Chest pain in adolescents
| Autor: | Gail Goodman Kaden, Norman Gootman, I. Ronald Shenker |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Chest Pain Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Heart Diseases Heart disease Psychology Adolescent Prevalence Disease Chest pain Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans Child Cardiac problems Health professionals business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Physical therapy Etiology Female Pain catastrophizing medicine.symptom business Attitude to Health |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Adolescent Health. 12:251-255 |
| ISSN: | 1054-139X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0197-0070(91)90019-i |
| Popis: | Adolescents with chest pain were compared with healthy adolescents to determine if they were more likely to believe they had cardiac disease and were less healthy than their peers. Perceptions were examined with a questionnaire and results analyzed by x 2 analysis. Twenty-two percent of adolescents with chest pain were diagnosed with cardiac problems, a prevalence rate higher than previous reports. While knowledge of possible etiologies of chest pain was similar for both patient and control groups, 68% of those with the symptom associated their own pain with heart disease and 44% altered their behavior because of it. Health professionals should avoid inadvertent reinforcement of the patient's fear of heart disease, particularly because subsequent unnecessary self-restrictions can result in an age group in which the symptom most often represents a noncardiac etiology. |
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