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Psichologinių ir šeimos charakteristikų ryšys su paauglių psichosomatiniais skausmais / Connections between psychological, family characteristics and psychosomatic pains of adolescents

To study the differences in levels of alexithymia, depresion, anxiety and socioeconomic status between a sample of adolescents diagnosed with ICD-10 Persistent Somatoform Pain Disorder N=120 and healthy adolescents controls N=240, and further to survey the method of family conflicts resolution in the somatizing adolescents.Using the Toronto alexithymia scale and Hospital anxiety and Depresion scale and questionary to the subjects and their parents to assess each family's SES and method of conflict resolution. The rate of alexithymia in somatizing adolescents was 69,2percent, which was significantly higher than inhealthy controls(22,9percent, p<o.001). Similarly the rate of anxiety was significantly higher in the somatizers(61,6percent) versus controls(23,3percent, p<0.0010.The method of conflict resolution in the families of somatizing adolescents was more often by quarreling or fighting(6,7percent), silence or not solving the problem at all(44,1percent), and rarely by discussion(17,6percent).

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20051116_212131-22986
Date16 November 2005
CreatorsGrigaliūnienė, Viktorija
ContributorsBojarskas, Jurgis, Grabauskas, Vilius, Zaborskis, Apolinaras, Gurevičius, Romualdas, Petrauskienė, Jadvyga, Milašauskienė, Žemyna, Žukauskas, Gediminas, Mačiulis, Valentinas, Kaunas University of Medicine
PublisherLithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Kaunas University of Medicine
Source SetsLithuanian ETD submission system
LanguageLithuanian
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeDoctoral thesis
Formatapplication/pdf
Sourcehttp://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20051116_212131-22986
RightsUnrestricted

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