Subjective physical complaints were assessed by the question: During the past 6 months, how often have you had the following...? Below this question a list of eight different physical and emotional complaints was presented, including headache, backache, and feeling low.
The age distribution for the nonmigrainous and migrainous chief complaints is presented in Figure 1.
Of equal importance, a large body of literature has documented how cultural differences between patients and doctors may result in different expectations to the encounter, influence the therapeutic alliance, and how illness complaints are presented and validated [ 42].
Five emotional impact statements ("my complaints made me desperate", "my complaints felt like a drama", "I was very concerned about my complaints", "I was very frightened about my complaints", and "I was very depressed about my complaints") were presented with response categories 0 = never, 1 = rarely, 2 = sometimes, and 3 = often.
What type of knee complaints are presented to the GP, and what is their severity and impact on daily activities? 2. What is the one-year prognosis of knee complaints presented to the GP? 3. What are the factors predicting prognosis?
In July 2003, the Broadcasting Standards Commission dismissed some of the complaints as the episode was presented as a drama and not a factual account.
New complaints were defined as complaints that were presented to the GP for the first time.
When chronic pain complaints were present, COMT Met carriers displayed stronger cortical pain processing of stimuli than the Val homozygotes.
Again, the hypothesized pain augmenting effect of the BDNF Met allele only occurred when chronic pain complaints were present.
Similar to the results of the COMT polymorphism, the interaction between pain status and the BDNF Met allele indicated that when chronic low back pain complaints were present, the Met allele carriers displayed stronger ERP amplitudes (P1 component) compared to Val homozygotes.
