Universität zu Köln

Beutel, Manfred E., Klein, Eva M., Henning, Michaela, Werner, Antonia M., Burghardt, Juliane ORCID: 0000-0003-0690-0731, Tibubos, Ana Nanette, Schmutzer, Gabriele and Braehler, Elmar ORCID: 0000-0002-2648-2728 (2020). Somatic Symptoms in the German General Population from 1975 to 2013. Sci Rep, 10 (1). LONDON: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP. ISSN 2045-2322

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Abstract

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 (N = 1601), 1994 (N = 1416), and 2013 (N = 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.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Beutel, Manfred E. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Klein, Eva M. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Henning, Michaela UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Werner, Antonia M. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Burghardt, Juliane UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-0690-0731 UNSPECIFIED Tibubos, Ana Nanette UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Schmutzer, Gabriele UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Braehler, Elmar UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-2648-2728 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-347883
DOI:	10.1038/s41598-020-58602-6
Journal or Publication Title:	Sci Rep
Volume:	10
Number:	1
Date:	2020
Publisher:	NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
Place of Publication:	LONDON
ISSN:	2045-2322
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language HEALTH; SOMATIZATION; INSOMNIA; ANXIETY; BURDEN; TIME Multiple languages Multidisciplinary Sciences Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/34788