Fig. 5

Physical symptom load during the Covid-19 pandemic. Associations (reported as adjusted median values with 95% confidence intervals) between physical symptom load and sex, age, education, and physical disease during the Covid-19 pandemic. Physical symptom load was measured with the somatization subscale from the 90-item Symptom Check List [27]. Education: long= > 4 years, medium = 3–4 years, short = < 3 years, no = 0 years