Gender differences in physical symptoms and illness behavior

Wijk, C.M.T. Gijsbers van; Huisman, Holger; Kolk, Annemarie M.

doi:10.1016/s0277-9536(99)00196-3

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“…This is in accordance with the one previous study dealing with this issue (Malatesta & Culver, 1993) and more generally with the observation that psychological variables are more strongly related to health in women than in men (Denton et al, 2004;Williams & Barry, 2003). The affective dimension of health explained the association between ambiguity and disease activity, in agreement with the suggestion that affective functioning more strongly influences women's self-assessment of symptoms than men's (Gijsbers van Wijk et al, 1999). These findings may imply that in women emotion regulation has a stronger influence on affective state, that emotion regulation styles of women are more dependent on their affective state, or that other variables such as differences in self-report or hormonal differences affect both emotion regulation and affective state differently for women and men.…”

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“…Instead of treating gender as a covariate that is controlled for in analyses, gender is also a topic of interest in itself (Bekker, 2003;Moerman & Van MensVerhulst, 2004). Men and women differ with respect to the prevalence of diseases such as cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases, the sensory perception of pain, symptom report, illness behaviour, health care use, and treatment response (Gijsbers van Wijk et al, 1999;Keogh et al, 2005;Pinn, 2003). A gender bias in health care has been reported, showing that differences in diagnosis and treatment occur based on the gender of the patient (Hoffmann & Tarzian, 2001;Meeuwesen et al, 2002;Robinson et al, 2001).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Gender Differences in Emotion Regulation and Relationships with Perceived Health in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

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ABSTRACT. Emotion regulation has been associated with perceived health in rheumatoid arthritis, which is diagnosed three times more often in women than men. Our aim was to examine gender differences in styles of emotion regulation (ambiguity, control, orientation, and expression) and gender-specificity of the associations between emotion regulation and perceived health (psychological well-being, social functioning, physical functioning, and disease activity) in 244 female and 91 male patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Women reported more emotional orientation than men, but did not differ from men with regard to ambiguity, control, and expression. Structural equation modelling showed that relationships between emotion regulation and perceived health were more frequent and stronger for women than men. This held especially for the affective dimension of health, while associations were similar for both women and men with regard to social and physical functioning. Only for women, the association between ambiguity and disease activity was significant, which appeared to be mediated by affective functioning. The observations that women are more emotionally oriented than men and that emotion regulation is more interwoven with psychological health in women than men, support the usefulness of a gender-sensitive approach in research and health care of patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

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Gender Differences in Emotion Regulation and Relationships with Perceived Health in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

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“…In addition to men's higher tolerance of symptoms, men may be forced to ignore physical discomfort; men are also less willing or less able to look for adequate medical treatment for their perceived symptoms and are less inclined to limit their physical activity when they feel ill [28][29][30][31] . However, Ferry et al [17] did not find any gender difference between females and males; most probably their results biased toward the more severe symptoms in addition to a higher number of employed participants.…”

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Prevalence of Common Types of Compression Neuropathies in Qena Governorate/Egypt: A Population-Based Survey

Khedr

Fawi²,

Abbas³

et al. 2016

Neuroepidemiology

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Background: No epidemiological studies on the prevalence of compressive neuropathy have been undertaken in Arab countries. The aim of the study was to estimate the prevalence of the most common types of compressive neuropathies in Qena governorate/Egypt. Methods: The study was part of a community-based survey carried out to assess the prevalence of neuromuscular disorders among the Qena population. A random sampling of 10 districts, 5,039 inhabitants aged ≥20. There were 3,050 urban residents (60.5%) and 1,989 (39.5%) from the rural community. Patients were diagnosed using a screening questionnaire for diagnosis of entrapment neuropathies. Positive cases were referred to the Qena University Hospital. They were given full clinical, electrophysiological and laboratory investigations. Results: Compressive neuropathy was recorded in 165 cases giving a CPR = 3.3% of population at risk (≥20 years). Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) was diagnosed in 155 cases giving a CPR = 3.1% with a significantly higher prevalence among females than males (5.3 vs. 0.9%) and in rural compared with urban populations (4.6 vs. 2.1%). Ulnar neuropathy at the elbow was the second common type of entrapment with a CPR = 0.1% followed by radial nerve palsy, tarsal tunnel syndrome and common peroneal nerve palsy. Conclusion: The overall crude prevalence rate of CTS is comparable with that in other countries.

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“…Second, our sample was confined to women only. Gender-related differences exist in symptom reporting [38], symptom perception processes [39], and stress physiology [40] and should be further investigated. Nevertheless, previous research has shown that MUS are more common in females than in males [41,42].…”

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High symptom reporters are less interoceptively accurate in a symptom-related context

Bogaerts

Millen

Wan

et al. 2008

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

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Gender differences in physical symptoms and illness behavior

Cited by 120 publications

References 29 publications

Gender Differences in Emotion Regulation and Relationships with Perceived Health in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Gender Differences in Emotion Regulation and Relationships with Perceived Health in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Prevalence of Common Types of Compression Neuropathies in Qena Governorate/Egypt: A Population-Based Survey

High symptom reporters are less interoceptively accurate in a symptom-related context

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