Symptom Clusters among Young Adolescents.

Examines recurrent psychosomatic symptoms and symptom clusters among Israeli school children (n=259). Results of a questionnaire that asked about the frequency of 8 psychosomatic and 8 organic complaints indicated that girls had a higher prevalence than boys for 8 of the symptoms, and that abdominal pain and headache were each reported as an accompanying complaint in more than 40% of cases for every other psychosomatic complaint. (JPS)