Author, as appears in the article.: Torrubia-Perez, Elisabet; Reverte-Villarroya, Silvia; Fernandez-Saez, Jose; Martorell-Poveda, Maria-Antonia;
Department: Infermeria
URV's Author/s: Martorell Poveda, Maria Antonia / REVERTÉ REVERTÉ, SANDRA / Reverté Villarroya, Silvia / Torrubia Pérez, Elisabet
Keywords: Sex Psychosomatic disorders Prevalence Mental-health Mental health Gender Biopsychosocial Age
Abstract: Psychosomatic disorders can develop unevenly depending on certain health determinants; therefore, the aim of this study was to analyze the prevalence of psychosomatic disorders and the differences by age and sex in a rural area. We conducted an observational descriptive retrospective population study to determine the prevalence of 201 diagnoses of psychosomatic nature grouped into 25 diagnostic categories by sex and age groups. A total of 33,680 participants with a diagnosis of psychosomatic disorder were identified (64.6% women, 35.4% men). We found statistically significant differences based on sex in 13 of the 25 diagnostic categories previously defined. When we analyzed these categories by age, we found that women showed a higher probability, between 1.23 and 10.85 times, of suffering from most of these health issues. We also observed that the older the age group, the most often they had a diagnosis. Notably, more women seem to suffer from psychosomatic disorders when compared to men in the same situation. In most of these disorders, being of the female sex was a risk factor, and the older the participants, the greater the probability of developing a disorder.
Thematic Areas: Science and technology studies Medicine, general & internal Medicine (miscellaneous) Health care sciences & services
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: elisabet.torrubia@urv.cat silvia.reverte@urv.cat elisabet.torrubia@urv.cat mariaantonia.martorell@urv.cat mariaantonia.martorell@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0003-4230-606X 0000-0002-2052-9978 0000-0003-4230-606X 0000-0002-0309-1812 0000-0002-0309-1812
Record's date: 2024-09-28
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4426/12/10/1730
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: J Pers Med. 12 (10):
APA: Torrubia-Perez, Elisabet; Reverte-Villarroya, Silvia; Fernandez-Saez, Jose; Martorell-Poveda, Maria-Antonia; (2022). Analysis of Psychosomatic Disorders According to Age and Sex in a Rural Area: A Population-Based Study. J Pers Med, 12(10), -. DOI: 10.3390/jpm12101730
Article's DOI: 10.3390/jpm12101730
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2022
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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