Citation

Glozah FN, Pevalin DJ. J. Health Psychol. 2016; 22(11): 1376-1386.

Affiliation

University of Essex, UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1359105316628736

PMID

26903075

Abstract

Little is known about the role of age and gender in the association between psychosomatic symptoms and common mental illness in Ghanaian adolescents. This cross-sectional study examined age and gender as moderators between psychosomatic symptoms and common mental illness using data from a school-based survey (N = 770). Males reported higher psychosomatic symptoms and common mental illness, while younger adolescents reported higher common mental illness only. Psychosomatic symptoms were positively associated with common mental illness, but age and gender did not moderate this association. Interventions aimed at reducing the prevalence rate in psychosomatic symptoms are crucial in decreasing common mental illness in Ghanaian adolescents.

Language: en