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The phrase "a distressing problem for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an issue that causes concern or difficulty for someone or a group.
Example: "The rising cost of living has become a distressing problem for many families struggling to make ends meet."
Alternatives: "a troubling issue for" or "a concerning challenge for".
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Urinary incontinence (UI) is a distressing problem for older people.
Chronic pain is a distressing problem for patients and is difficult, and sometimes distressing, to manage for clinicians [ 1- 4].
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Urinary fistulas have been recognized in the literature for centuries as a distressing problem that results most commonly from birth trauma or urogynecological surgery.
Eating disorders remain a distressing problem and increasingly sufferers include young men.
BANGKOK — Hopscotching the globe as Thailand's prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra repeatedly encountered a distressing problem: bad Thai food.
Vesicovaginal fistula continues to be a distressing problem that results most commonly from urogynecologic surgery.
Lymphoedema is a distressing problem affecting many women after breast cancer surgery.
In a study undertaken in Korea, anxiety about sexual performance was prevalent in cervical cancer survivors and dyspareunia was a major and distressing problem for women who received radiotherapy for cervical cancer [ 30].
Now that nausea and vomiting in chemotherapy have been significantly alleviated, fatigue due to the chemotherapy-induced anaemia has emerged as a major and distressing problem for patients (Curt et al, 2000).
Pain was the most distressing problem for multiple myeloma, monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance (MGUS) and leukaemia and lymphoma patients.
In May, a study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health gave a picture of young people's sexual problems that was sad enough in itself: about one in 10 young men and one in 10 young women had experienced a distressing sexual problem for at least three months in the last year.
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