Title |
Psychosomatic problems and countermeasures in Japanese children and adolescents
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Published in |
BioPsychoSocial Medicine, March 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1751-0759-6-6 |
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Authors |
Hidetaka Tanaka, Shigenori Terashima, Magnus P Borres, Olav Thulesius |
Abstract |
In Japan there are a number of children and adolescents with emotion-related disorders including psychosomatic diseases (orthostatic dysregulation, anorexia nervosa, recurrent pains), behavior problems and school absenteeism. According to our previous report, the Japanese children had significantly higher score of physical symptoms and psychiatric complaints than did the Swedish children, and these were more strongly influenced by school-related stress than by home-related stress. To enforce countermeasures for psychosomatic problems in children, the Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Pediatrics (established in 1982) have started several new projects including multi-center psychosomatic researches and society-based activities. In this article, we present an outline of our study on mental health in Japanese children in comparison with Swedish children. Countermeasures including clinical guidelines for child psychosomatic diseases are reviewed and discussed. |
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