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T1  - The association of psychological factors and healthcare use with the discrepancy between subjective and objective respiratory-health complaints in the general population 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/309282 
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A1  - Selinheimo, Sanna; Vasankari, Tuula; Jokela, Markus; Kanervisto, Merja; Pirkola, Sami; Suvisaari, Jaana; Paunio, Tiina 
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Y1  - 2019 
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AB  - Background. We examined the prevalence of self-perceived respiratory symptoms (SRS) in the absence of any objective findings of respiratory pathology, and the association of such prevalence with psychological factors and healthcare use in the general population. Methods. The study was conducted among a nationally representative sample of Finnish adults (BRIF8901). Respiratory functioning was measured by a spirometry test. Structured questionnaires were used to measure SRS, physician visits and p... 
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KW  - Alexithymia; health anxiety; healthcare use; illness perception; population-based study; respiratory symptoms; sense of coherence; subjective health complaints; MEDICALLY UNEXPLAINED SYMPTOMS; TORONTO-ALEXITHYMIA-SCALE; OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY-DISEASE; PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS; SOMATIC SYMPTOMS; COHERENCE SCALE; SOMATIZATION DISORDER; ILLNESS PERCEPTIONS; FREQUENT ATTENDERS; ANTONOVSKYS SENSE; 515 Psychology; 3124 Neurology and psychiatry 
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