High Perceived Stress and Low Self-Efficacy are Associated with Functional Somatic Disorders: The DanFunD Study.

Marie Weinreich Petersen Tina Birgitte Wisbech CarstensenLisbeth FrostholmKaare Bro WellnitzEva ØrnbølTorben Jørgensen Lene Falgaard Eplov Thomas Meinertz Dantoft Per Fink

Published in: Clinical epidemiology (2023)

FSD were positively associated with perceived stress and negatively associated with self-efficacy. Our study may point to stress being part of the symptomatology of FSD. This underlines the severity of having FSD and stresses the relevance of the resilience theory in the understanding of the condition.

Keyphrases

social support
depressive symptoms
physical activity
climate change
gene expression
heat stress