Showing papers in "Journal of Psychosomatic Research in 1999"

TL;DR: Data from this cross-sectional study were consistent with the hypothesis that many patients engage in an implicit cost-benefit analysis in which beliefs about the necessity of their medication are weighed against concerns about the potential adverse effects of taking it and that these beliefs are related to medication adherence.

TL;DR: The CES-D was established as a valid and reliable measure of depressive symptomatology in this sample of breast cancer patients and may be appropriate for use in clinical psychosocial research with cancer patients, yet further research is needed to evaluate its usefulness in other cancer populations.

TL;DR: Alexithymia was normally distributed in the population in both genders, confirming that it is a personality dimension, and was associated with male gender, advanced age, low educational level, and low socioeconomic status.

TL;DR: Results suggest that chronic burnout is associated with heightened somatic arousal and elevated salivary cortisol levels, which may be part of the mechanism underlying the emerging association between burnout and risk of CVD.

TL;DR: In this article, a systematic overview of all existing studies on parental sexuality during pregnancy and the postpartum period (months 1-6) is presented, which reveals that on average, female sexual interest and coital activity declines slightly in the first trimester of pregnancy, shows variable patterns in the second trimester, and decreases sharply in the third trimester.

TL;DR: There is little doubt that sex reassignment substantially alleviates the suffering of transsexuals, however, SRS is no panacea and psychotherapy may be needed to help transsexuals in adapting to the new situation or in dealing with issues that could not be addressed before treatment.

TL;DR: It is theorized that a subjective insomniac complaint either may be part of a larger syndrome that includes poor health and depression, or it may be related to continual stressors, reduced slow-wave sleep, and autonomic dysfunction, which increase the risk of heart problems.

TL;DR: The association between women's overall experience of labor and birth and a range of possible explanatory variables were studied in a group of 1111 women who participated in a birth center trial.

TL;DR: Both the Whiteley-7 scale and the Illness Conviction subscale had acceptable psychometric profiles, and both seem to be promising screening tools for not only hypochondriasis but also for somatoform disorders in general.

TL;DR: Although the research in this area focuses predominantly on one class of treatment—namely medicines—the findings offer an insight into the factors influencing patients’ responses to treatment in general.

TL;DR: Based on periodic 6-month assessments of BP over 6 years, the hazards of meeting criteria for borderline hypertension were greater for caregivers than for controls, and increased risk of hypertension was not related to the extent of daily living assistance provided, patient problem behaviors, or caregiver distress.

TL;DR: The data provide support for a multidimensional conceptualization of stress during pregnancy and identify predictors of each stress dimension.

TL;DR: The young men and women in this study, who were free of medication or sleep complaints, perceived their sleep inaccurately when compared to objective polysomnographic recordings.

TL;DR: Depressed patients were more disabled than the nondepressed, had a more negative view of their illness, and used more negative coping strategies, and the relationship between depression andnegative coping strategies became insignificant.

TL;DR: The results show that an examination considering both subject religiosity as well as sense of self-efficacy may predict depressive symptoms in HIV-infected gay men better than an examination that considers either variable in isolation.

TL;DR: The role of pain-related fear in moderating attentional interference produced by chronic pain was investigated and results are discussed in terms of how pain- related fear creates a hypervigilance to pain.

TL;DR: The most common theme reported by MI patients was healthy lifestyle change, whereas, for breast cancer patients, it was improved close relationships with others, and the way patients make sense of and adapt to chronic illness is discussed.

TL;DR: The results suggest that anger should be conceptualized as a multifactorial construct and in addition to presence, intensity, and expression of anger, targets of anger may be important to better understand psychological adaptation to chronic pain.

TL;DR: It is confirmed that a small proportion of patients is responsible for a disproportionate number of consultations, and that frequent consulters are highly heterogeneous, and have high rates of physical disease, psychiatric illness and social difficulties.

TL;DR: Anxiety in patients with rhinitis is present both as a state and as a trait, at least when measured with the STAI.

TL;DR: Findings from this study indicate different relationships between lifetime major depression and glycemic control for patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

TL;DR: The results show that WHOQOL-100 promises to be a comprehensive profile for generic use in the evaluation of contemporary health care, and shows excellent overall internal consistency reliability and can be used with individuals.

TL;DR: New criteria for somatization syndrome ("polysymptomatic somatoform disorder") are proposed taking into account for the strong association of Somatization and abnormal illness behavior.

TL;DR: Although a limited number of older adults resume "normal" sleep patterns after treatment, outcome is clinically meaningful as most patients report greater satisfaction with their sleep patterns, use less medications, and display less psychological distress and concerns about sleep.

TL;DR: Although various psychological measures correlate with sleep variables in sleep apnea subjects, many are explained by controlling age, body mass, and hypertension.

TL;DR: The results contribute to showing a pathway that may link negative affect with the development of cardiovascular disease, and several gender differences in response to the stressor and during the recovery period were observed.

TL;DR: This editorial addresses the most obvious taxonomic question: whether the authors are dealing with one or many phenomena when it comes to describing medically unexplained symptoms, and once they can see the taxonomy of the target phenomenon—MUS is this case—they must ask: do they have the necessary constructs to explain the occurrences of medically unexplained Symptoms?

TL;DR: High initial distress, increasing age, and high levels of perceived threat were significant independent predictors of morbidity, and no significant differences in outcome were found between intervention and monitoring groups at 3 months.

TL;DR: It is suggested that dualistic thinking provides neither a satisfactory model of chronic pain, nor of depression, and relies on questionable assumptions of homogeneous, diagnostically defined entities.

TL;DR: It is suggested that preoperative physical condition and amino acid disturbances may be related to delirium after cardiac surgery in the elderly.