eng URI http://hdl.handle.net/10795/3410 υγεία ψυχική ασθένεια οικογένεια παιδί Background: Experience of common health symptoms without a clear physical or psychological cause, such as headache or dizziness, is often reported in adolescence. The present study attempted to investigate associations of self-reported subjective health complaints (SHC) with a number of sociodemographic factors of Greek adolescents. Methods: Questionnaires were administered to a Greek nationwide random school-based sample of adolescents aged 11 to 18 years and their parents in 2003. Data from 922 adolescent-parent pairs were analyzed (response rate = 63%). Adolescents’ reported subjective health complaints were assessed for their association with a number of sociodemographic factors: age, sex, type of area of residence according to level of urbanization, immigration background, parental education and employment status, family socioeconomic status and perceived quality of financial resources (PQFR). Multiple linear regression analysis was used to assess the association of the aforementioned factors with subjective health complaints as the dependent variable. Results: Most sociodemographic variables, apart from area of residence and immigration background, were independently associated with subjective health complaints in the univariate analyses. The multiple linear regression analysis, however, limited the factors that could predict adolescents’ subjective health complaints to four (age, sex, Family Affluence Scale score and perceived quality of financial resources). Some considerations regarding parental employment status and immigration background are highlighted. Conclusions: Our study highlights the sociodemographic components of subjective health complaints in the Greek adolescent population. The need to include adolescent-specific measures when collecting information on adolescents’ social background is underlined. Identifying vulnerable adolescent populations could lead to effective health promoting and preventive interventions. 29 pp. LOMv1.0 creator LOMv1.0 publisher LOMv1.0 Scientific Coordinator LOMv1.0 Project Executing Organisation 2012-06-29 Digital Library of the Operational Programme "Education and Lifelong Learning" abstract types Text Adolescence Financial resources Sociodemographic factors Socioeconomic status Subjective assessment Subjective health complaints http://annals-general-psychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1744-859X-11-17 393732 application/pdf http://repository.edulll.gr/edulll/bitstream/10795/3410/2/3410_1.32_%ce%94%ce%97%ce%9c_29_6_12.pdf URI http://hdl.handle.net/10795/3410 LOMv1.0creator 2016-05-25T11:14:27Z LOMv1.0validator 2016-05-25T11:14:27Z LOMv1.0 gre no no Copyright EYD-EPEDBM (Operational Programme "Education and Lifelong Learning")