Alexithymia, hypochondriacal beliefs, and psychological distress among frequent attenders in primary health care☆
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2019, Public HealthCitation Excerpt :Further qualitative or mixed-methods research aiming to understand the factors that lead psychologically distressed frequent users to consult primary care or EDs could better explore this mechanism. Four of the five studies on frequent use of primary care took place in countries with widely used public health care27–29,31 (with the exception of the study from Germany, where the majority of primary care is through for-profit, private providers30). The two studies from EDs were from the United States,32,33 where health care is generally privatized.
The association between depression and craving in alcohol dependency is moderated by gender and by alexithymia factors
2016, Psychiatry ResearchCitation Excerpt :This is critical as previous studies showed that alexithymia can have opposite effects when considering men or women. To illustrate, one study showed that higher alexithymia was associated with the frequent use of health care among men, but not among women (Jyvasjarvi et al., 1999). Jula et al. (1999) showed that alexithymia was associated with elevated blood pressure and therefore acted as a risk factor for hypertension but only for men.
Alexithymia in the medically ill. Analysis of 1190 patients in gastroenterology, cardiology, oncology and dermatology
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2011, Psychiatric Clinics of North AmericaCitation Excerpt :Studies of outpatient utilization include number of outpatient visits (over a defined time period ranging from 6 months to 2 years)35–37 and total medication costs.31,33 Cutoffs for the number of visits per year qualifying as high utilization varies between authors, from 7–12.34 Some may argue that this does not account for comorbidities, but a study examining utilization in the chronically medically ill found that while disease/symptom severity and complications do affect utilization, disease duration and comorbidities do not.38
Gender differences in the association between alexithymia and emotional eating in obese individuals
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Supported by grants from the Emil Aaltonen Foundation and the Northern Ostrobothnia Hospital District.