Browsing by Subject "Stress, Psychological"
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A neural biomarker of psychological vulnerability to future life stress.
(Neuron, 2015-02-04)We all experience a host of common life stressors such as the death of a family member, medical illness, and financial uncertainty. While most of us are resilient to such stressors, continuing to function normally, for a ... -
A pilot study on mindfulness based stress reduction for smokers.
(BMC complementary and alternative medicine, 2007-01-25)<h4>Background</h4>Mindfulness means paying attention in the present moment, non-judgmentally, without commentary or decision-making. We report results of a pilot study designed to test the feasibility of using Mindfulness ... -
A putatively functional polymorphism in the HTR2C gene is associated with depressive symptoms in white females reporting significant life stress.
(PloS one, 2014-01)Psychosocial stress is well known to be positively associated with subsequent depressive symptoms. Cortisol response to stress may be one of a number of biological mechanisms that links psychological stress to depressive ... -
A survey and panel discussion of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on paediatric urological productivity, guideline adherence and provider stress.
(Journal of pediatric urology, 2020-08)<h4>Introduction</h4>The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented need to re-organise and re-align priorities for all surgical specialties. Despite the current declining numbers globally, the direct effects of the pandemic ... -
Cumulative early life adversity predicts longevity in wild baboons.
(Nat Commun, 2016-04-19)In humans and other animals, harsh circumstances in early life predict morbidity and mortality in adulthood. Multiple adverse conditions are thought to be especially toxic, but this hypothesis has rarely been tested in a ... -
Cumulative stress in childhood is associated with blunted reward-related brain activity in adulthood.
(Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci, 2016-03)Early life stress (ELS) is strongly associated with negative outcomes in adulthood, including reduced motivation and increased negative mood. The mechanisms mediating these relations, however, are poorly understood. We examined ... -
Depressive symptoms among informal caregivers of older adults: insights from the Singapore Survey on Informal Caregiving.
(International psychogeriatrics, 2012-08)This paper determines care recipient and caregiver characteristics and caregiving dimensions - associated with depression among caregivers of older adults, using path analysis and assesses whether the identified path model ... -
Distress tolerance to auditory feedback and functional connectivity with the auditory cortex.
(Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging, 2018-12)Distress tolerance is the capacity to withstand negative affective states in pursuit of a goal. Low distress tolerance may bias an individual to avoid or escape experiences that induce affective distress, but the neural ... -
Distressed Work: Chronic Imperatives and Distress in Covid-19 Critical Care.
(The Hastings Center report, 2023-01)This ethnographic study introduces the term "distressed work" to describe the emergence of chronic frictions between moral imperatives for health care workers to keep working and the dramatic increase in distress during ... -
Factors Affecting Adolescents' Willingness to Communicate Symptoms During Cancer Treatment: A Systematic Review from the Children's Oncology Group.
(Journal of adolescent and young adult oncology, 2019-04)The purpose of this systematic review is to (1) synthesize evidence facilitators and barriers affecting adolescent willingness to communicate symptoms to health care providers (HCPs) and (2) create practice recommendations. ... -
Family caregiver satisfaction with inpatient rehabilitation care.
(PloS one, 2019-01)<h4>Introduction</h4>Informal family caregivers play an increasingly important role in healthcare. Despite their role in ongoing management and coordination of care, caregiver satisfaction with the healthcare services care ... -
Food, class, and health: the role of the perceived body in the social reproduction of health.
(Health communication, 2013-05)The association between social class and cardiovascular health is complex, involving a constant interplay of factors as individuals integrate external information from the media, health care providers, and people they know ... -
Goal-Striving Stress and Incident Cardiovascular Disease in Blacks: The Jackson Heart Study.
(Journal of the American Heart Association, 2020-05)Background Goal-striving stress (GSS), the stress from striving for goals, is associated with poor health. Less is known about its association with cardiovascular disease (CVD). Methods and Results We used data from the ... -
Hair cortisol as a biomarker of stress in mindfulness training for smokers.
(J Altern Complement Med, 2014-08)OBJECTIVES: Stress is a well-known predictor of smoking relapse, and cortisol is a primary biomarker of stress. The current pilot study examined changes in levels of cortisol in hair within the context of two time-intensity ... -
Hearing impairment, social support, and depressive symptoms among U.S. adults: A test of the stress process paradigm
(Social Science and Medicine, 2017-11)Hearing impairment is a growing physical disability affecting older adults and is an important physical health stressor, but few studies have examined it in relation to mental health outcomes and even fewer have considered ... -
Homeopathic treatments in psychiatry: a systematic review of randomized placebo-controlled studies.
(J Clin Psychiatry, 2011-06)OBJECTIVE: To systematically review placebo-controlled randomized trials of homeopathy for psychiatric conditions. DATA SOURCES: Eligible studies were identified using the following databases from database inception to April ... -
How the effects of aging and stresses of life are integrated in mortality rates: insights for genetic studies of human health and longevity.
(Biogerontology, 2016-02)Increasing proportions of elderly individuals in developed countries combined with substantial increases in related medical expenditures make the improvement of the health of the elderly a high priority today. If the process ... -
Identifying treatment effects of an informal caregiver education intervention to increase days in the community and decrease caregiver distress: a machine-learning secondary analysis of subgroup effects in the HI-FIVES randomized clinical trial.
(Trials, 2020-02)<h4>Background</h4>Informal caregivers report substantial burden and depressive symptoms which predict higher rates of patient institutionalization. While caregiver education interventions may reduce caregiver distress and ... -
Impact of preoperative depression on 2-year clinical outcomes following adult spinal deformity surgery: the importance of risk stratification based on type of psychological distress.
(Journal of neurosurgery. Spine, 2016-10)OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to isolate whether the effect of a baseline clinical history of depression on outcome is independent of associated physical disability and to evaluate which mental health screening ... -
Interactions between life stress factors and carrying the APOE4 allele adversely impact self-reported health in old adults.
(The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 2011-10)Based on the multiple logistic regression analysis of data from a random sample of 1,023 old adults collected in Taiwan in 2000, we found that interactions between carrying the APOE4 allele and one of four life stress factors ...
