Showing papers in "Journal of Psychosomatic Research in 2016"

TL;DR: Results from this systematic review indicate that patients with IBD have about a 20% prevalence rate of anxiety and a 15% prevalence rates of depression.

TL;DR: The results suggest that MM may mildly improve some sleep parameters in patients with insomnia and can serve as an auxiliary treatment to medication for sleep complaints.

TL;DR: The findings emphasize that the occurrence of mental distress is one important but not an exclusive factor among different motives to report the need for psychosocial support, and should thus consider multifaceted perspectives, facilitators and barriers when planning and implementing patient-centered psychossocial care services.

TL;DR: A large population-based study indicated scalability problems in the current version of the Perceived Stress Scale, but conducted analysis overall revealed better statistical fit for a two-dimensional than a unidimensional model.

TL;DR: Given the thematic range of the identified barriers, the diagnostic process of non-specific, functional, and somatoform disorders in primary care is highly complex and individual or practice-level interventions are needed to help address the diagnostic challenges.

TL;DR: Stigma was perceived more acutely by the relatives and friends of those who died by suicide than those bereaved by other causes of sudden natural or sudden unnatural death.

TL;DR: The results suggest that chronic tinnitus patients have more sleeping difficulties and associated worries about sleep or negative emotions in contrast to healthy controls, and Tinnitus-related distress is related to insomnia.

TL;DR: A meta-analysis reviewed the associations of ERI and over-commitment (OC) in the workplace with immunity and found the association between mucosal immunity and ERI was stronger than the cytokine and leukocyte sub-groups.

TL;DR: The current evidence indicates a predictive value of HRV in the survival of patients with cancer and higher vagal nerve activity might predict longer survival, but the results should be applied with caution considering the heterogeneity between included studies.

TL;DR: This review found that the use of CBT for the treatment of fatigue in patients with MS has a moderately positive short-term effect, however, this effect decreases with cessation of treatment.

TL;DR: A preliminary, uncontrolled test of a novel psychological attribution and emotional awareness and expression therapy that involves an initial individual consultation followed by 4 group sessions may lead to greater benefits than available psychological interventions for patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain, but needs controlled testing.

TL;DR: Total melatonin production in 24hours seems not to change in healthy ageing, but the maximal nocturnal peak concentration of melatonin might decline, so it is important to take this into account when prescribing melatonin supplementation to older people.

TL;DR: Lower first trimester maternal serum levels of 25(OH) D were associated with increased risk of developing autism in offspring, and may present an opportunity for prenatal intervention to reduce the risk for ASD.

TL;DR: This study shows that there is a strong relationship between stress and chronic NSNAP, and cannot support that stress is a risk factor for chronicNSNAP due to the low quality of the results according to the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation.

TL;DR: The current evidence indicates that the ISI, AIS, and PSQI yield comparable diagnostic properties for insomnia screening, and this work is the first to compare the diagnostic accuracy of these tools against a reference standard.

TL;DR: There was some evidence that psychosocial factors, particularly depression, were associated with medication adherence following ACS, and targeting depressive symptoms, screening for Type D personality, challenging maladaptive treatment beliefs, and providing better social support for patients may be useful strategies to improve medication adherence.

TL;DR: A short personality inventory could provide valuable information for preventive medicine when used as a means to screen entire populations for distinct risk exposure, in particular with respect to psychopathology.

TL;DR: The overlap of somatic, anxious and depressive syndromes is frequent in the general population but appears to be less common compared to primary care populations.

TL;DR: Strongest evidence supported perseverative negative thinking predicting subsequent depression, anxiety and emotional distress in people with long term conditions.

TL;DR: High prevalence of mental disorders and symptoms of anxiety, depression and distress were observed in the patients with cancer before finishing radiotherapy treatment and during the follow-up, with moderate effect sizes.

TL;DR: Within a population of MUPS patients DSM 5 SSD criteria are more restrictive than DSM IV criteria for somatoform disorders, and are associated with higher symptom severity and lower physical functioning.

TL;DR: Self-reported and objective sleep measures, in particular those regarding sleep quality, are weakly associated but have different psychological and biological correlates, which suggests that findings relating self-reported sleep may not necessarily be corroborated by objective sleep indicators.

TL;DR: Administrative data may be used for population-level surveillance of depression and anxiety in IBD, although they will not capture undiagnosed or untreated cases.

TL;DR: Children and adults with CFS may have one of 6 symptom-based phenotypes associated with sex, duration and severity of illness, and comorbidity, which needs to determine whether phenotypes predict treatment outcomes, and require different treatments.

TL;DR: The percentage of underlying somatic diseases in patients previously diagnosed with FSS is relatively small but unneglectable.

TL;DR: The findings point to a general and strong effect of effort on neuropsychological performance in FM patients, especially in the domain of memory, emphasizes the importance of effort testing in this population.

TL;DR: At least in some studies and for some outcomes, ALA, clonazepam, capsaicin and psychotherapy may show modest benefit in the first two months, but these conclusions are limited by generally short follow-up periods, high study variability and low participant numbers.

TL;DR: To prevent potentially avoidable emergency hospital admissions, greater efforts should be made to detect and treat co-morbid depression in people with chronic physical illness in primary care, with a particular focus on patients who have no partner, have experienced threatening life events, and have had a recent emergency hospital admission.

TL;DR: Well-being, particularly life satisfaction, is associated with reduced risk for incident cardiometabolic conditions in minimally-adjusted models, however, accounting for underlying behavioral pathways attenuates the association.

TL;DR: Ebola patient treatment in tertiary care does not seem to be associated with lower HrQoL and enhanced subjective risk of infection, but seems to yield feelings of social isolation in health-care professionals.