Subjective health complaint indexes | Girls (%) | Boys (%) | P-value | ||||
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Never/ seldom | Sometimes | Fairly often/very often | Never/ seldom | Sometimes | Fairly often/very often | ||
Psychosomatic symptoms variables ª | |||||||
More tired than before | 25.1 | 36.1 | 38.8 | 47.7 | 31.9 | 20.3 | 0.000 |
Sadness | 28.9 | 36.1 | 35.0 | 67.8 | 24.1 | 8.2 | 0.000 |
Acid stomach, stomach ache | 60.2 | 25.0 | 14.8 | 86.2 | 10.9 | 3.0 | 0.000 |
Pain and aches in heart and chest | 73.6 | 16.2 | 10.1 | 80.6 | 13.4 | 5.9 | 0.019 |
Palpitations and extra heart beats | 79.9 | 13.7 | 6.4 | 87.6 | 8.7 | 3.7 | 0.000 |
Headache and upper respiratory infection symptoms variables ª | |||||||
Headache | 34.2 | 32.6 | 33.2 | 61.4 | 27.5 | 11.1 | 0.000 |
Cold symptoms | 38.3 | 36.5 | 25.2 | 58.9 | 27.7 | 13.4 | 0.000 |
Cough and hoarseness | 61.9 | 26.5 | 11.6 | 75.5 | 18.6 | 5.9 | 0.000 |
Nausea | 58.3 | 26.2 | 15.6 | 86.8 | 10.4 | 2.7 | 0.000 |
Musculoskeletal pain symptoms variablesª | |||||||
Neck and shoulder pain | 40.1 | 25.4 | 34.5 | 67.5 | 21.4 | 10.9 | 0.000 |
Low back pain | 52.3 | 23.5 | 24.2 | 68.2 | 16.8 | 15.0 | 0.000 |
Pain in extremity joints | 65.0 | 22.3 | 12.7 | 71.5 | 18.6 | 9.9 | 0.079 |
Muscle pain | 64.4 | 25.6 | 10.0 | 71.0 | 20.5 | 8.4 | 0.05 |
General self-rated health b | |||||||
Overall good health | 79.5 | 87.8 | 0.000 | ||||
Medication b | |||||||
Antidepressants or sedatives (yes) | 4.7 | 3.5 | 0.3 | ||||
Non-prescription painkillers, every week | 17.9 | 7.2 | 0.000 |