Publications by authors named "J Hintikka"

During psychiatric diagnostic interviews, the clinician's question usually targets specific symptom descriptions based on diagnostic categories for ICD-10/DSM-5 (2, 3). While some patients merely answer questions, others go beyond to describe their subjective experiences in a manner that highlights the intensity and urgency of those experiences. By adopting conversation analysis as a method, this study examines diagnostic interviews conducted in an outpatient clinic in South Finland and identifies sequences that divulge patients' subjective experiences.

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Objectives: To explore myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) patients' experiences of a health psychological group intervention and its usefulness, non-usefulness or harmfulness for illness management and adjustment.

Design: A qualitative longitudinal study using inductive content analysis.

Methods: Semistructured interviews were conducted with 10 adults.

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Physical activity is essential in weight management, improves overall health, and mitigates obesity-related risk markers. Besides inducing changes in systemic metabolism, habitual exercise may improve gut's microbial diversity and increase the abundance of beneficial taxa in a correlated fashion. Since there is a lack of integrative omics studies on exercise and overweight populations, we studied the metabolomes and gut microbiota associated with programmed exercise in obese individuals.

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Background: Bullying victimization is experienced by more than 10% of children and adolescents worldwide and has been associated with numerous negative mental health consequences, such as depression and dissociation.

Aims: We investigated the association between bullying victimization and self-cutting in a Finnish adolescent population and whether depression and dissociation act as mediators in this association.

Methods: We used cross-sectional questionnaire data from Finnish students (age 13-18;  = 3345; boys  = 1454; girls  = 1891).

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Article Synopsis
  • The study explored the connection between alexithymia and the use of primary health care services among adolescents and young adults aged 13-18.
  • The findings revealed that higher levels of alexithymia (measured by the TAS-20 scale) were linked to increased visits to health care, but the significance disappeared when controlling for other factors.
  • Specifically, externally oriented thinking (EOT) was found to directly influence the frequency of health care visits, while difficulties in identifying and describing feelings were related to health care use only through their association with depression symptoms.
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