and women were lower in the more recent surveys; this affected women most strongly. Exhaustion and musculoskeletal complaints remained leading symptoms (affecting 25%, resp. 11% of the men and 30%, resp. 19% of the women). There was a slight increase in women’s prevalence of exhaustion from 1994 (15%) to 2013 (19%). As determined by stepwise multiple regression, somatic symptoms were consistently associated with female sex and higher age. In the 2013 survey, education became an additional negative predictor of somatic symptom load, while the impact of age and sex on somatic symptoms reporting decreased. Somatic symptoms remain a major burden in the general population. Findings are interpreted with regard to improved living and health care conditions, different cohort experiences, and more public health information.</jats:p>
- Autoren
- Manfred E Beutel
- Eva M Klein
- Michaela Henning
- Antonia M Werner
- Juliane Burghardt
- Ana Nanette Tibubos
- Gabriele Schmutzer
- Elmar Brähler
- DOI
- 10.1038/s41598-020-58602-6
- eISSN
- 2045-2322
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 1
- Zeitschrift
- Scientific Reports
- Sprache
- en
- Artikelnummer
- 1595
- Online publication date
- 2020
- Status
- Published online
- Herausgeber
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Herausgeber URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-58602-6
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2022
- Titel
- Somatic Symptoms in the German General Population from 1975 to 2013
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 10
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- CC-BY
- Autoren
- Manfred E Beutel
- Eva M Klein
- Michaela Henning
- Antonia M Werner
- Juliane Burghardt
- Ana Nanette Tibubos
- Gabriele Schmutzer
- Elmar Brähler
- Hosting institution
- Universitätsbibliothek Mainz
- Sammlungen
- JGU-Publikationen
- Resource version
- Published version
- DOI
- 10.1038/s41598-020-58602-6
- Funding acknowledgements
- DFG, Open Access-Publizieren Universität Mainz / Universitätsmedizin Mainz
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- Open access
- true
- ISSN
- 2045-2322
- Zeitschrift
- Scientific reports
- Schlüsselwörter
- 610 Medizin
- 610 Medical sciences
- Sprache
- eng
- Open access status
- Open Access
- Paginierung
- Art. 1595
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2020
- Public URL
- https://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/5225
- Herausgeber
- Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature
- Herausgeber URL
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-58602-6
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2020
- Datum, an dem der Datensatz öffentlich gemacht wurde
- 2020
- Zugang
- Public
- Titel
- Somatic symptoms in the German general population from 1975 to 2013
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 10
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