@article{4c56c5778b7e4d0b8b3cc30c33a824a4,
title = "Gender effects on outcomes of psychosomatic rehabilitation are reduced",
abstract = "OBJECTIVE: The study examined whether psychiatric/psychosomatic rehabilitation continues to have a better course of treatment for women than men.METHODS: We compared the course of global symptom severity, health-related quality of life and functioning between admission and discharge in patients (848 men, 1412 women) at an Austrian psychiatric/psychosomatic rehabilitation clinic.RESULTS: Gender-specific differences in the course of treatment were all too small to be clinically relevant. The differences were smallest in the middle-aged cohort. However, at the time of admission, women reported a slightly higher symptom burden.CONCLUSION: Overall, the results show a gender-fair effectiveness of the rehabilitation. The new findings could be explained by changes in living conditions, gender roles, or better treatment methods.",
keywords = "Adult, Aged, Austria/epidemiology, Female, Hospitalization, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Patient Discharge, Psychiatric Rehabilitation/standards, Psychophysiologic Disorders/epidemiology, Quality of Life, Treatment Outcome",
author = "Juliane Burghardt and Friedrich Riffer and Manuel Sprung",
note = "Funding Information: The Lower Austria research and education company (NFB) (Nieder{\"o}sterreichische Forschungs- und Bildungsges.m.b.H.; NFB) supported this research by financing the endowed professorship in clinical psychology held by MS. The Open Access Publishing Fund of Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, Krems, Austria supports the publication of this manuscript. The VAMED Institute for Gender Medicine financed the position held by JB. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The results of the present study were in part presented during a poster presentation at the 18th annual conference of the Austrian Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 Burghardt et al.This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.",
year = "2021",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1371/journal.pone.0256916",
language = "English",
volume = "16",
pages = "e0256916",
journal = "PLoS ONE",
issn = "1932-6203",
publisher = "Public Library of Science",
number = "8",
}