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SUBMITTER: Beutel ME
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6994459 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Beutel Manfred E ME Klein Eva M EM Henning Michaela M Werner Antonia M AM Burghardt Juliane J Tibubos Ana Nanette AN Schmutzer Gabriele G Brähler Elmar E
Scientific reports 20200131 1
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, surv ...[more]