Gender differences dominate sleep disorder patients' body problem complaints

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Ted L. Rosenthal¹  Elaine S. Bryant¹  Helio Lemmi¹ 

[1] ,University of Tennessee College of Medicine Memphis

关键词: complaint patterns;    gender differences;    body problems;    nonspecific complaints;    padrão de distribuição de queixas;    diferenças por gênero (sexo);    problemas somáticos;    queixas inespecíficas;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0004-282X1994000400003

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

We studied it age, gender, diagnostic status, and psychiatric features affected 291 consecutive sleep disorder patient's body complaints on a brief checklist. Gender had a strong impact on all four (tested) dependent measures, with women reporting more distress than men. Age produced significant regressions on two measures, with younger patients complaining more than older. Presence of psychiatric features was associated with more complaints on one dependent measure - previously found to reflect internal medicine patients' emotional distress. The results of regression analyses were largely supported by follow-up ANOVAs. However, contrasting insomniac versus hypersomniac versus all other sleep disorder diagnoses did not affect body complaints on any dependent measure. The results caution against combining males and females to compare self-reported distress between sleep disorders.

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