Showing papers in "Journal of Psychosomatic Research in 1986"

TL;DR: The report reviews and discusses the concepts that form the foundation for the development of the PAIS, and describes six normative illness groups and contributions to construct validity for the scale from factor analytic and other studies of internal structure.

TL;DR: Patients in the training groups improved from 3 to 26 weeks post MI on all depression and anxiety measures, and the gym training group showed a significant reduction on one depression measures compared to no training and on one anxiety measure compared to controls.

TL;DR: A modest stress-promotion correlation was derived, which was greatly enhanced by significant interactions with low levels of cooperative coping style and for high levels of premorbid pessimism, future despair, somatic anxiety, and life threat reactivity.

TL;DR: The conclusion that family therapy may represent a valuable therapeutic tool in the management of severe asthma and show significant improvement after treatment concerning general pediatric assessment.

TL;DR: The results show that the different clinical manifestations of ischaemic heart disease are related to different sets of psychosocial predictors, including high initial ratings of passive dependency, neuroticism, experience of strain, grade of mental disorder and severity of major or minor depression.

TL;DR: It is concluded that beginning an exercise program, in itself, produces minimal psychological benefits and that other conditions, e.g. the presence of emotional problems, socialization along with exercise, or a training effect must be present for exercise to produce psychological benefits.

TL;DR: Malaise scores were relatively stable over time and the scale showed good psychometric properties, and the measure was also sensitive to potential sources of adversity in the backgrounds of the women.

TL;DR: It was suggested that stress management procedures involving teaching of problem-focused coping strategies and provision of social support would be most effective for this population of severe cases of genital herpes infection.

TL;DR: The interdialysis weight gains for most patients are found to be much higher than the levels used in the literature as cut-off points in determining 'non-compliance'.

TL;DR: Ambulatory monitoring of heart rate was used as one indication of psychological stress among 8 doctors involved in cardio-thoracic surgery and 8 doctors performing anaesthesia in the same operating theatre.

TL;DR: Relaxation was superior to the control procedure in reducing blood pressure as assessed by nurses blind to the participants' treatment at post-treatment for DBP and at follow-up forDBP and SBP.

TL;DR: It was argued that further research might more fruitfully focus on psychological processes involved in drop-out rather than continue to search for correlates of drop-outs.

TL;DR: The relative contribution of large airway obstruction to asthma was found to correlate with psychopathology and improvement on the methacholine challenge test was predicted almost perfectly by heliox spirometry.

TL;DR: It is concluded that under some circumstances social interaction may modify endocrine status in humans.

TL;DR: Pain intensity ratings were found to be overall higher in the PMS group irrespective of menstrual cycle phase, and the role of cognitive-perceptual processes is discussed in the context of the acquisition and maintenance of PMS symptomatology.

TL;DR: It is confirmed that the sympathetic adreno-medullary system is sensitive to mental stressors and that certain psychosocial and personality factors appear to have strong predictive values with regard to stressor-induced neurophysiological reactions.

TL;DR: The frequent consulters reported more symptoms, particularly upper respiratory, gastro-intestinal and back troubles, and took more proprietory medicines and more vitamin pills and were more inclined to negative mood.

TL;DR: Results showed that psychopathological tendencies were linked to premature labour and premature contractions and no differences were found concerning perceived social support or mothers' attitudes towards pregnancy.

TL;DR: Men who had high, medium and low blood pressure at age 18 (compulsory screening for military service in Stockholm) were examined ten years later at age 28 and high plasma adrenaline levels at rest were associated with few reported life events.

TL;DR: This study investigated further the role of psychological predictors and arthritic severity ratings in accounting for perceived pain and indicated that hypochondriasis was the predictor most highly related to pain.

TL;DR: The use of psychological 'pain control' techniques did not reduce the intensity of labour pain, nor did their use enable women to do without an epidural anaesthesic, but the use of techniques did correlate with reduced frequency of anaesthesia when women were consistently supported and encouraged throughout labour, and when the labour was relatively short.

TL;DR: Changes in patients' concepts of causation following the consultation with their doctor supported the idea that the GP often succeeds in reassuring patients who cannot understand their symptoms or who, without reason, fear they may be suffering from serious physical illness.

TL;DR: The findings of this study support the utility of the IBQ in the behavioral assessment of chronic pain patients and reveal that scores on theIBQ were highly predictive of a variety of indices of pain and pain behavior.

TL;DR: The authors studied 80 consecutive patients with chronic low back pain and used Beck Depression Inventory and the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale in an attempt to discriminate between the different types of depression.

TL;DR: Self ratings of anxiety, fatigue, depression and pain were highest on the immediate post-operative days, but patients utilised the coping factors Rational Cognition and Behavioural Action to the greatest extent, but ratings on coping factors fluctuated little over the study period.

TL;DR: Results suggest the importance of examining environmental, psychosocial, and treatment-related variables that may differentiate treatment centres and strongly support the role of classical conditioning in the development of anticipatory NV.