OBJECTIVES Caregivers of patients with various diseases frequently report sleep disturbances and depressive symptoms. Care intensity for individuals with Parkinson's disease is mainly influenced by the severity of their motor impairment. The latter is associated with sleep fragmentation, nocturnal pain and cramps. These disease-specific characteristics contribute to sleep-related problems in pa...

PURPOSE This cross-sectional study was undertaken to examine the contributing factors related to juvenile delinquency, as well as to identify the effect of psychosomatic symptoms, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and coping strategies on delinquent behavior among Korean adolescents. METHODS To investigate the research problem, 2,146 adolescents, including 1,350 student adolescents and 796 delinq...

This issue marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of Psychosomatic Medicine. It is also the inaugural issue for adding, Journal of Biobehavioral Medicine as our new subtitle. Why, after 70 years of successful publication, does our journal now have a subtitle? Why was this particular subtitle chosen? And what does this change mean for the future of the journal? In their introductory editoria...

AIMS To present the available empirical evidence for the assumed position of the concept of work related fatigue as: (1) short term effect of the working day; and (2) an intermediate variable between work demands and the development of subjective health complaints and sickness absence. METHODS Results from six single occupation studies, conducted between 1996 and 2002, are presented. Work dem...

Alexithymia is a tendency to experience psychological distress in the form of somatic symptoms. Alexithymia is a syndrome that is defined by the inability to recognize and express emotions. It is a common feature in patients with psychoactive abuse disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, and psychosomatic disorders such as gastrointestinal complaints, migraine, dermatological symptoms, and i...

When evaluating environmental risk and its perception, psychosocial and psychosomatic factors may be of fundamental importance for public health programming and the promotion of quality of life. This is the case in particular where knowledge of the true health consequences of environmental exposure to given risk factors are incomplete or its action is within the range of values where we do not ...

BACKGROUND Some patients may have psychosomatic complaints due to their previous experiences during the drug hypersensitivity reaction. Worry about being hurt due to an administered drug is termed nocebo effect, which is the opposite of the placebo effect. In our study, we investigated the effect of distraction on symptoms during drug provocation test. METHODS Our study included 112 patients ...