Association of personal, behavioral and positive psychological variables with somatization and number of diseases in Mexican general population: the influence of gender

Brambila-Tapia, Aniel Jessica Leticia; Saldaña-Cruz, Ana Miriam; Meléndez-Monreal, Karen Carolina; Esparza-Guerrero, Yussef; Martínez-Hernández, Alejandra; Rosales-Torres, Brenda Guadalupe; Ríos-González, Blanca Estela

doi:10.1080/13548506.2021.1985150

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“…As previously shown, a positive moderate correlation was found between somatization and number of diseases in both sexes [ 2 ]. This suggests that somatization is also a consequence of disease presence.…”

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“…As previously shown, negative psychological variables, somatization and number of diseases reached higher levels in women than in men [ 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ]. We also detected that sleep quality was lower in women than in men, which can be related to the increased frequency of the negative psychological variables in this sex, considering that sleep quality is negatively correlated with anxiety, stress and depression [ 2 , 7 ]. Interestingly, the most frequent diseases in both sexes were anxiety and depression problems that required medication (58% and 33% in women, and 38% and 26% in men), which were more frequent in women than in men.…”

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confidence: 72%

“…Somatization, described as the “tendency to experience and communicate somatic stress and to seek medical help for it” [ 1 ], has been associated with a variety of positive and negative psychological factors, with different tendencies in women compared to men [ 2 ] and with more of these psychological and sociodemographic factors associated in women, in whom somatization is also present at higher levels in comparison with men [ 2 , 3 , 4 ]. In addition, we found that the number of diseases has been significantly associated with somatization in previous reports in both genders [ 2 , 5 ].…”

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“…The number of diseases is also increased in women when compared with men [ 2 , 6 ], which suggests that the increased number of negative psychological factors in women [ 7 , 8 ] could be related to the higher frequencies of somatization and number of diseases in this sex [ 2 ]. However, among the factors studied in association with somatization and number of diseases, no reports were found in relation to stress-coping strategies, which are defined as an individual’s attempts to use cognitive and behavioral strategies to manage and regulate pressures, demands and emotions in response to stress [ 9 ].…”

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Somatization and number of diseases are interrelated variables, whose association with stress-coping strategies, according to sex, has not been investigated. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate such association in a sample of the Mexican general population. The general population was invited to answer an electronic questionnaire via the social networks—e-mail, WhatsApp and Facebook—by the research team. A sample of 1008 adults was obtained, of which 62.2% were women, in whom we detected higher levels of negative psychological variables, somatization and number of diseases and lower levels of sleep quality. Positive moderate correlations were found between depression, anxiety and stress on one hand and somatization and number of diseases on the other, and negative moderate correlations were found between sleep quality and the two dependent variables. As for the coping strategies, self-blame, behavioral disengagement, denial, self-distraction and substance use were positively correlated with somatization. Of these, self-blame, substance use, and self-distraction also showed a positive correlation with number of diseases in both sexes. Negative correlations were detected for active coping and the two dependent variables in men and for religion and planning and somatization in women. In conclusion, the coping strategies showed significant correlations with somatization and number of diseases in both sexes.

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Association of positive psychological variables with disease activity, functional disability and erythrocyte sedimentation rate in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a preliminary study

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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease which has shown positive correlations between negative psychological variables and disease activity in transversal studies and in the follow-up. However, the association of positive psychological variables with disease parameters including disease activity (DAS-28), functional disability (HAQ) and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) has not been investigated. Patients with RA attending the external consultation of a third level hospital were invited to participate and fill in a questionnaire with personal, disease and psychological variables; body mass index was also obtained as well as ESR. A total of 49 patients were included. The three dependent variables correlated among them, with the highest correlation for DAS-28 and HAQ (r=0.645, p<0.01), followed by somatization and HAQ (r=0.614, p<0.01) or DAS-28 (r=0.537, P<0.01). In addition, HAQ showed negative correlations with environmental mastery (r=- 0.366, p<0.01), personal growth (r=-0.292, p<0.05) and monthly extra money (r=-0.328, p<0.05), and borderline negative correlations with emotion perception (r=-0.279, p=0.053) and self-acceptance (r=-0.250, p=0.08). ESR showed a significant negative correlation with emotion perception (r=-0.475, p<0.01). In conclusion, we observed important correlations of positive psychological variables with disease activity, functional disability and ESR that could be addressed in order to prevent or treat these disease features.

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Association of personal, behavioral and positive psychological variables with somatization and number of diseases in Mexican general population: the influence of gender

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Association of Depression, Anxiety, Stress and Stress-Coping Strategies with Somatization and Number of Diseases According to Sex in the Mexican General Population

Association of Depression, Anxiety, Stress and Stress-Coping Strategies with Somatization and Number of Diseases According to Sex in the Mexican General Population

The emotion regulation process in somatic symptom disorders and related conditions - A systematic narrative review

Association of positive psychological variables with disease activity, functional disability and erythrocyte sedimentation rate in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a preliminary study

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