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Christel Lundh

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PubMed2004

Generation shift in family vs. working conditions as most important influence on women's mood? The Prospective Population Study of Women in Gothenburg, Sweden.

OBJECTIVE: To find out whether family or working conditions is most important for mood in different ages in women. DESIGN: Prospective study. SETTING: Göteborg, Sweden, population about 430,000. SUBJECTS: Representative samples of a general population of women, born in 1930 (n = 276), 1942 (n = 93) and 1954 (n = 61), examined both in 1980-81 and 1992-93. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Associations between "mood" and different social factors indicated by correlation coefficients and studied cross-sectionally and longitudinally. RESULTS: In younger women, the variable "mood" was associated with variable work situation but not family situation (correlation coefficient 0.47, p <0.001, and correlation coefficient 0.26, not statistically significant, respectively), while in older women "mood" was associated with variable family situation as well as work situation (correlation coefficients 0.45 and 0.41, p <0.01 both). Changes in the mood variable between 1980-81 and 1992-93 were associated with changes in working conditions in the younger cohort, but with changes in variable family conditions in the older cohort. CONCLUSIONS: In the latest born cohort, the importance of women's paid work outside the home was increased as an influential factor on mood in comparison with the importance of the family situation, while the situation was the opposite in the earlier born cohorts.

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PubMed2004

To be a helpless helpoholic--GPs' experiences of women patients with non-specific muscular pain.

OBJECTIVES: To explore and describe what it means to be a GP meeting patients with non-specific symptoms. DESIGN: Focus group interviews analysed in a phenomenological approach. SETTING: GPs at two urban healthcare centres from a big city, a low socioeconomic area with mostly immigrants and a high socioeconomic area, and from a smaller town. SUBJECTS: 14 GPs in 3 focus groups. RESULTS: The essence of the study was the GPs' feeling of being a "helpless helpoholic". All GPs specified the patient with non-specific symptoms as a female patient with muscular pain. The key constituents were: inconsistent patient, insufficient tools, frustration, helplessness, and devotion to help. The tools were described as communication skills, biomedical education, and holistic perspective. Even if most informants were trained in communication skills, this did not help to avoid the feeling of helplessness. CONCLUSIONS: To be a "helpless helpoholic" may make the GPs less patient-centred and may create even more feelings of frustration and helplessness. This can be an important reason why consultations with female patients with non-specific muscular pain often fail.

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