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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

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

Abstract Title Presenter
Absent, reframed, or newly felt: postnatal hypertension, symptom experience, and future cardiovascular risk Rosa Mackay
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Socialized to neglect myself? Lessons from Jo Spence and artist-activists in health, help-seeking, and self-advocacy Alex Belsey
King’s College London
London, UK
When Symptoms Are Socially Compromising: Moral Contexts of Penile Cancer Recognition Siri Jonina Egede
Department of Public Health,
University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark
Dismissing, recognising and resignifying symptoms in pediatric pain care Henni Alava
Anthropology,
Tampere University
Tampere, Finland
Embodied Experience of Symptoms in Artisanal Fishing Communities Facing Socio-environmental Catastrophes in Brazil: Embodied Suffering and Care Practices Jaiana Meneses
Federal University of South Bahia- UFSB - Brazil
Porto Seguro, Brazil
How therapeutic explanations unfold between a patient and their socio-technological life-world Chloe Saunders
Aarhus University
Aarhus, Denmark
Diagnostic Diplomacy Johanna Rungholm
Department of Organization,.
Copenhagen Business School
Copenhagen, Denmark

Session 3: Risk factors for symptom persistence

18 September, 10:30–13:00
Chairs: Tina Wisbech Carstensen and Monica Greco

Abstract Title Presenter
Risk Factors and Causes of Functional Somatic Disorder: Insights from the DanFunD Cohort Marie Weinreich Petersen
Aarhus University Hospital
Aarhus, 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
Predictors of subjective health complaints and musculoskeletal pain in middle-aged women of different migrant status, a cohort study from Norway Nilam Shakeel,
Department of General Practice,
Institute of Health and Society,
University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
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

Session 4: Management and alleviation of symptoms

18 September, 10:30–13:00
Chairs: Chris Burton and Camilla Hoffmann Merrild

Abstract Title Presenter
Transdiagnostic cognitive behavioral therapy for severe and persistent fatigue? a feasibility study in primary care Elin Lindsäter
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden
Understanding Symptoms: diagnosis, cure, and bodily re-integration Helene Scott-Fordsmand
University College London
London, United Kingdom
Patient experiences with a multimodal rehabilitation programme for chronic pain and fatigue: a qualitative interview study

May-Lill Johansen
General Practice Research Unit,
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Tromsø, Norway

Targeting the right trauma. Treating PTSD in primary care Bruce Arroll
Auckland University
Auckland, New Zealand
Symptoms in Emergency departments -The Elephant in Emergency Rooms Atul Bansal
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Wexham, United Kingdom
From Symptoms to Sense-Making: a psychology-led interdisciplinary approach to complex persistent symptoms Dr Suzanne Heywood-Everett
Bradford District Care Foundation Trust
Bradford, UK
Helpful or harmful: a clinical evaluation of the lightning process for long covid Bruce Arroll
Auckland University
Auckland, New Zealand
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
Karolinska Institutet & Academic Primary Care Center
Stockholm, Sweden
Health Literacy and Healthcare Seeking with Colorectal Cancer Symptoms? A Cross Sectional Study Camilla Jøhnk
Research Unit of General Practice,
Department of Public Health,
University of Southern Denmark
Odense, Denmark
The embodiment of stress: early digital intervention in the workplace Mette Trøllund Rask
Department of Functional Disorders,
Aarhus University Hospital & Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University
Aarhus, Denmark

Last Updated 26.06.2026