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| Title | The interaction between sex, gender and persistent somatic symptoms: a scoping review. |
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| Keywords | Gender Persistent somatic symptoms Stigma |
| Researchers |
mw AV (Aranka) Ballering |
| Type of project | Stage Wetenschap / Research project |
| Nature of the research | A scoping literature review, in which literature regarding the interaction between sex, gender and stigmatization of persistent somatic symptoms is systematically collected and synthesized. This type of research can be done from home if necessary. |
| Fields of study | epidemiology psychiatry |
| Background / introduction |
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| Anecdotally it has been stated that women and men experience stigma towards their persistent somatic symptoms (often called medically unexplained symptoms) differently. This may be either due to their sex (ie, biology, such as genes, hormones fysiology that defines whether someone is male and/or female), or due to gender (ie, the psychosocial equivalent of sex, comprising how someone identifies and expresses themselves in relation to their sex, and what society expects of them based on their sex). However, currently, there is no overview of the available evidence regarding the interaction between sex, gender and experienced stigmatisation of people with persistent somatic symptoms. Therefore, this project will first aim to provide an overview of available scientific evidence regarding the interaction between sex, gender and stigma towards persistent somatic symptoms. Second, it aims to synthesize the available evidence. |
| Research question / problem definition |
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Research aim 1: to provide an overview of available evidence regarding the interaction between sex, gender and stigma towards persistent somatic symptoms. Research aim 2: to synthesize the available evidence |
| Workplan |
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| Multiple databases, such as PubMed, Embase, PsycINFO and CINAHL will be searched for literature assessing the interaction between sex, gender and experienced stigmatization of people with persistent somatic symptoms. |
| References |
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- Hausteiner-Wiehle C, Schneider G, Lee S, Sumathipala A, Creed F. Gender, lifespand and cultural aspects (2011) in Medically unexplained symptoms, somatisation and Bodily Distress: Developing better clinical services. Ed. by Francis Creed, Peter Henningsen and Per Fink. - Piccinelli, M., & Simon, G. (1997). Gender and cross-cultural differences in somatic symptoms associated with emotional distress. An international study in primary care. Psychological medicine, 27(2), 433-444. - Mik-Meyer, N. (2011). On being credibly ill: Class and gender in illness stories among welfare officers and clients with medically unexplained symptoms. Health Sociology Review, 20(1), 28-40. - Ko, C., Lucassen, P., van der Linden, B., Ballering, A., & Hartman, T. O. (2022). Stigma perceived by patients with functional somatic syndromes and its effect on health outcomes–A systematic review. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 154, 110715. - von dem Knesebeck, O., Lehmann, M., Löwe, B., & Makowski, A. C. (2018). Public stigma towards individuals with somatic symptom disorders–Survey results from Germany. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 115, 71-75. - Ballering, A., Hartman, T. O., & Rosmalen, J. (2021). Long COVID-19, persistent somatic symptoms and social stigmatisation. J Epidemiol Community Health, 75(6), 603-604. - Ballering, A. V., Bonvanie, I. J., Hartman, T. C. O., Monden, R., & Rosmalen, J. G. (2020). Gender and sex independently associate with common somatic symptoms and lifetime prevalence of chronic disease. Social Science & Medicine, 253, 112968. |
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