{
  "creator": [
    "Weigel, Angelika",
    "Meinertz Dantoft, Thomas",
    "Jørgensen, Torben",
    "Carstensen, Tina",
    "Löwe, Bernd",
    "Weinman, John",
    "Frostholm, Lisbeth"
  ],
  "date": [
    "2022-12-22"
  ],
  "description": [
    "Background: The present study investigated differences in symptom perceptions between individuals with functional disorders (FD), major health conditions, and FDs + major health conditions, respectively, and a group of healthy individuals. Furthermore, it investigated the relevance of FDs among other health-related and psychological correlates of symptom perceptions in the framework of the Common Sense Model of Self-Regulation (CMS). Method: This cross-sectional study used epidemiological data from the Danish Study of Functional Disorders part two (N = 7,459 participants, 54% female, 51.99 ± 13.4 years). Symptom perceptions were assessed using the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (B-IPQ) and compared between the four health condition groups. Multiple regression analyses were performed to examine associations between symptom perceptions, FDs, and other health-related and psychological correlates from the CMS framework. Results: Individuals with FDs (n = 976) and those with FDs + major health conditions (n = 162) reported less favorable symptom perceptions compared to the other two groups, particularly regarding perceived consequences, timeline, and emotional representations (effect size range Cohen’s d = 0.12-0.66). The presence of a FD was significantly associated with all B-IPQ items, even in the context of 16 other relevant health-related and psychological correlates from the CMS framework, whereas symptom presence last year or last week was not. Conclusion: In the general population, symptom perceptions seem to play a more salient role in FD than in individuals with well-defined physical illness. Symptom perceptions should therefore be targeted in both primary and secondary interventions for FDs."
  ],
  "format": [
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    "text/html",
    "text/xml"
  ],
  "identifier": [
    "https://cpe.psychopen.eu/index.php/cpe/article/view/7739",
    "10.32872/cpe.7739"
  ],
  "language": [
    "eng"
  ],
  "publisher": [
    "PsychOpen GOLD / Leibniz Institut for Psychology (ZPID)"
  ],
  "relation": [
    "https://cpe.psychopen.eu/index.php/cpe/article/view/7739/7739.pdf",
    "https://cpe.psychopen.eu/index.php/cpe/article/view/7739/7739.html",
    "https://cpe.psychopen.eu/index.php/cpe/article/view/7739/7739.xml"
  ],
  "rights": [
    "Copyright (c) 2022 Angelika Weigel, Thomas Meinertz Dantoft, Torben Jørgensen, Tina Carstensen, Bernd Löwe, John Weinman, Lisbeth Frostholm",
    "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
  ],
  "source": [
    "Clinical Psychology in Europe; Vol. 4 No. 4 (2022); 1-23",
    "2625-3410",
    "10.32872/cpe.v4i4"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "symptom perceptions",
    "functional disorders",
    "epidemiological study",
    "quality of life",
    "common-sense model of illness",
    "personality traits"
  ],
  "title": [
    "Symptom Perceptions in Functional Disorders, Major Health Conditions, and Healthy Controls: A General Population Study"
  ],
  "type": [
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/article",
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion"
  ]
}