Showing papers in "Journal of Psychosomatic Research in 2009"

TL;DR: Despite many findings of correlates, the data do not yet justify terming them risk factors, and longitudinal studies are needed.

TL;DR: A brief in-hospital illness perception intervention can change perceptions and improve rates of return to work in MI patients, which increases the generalizability of the intervention to the current broader definition of MI and to patients who have had previous infarcts.

TL;DR: Although tics are the sine qua non of TS, they are often not the most enduring or impairing symptoms in children with TS, and measures used to enhance self-esteem are crucial to ensuring positive adulthood outcome in TS.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the association of insomnia symptoms with demographic and physical and mental conditions in a large population-based study and found that reporting insomnia symptoms significantly increased the associations with a range of conditions, especially mental conditions, pain conditions with uncertain etiology and, to a lesser extent, chronic pain conditions.

TL;DR: Attention now needs to be directed towards investigating potential moderators of the relationship, mediating mechanisms underpinning the association, as well as the demonstration of a causal link by the development of experimental interventions in healthy populations.

TL;DR: Independent of physical health conditions, obesity was associated with psychiatric disorders and suicidal behavior in the Canadian population.

TL;DR: The international prevalence, epidemiology, and clinical phenomenology of TS, from a cross-cultural perspective, is reviewed, highlighting the biological underpinnings of the disorder.

TL;DR: Psychological distress was a predictor of cancer mortality, especially in lung cancer, and the presence of participants with cancer history in community-based cohorts may overestimate the link.

TL;DR: The evidence for the relationship between social support and cancer progression is sufficiently strong for breast cancer as shown by five out of seven methodologically sound studies but consistently unconvincing for other types of cancer or in studies which combined differenttypes of cancer.

TL;DR: Investigating relations among meaning in life, depression, anxiety, and social support with self-reported general health found psychosocial factors, particularly depression and the two primary dimensions of meaning inlife, were related to perceived health.

TL;DR: To make the DSM-V and ICD-11 more suitable for primary care, it is proposed providing appropriate diagnostic categories for (1) the many mild forms of mental syndromes typically seen in primary care; and (2) the severe forms of comorbidity between somatoform, depressive, and/or anxiety disorder, e.g., with a dimensional approach.

TL;DR: A comprehensive search of Medline, PsycInfo, CINAHL, and EMBASE was performed to select studies focusing on patients with MUS, somatisation disorder, and hypochondriasis, and assessing prognostic factors as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Assessing the prevalence of anxiety and depression in stroke patients found anxiety is as prevalent as depression 4 months after stroke, and MADRS and HADS-D perform acceptably as screening instruments for depression, and H ADS-A for anxiety after stroke.

TL;DR: Interventions to reduce depression and anxiety and to improve patients' QoL should include both patients and spouses.

TL;DR: In this paper, the BPS model is extended by the introduction of semiotics and constructivism, and the impact of the model on research, medical education, and application in the practice of medicine is discussed.

TL;DR: This is the first study to show that a positive trait is related to good sleep quality above the effect of other personality traits, and to test whether pre-sleep cognitions are the mechanism underlying the relationship between any personality trait and sleep.

TL;DR: The Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) design can hopefully overcome the limitations of linkage and candidate gene studies, however, large-scale collaborations are needed to provide enough power to utilize the GWAS design for discovery of causative mutations.

TL;DR: This editorial is being written to update colleagues on DSM-V discussions concerning proposed changes to the DSM-IV chapter “Somatoform Disorders,” with a suggestion to rename the chapter and substantially recast the constituent diagnoses.

TL;DR: Negative illness beliefs, particularly those associated with the consequences of CAD, were significantly predictive of higher levels of depressive symptomatology at 3 and 9 months and positive illness perceptions were significantly associated with better HRQOL outcomes.

TL;DR: Findings are consistent with a hypothesis that links obesity and depression via metabolic disturbances involving the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis and abdominal fat distribution appears to be the key mediator in the relationship between Obesity and depression.

TL;DR: Insight into the possible underlying psychological mechanisms might help to develop adequate psychological interventions and to improve the overall management of fatigue in patients with multiple sclerosis.

TL;DR: The data suggest that physical trauma has a role in many patients in the onset of motor and sensory conversion symptoms, despite the current dominance of a psychological view of conversion symptoms.

TL;DR: Interventions aimed at strengthening the parent-child relationship throughout adolescence may protect emotional health and prevent longer-term emotional consequences in young adults.

TL;DR: Cognitive therapy had enduring effects that lasted beyond the end of treatment, and might be a new strategy to combat the global epidemic of obesity.

TL;DR: Dizziness is a highly prevalent symptom in the general population and a subgroup with comorbid anxiety is characterized by an increased subjective impairment and health care utilization due to their dizziness.

TL;DR: The prevalence of chronic pain in severely injured patients 3 years after the accident is considerably high and the development of chronicPain is more related to psychological factors, particularly PTSD symptoms, in the aftermath of the accident, as compared to sociodemographic and accident-related variables at the time of the incident.

TL;DR: It is suggested that disturbances in the development of the motor portions of cortical-subcortical circuits likely predispose to the development TS and that neuroplastic changes in control systems of the brain help to modulate the severity of symptom expression.

TL;DR: A positive association between MBT use and several medical conditions including various pain syndromes and anxiety/depression is found and high rates of perceived helpfulness of MBT for specific medical conditions are found.

TL;DR: Clinicians should evaluate psychosocial factors, as well as subjective disease status, to improve the QOL of patients with RA.

TL;DR: Alexithymia is associated with increased affective pain and hypochondriacal illness behavior, and the former relationship is better explained, and possibly mediated, by psychological distress and illness behavior.