J Korean Acad Fam Med.  1997 Aug;18(8):802-813.

The Correlation of Symptoms and Signs with Stress

• Lee SH
• Huh BY
• Doo JW
• Kim JH

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The patients visiting the primary care complain of the various symptoms. This symptoms may induce the stress or the reverse. In fact the stress can influence the symptoms and signs. So this study was done for the correlation of the symptoms and signs with stress.
METHODS
This study was done about the patients visiting the family medicine department of the one university hospital. We collected the all items that can find in the charts for examining the symptoms and signs, and did the requests pater the patients wrote by themselves. The stress test was Psychosocial well being index to be constructed from the General Health Questionnaire. We tested the study by t-test, anova, chi-square, linear logistic regression.
RESULTS
The total study numbers were 351. The stress cut-off point was 63 score. The stress group was consisted of 15 males and 43 females. The meaningful symptoms were headache, dizziness, fatigue, weakness, insomnia, anxiety or depression. The meaningful diagnoses were anxiety or depression, tension headache(p<0.05). The meaningful sociodemographic factors were female, housewife or unemployed, menopause, monthly income below 200 ten thousands won.
CONCLUSIONS
It was found that the some symptoms and signs were statistically correlated with stress.

MeSH Terms

Anxiety
Depression
Diagnosis
Dizziness
Exercise Test
Fatigue
Female
Headache
Humans
Logistic Models
Male
Menopause
Primary Health Care
Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders
Surveys and Questionnaires