Objective: The objective of this study was to explore the course and the predictors of clinically significant medically unexplained pain symptoms (MUS-pain) within the 6 months preceding the interviews at baseline and on follow-up in the general population. Methods: A Norwegian general population study of 605 persons interviewed with the Composite International Diagnostic Interview Somatoform Section was conducted in 1989/1990 (baseline), and 421 persons (69.6% response rate; 242 women and 179 men) were reinterviewed in 2000/2001 (follow-up). Cases of recent MUS-pain compared with those at baseline were assessed on follow-up. Four blockwise logistic regression analyses were undertaken to find predictors (such as stressful life events, living alone, depression and anxiety, and physical morbidity) for recent MUS-pain in 2001. Results: A small "stable" group of recent MUS-pain sufferers (8% of all reinterviewed and 33.6% of those with recent MUS-pain at baseline) was evident. In this group almost all were women. In addition to female gender being a significant (P
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Leiknes, K. A., Finset, A., Moum, T., & Sandanger, I. (2007). Course and predictors of medically unexplained pain symptoms in the general population. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 62(2), 119–128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2006.08.009
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