The Correlation of Symptoms and Signs with Stress.
- Author:
Sung Hee LEE
;
Bong Yul HUH
;
Jin Woong DOO
;
Jin Ha KIM
- Publication Type:Original Article
- MeSH:
Anxiety;
Depression;
Diagnosis;
Dizziness;
Exercise Test;
Fatigue;
Female;
Headache;
Humans;
Logistic Models;
Male;
Menopause;
Primary Health Care;
Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders;
Surveys and Questionnaires
- From:Journal of the Korean Academy of Family Medicine
1997;18(8):802-813
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
BACKGROUND: The patients visiting the primary care complain of the various symptoms. This symptoms may induce the stress or the reverse. In fact the stress can influence the symptoms and signs. So this study was done for the correlation of the symptoms and signs with stress. METHODS: This study was done about the patients visiting the family medicine department of the one university hospital. We collected the all items that can find in the charts for examining the symptoms and signs, and did the requests pater the patients wrote by themselves. The stress test was Psychosocial well being index to be constructed from the General Health Questionnaire. We tested the study by t-test, anova, chi-square, linear logistic regression. RESULTS: The total study numbers were 351. The stress cut-off point was 63 score. The stress group was consisted of 15 males and 43 females. The meaningful symptoms were headache, dizziness, fatigue, weakness, insomnia, anxiety or depression. The meaningful diagnoses were anxiety or depression, tension headache(p<0.05). The meaningful sociodemographic factors were female, housewife or unemployed, menopause, monthly income below 200 ten thousands won. CONCLUSIONS: It was found that the some symptoms and signs were statistically correlated with stress.
