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SymPCa 2026

Extended Programme

Outlines for parallel sessions

Session 1: What is a symptom?
17. September, 15.00-17.30
Chairs: Marianne Rosendal and Monica Greco

Presentations:

Abstract Title  Presenter 
Subjective-objective cognitive discrepancies in post COVID-19 patients Siv Elin Pignatiello
Section of Psychosomatic Medicine, Department of Specialized Psychiatry, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital
Department of Behavioral Medicine, University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
Making the Tender Point: The Enactment of a Fibromyalgia Diagnosis Lily Slanickova
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
London, United Kingdom
Who knows? Interprofessional negotiation of somatic symptoms in patients with mental illness Ingeborg Rose Vad
Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School
Frederiksberg, Denmark
What Is a Symptom? Meaning, Communication, and Bodily Regulation in Primary Care Kathrine Elizabeth Anker
Independent Scholar
Copenhagen, Denmark
Animated Illness: Agency and Temporal Instability in Contested/Functional Disorders Antti Lindfors
University of Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland
The Scope of Persistent Symptoms: An Integrative Approach to Symptom Perception Urte Laukaityte
Aarhus University
Aarhus, Denmark

 

Session 2: Symptoms in society
17. September, 15.00-17.30
Chairs: Juul Houwen and Sue Ziebland

Presentations:

 Abstract Title  Presenter
 To be announced   To be announced
   
   
   
   
 

 

Session 3: Risk factors for the development of symptom persistence 
18. September, 10.30-13.00
Chairs: Tina Wisbech Carstensen and Monica Greco 

Presentations:

Abstract Title Presenter
Risk Factors and Causes of Functional Somatic Disorder: Insights from the DanFunD Cohort 
Marie Weinreich Petersen
Aarhus University Hospital
Aarhus N, Denmark
Shifts in Healthcare Utilization, Medication Use, and Self-Rated Health Over Ten Years in People with Multiple Physical Symptoms Peter Haastrup
Research Unit of General Practice, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark
Odense, Denmark
Healthcare seeking with gynaecological cancer symptoms - results from two Danish population-based surveys in 2012 and 2022
Sofie Seldorf
Research Unit of General Practice
Odense, Denmark
The Clinical Burden of Women’s Health During the Reproductive and (Pre)menopausal Life Course in General Practice: A Retrospective Population-based Cohort Study Wikje Berends-Hoekstra
University of Groningen
University Medical Center Groningen
Department of Primary and Long-term Care
Groningen, The Netherlands
It helped me realize that I’m not the only one - Feasibility study in a clinical cohort investigating somatic symptoms following sexual assault. Sofie Abildgaard Jacobsen
Clinic for Functional Disorders
Aarhus University Hospital
Aarhus, Denmark 
The boundary blurring between 'risk factor' and 'cause' for the case of socially-minoritised patients
Tanvi Rai
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom

 

Session 4: Management and alleviation of symptoms 
18. September, 10.30-13.00
Chairs: Chris Burton and Camilla Hoffmann Merrild

Presentations:

Abstract Title Presenter
Transdiagnostic cognitive behavioral therapy for severe and persistent fatigue? a feasibility study in primary care Elin Lindsäter
Understanding Symptoms: diagnosis, cure, and bodily re-integration Helene Scott-Fordsmand
Patient experiences with a multimodal rehabilitation programme for chronic pain and fatigue: a qualitative interview study  May-Lill Johansen
Targeting the right trauma. Treating PTSD in primary care
Bruce Arroll
Symptoms in Emergency departments -The Elephant in Emergency Rooms Atul Bansal
From Symptoms to Sense-Making: a psychology-led interdisciplinary approach to complex persistent symptoms Suzanne Heywood-Everett
Helpful or harmful: a clinical evaluation of the lightning process for long covid
Bruce Arroll
Early Interventions for Primary Care Patients with Stress-Related Ill health:
A Randomized Controlled Non-Inferiority Trial of a Nurse-Led Collaborative Care Intervention versus Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Erik Hedman-Lagerlöf
Health Literacy and Healthcare Seeking with Colorectal Cancer Symptoms? A Cross Sectional Study  Camilla Jøhnk
The embodiment of stress: early digital intervention in the workplace
Mette Trøllund Rask

Last Updated 17.04.2026