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August 12, 2004 Contact: HRSA Press Office
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HRSA Researchers Examine Common Physical Symptoms Among Teenage Girls in JAMA Article

HRSA researchers find that symptoms such as headache and morning fatigue among adolescent girls often occur simultaneously and counsel health care providers to view co-occurring symptoms as possible signs of underlying social and behavioral problems.
 
“Headache, stomachache, backache, and feeling tired in the morning among adolescent girls in the United States: Associations with behavioral, sociodemographic, and environmental factors,” by first author Reem M. Ghandour, M.P.A., of HRSA’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau, appears in August’s Journal of the American Medical Association's Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine.
 
The study examines the prevalence, frequency and simultaneous occurrence of selected symptoms and investigates their association with social, behavioral and environmental risk factors such as social support from parents, teachers or friends; bullying; alcohol and caffeine use; and smoking.   Data are drawn from a 1997-1998 nationally representative, school-based survey of U.S. adolescents.


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