Showing papers in "Psychosomatics in 1996"

TL;DR: The data indicate that a substantial subset of pediatric cancer survivors and their parents experience severe symptoms that can be understood within a posttraumatic stress model.

TL;DR: Cancer patients have a higher rate of PTSD than found in the community, and symptoms closely resemble those of individuals who have experienced other traumatic events.

TL;DR: Early identification of delirium with the Cognitive Test for Delirium may lead to timely treatment of specific etiologic conditions and a reduction in mortality and morbidity.

TL;DR: Peripheral serotonin is important in platelet aggregation and the modulation of vascular tone, and SSRIs block platelet uptake and pulmonary endothelial metabolism of serotonin, and use of these agents may conceivably result in bleeding and vasospastic complications.

TL;DR: Significantly more mothers of pediatric cancer survivors were diagnosed with lifetime PTSD and significant difference existed in the distribution of the number of prediagnosis high-magnitude events experienced by the mothers diagnosed with current PTSD.

TL;DR: The experience of trauma appears to be an important factor in the development of psychogenic seizures and sexual trauma alone was not significantly associated with psychogenic epileptic seizures.

TL;DR: Person moderate in the personality trait of neuroticism and high in conscientiousness had renal deterioration times that were 12 years longer than persons with either high or low neuroticism or low conscientiousness, presumably because of better self-care.

TL;DR: In this study, 37 children with asthma were assessed for DSM-III-R anxiety disorders with the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children and intrafamilial stress and there was more family history of emotional problems in the asthma group.

TL;DR: The hospital charts of 59 hospitalized oncology patients who had been treated with either dextroamphetamine or methylphenidate for depression during a 5-year period at the Massachusetts General Hospital were examined and it is concluded that psychostimulants are an effective and safe method of treatment for the depressed oncologists.

TL;DR: From the data reported, the need to maintain a continuity of psychosocial care among cancer survivors is inferred.

TL;DR: The first investigation of the use of alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine in nonsubstance-abusing outpatients with major depressive disorder was conducted by as mentioned in this paper, who found that the degree of alcohol consumption at baseline was a significant predictor of poorer response to the antidepressant.

TL;DR: It is believed that opiates should not be withheld from persons with chronic pain, even in the presence of addictive disease, as well as suggestions for the management of these concurrent disorders.

TL;DR: The incidence of psychiatric disorders and their association with lack of psychosocial resources and poor physical health supports the use of systematic, multidisciplinary assessment of transplant candidates.

TL;DR: In this article, a 16- to 45-year follow-up study of 71 men with antisocial personality disorder was conducted using the National Death Index Comparisons were made with the mortality experience of the general population of the state of Iowa by using gender and age standardized mortality ratios.

TL;DR: The authors observed that increased anxiety scores were associated with higher cholesterol levels and with prolonged QTc intervals, and the patients with anger attacks tended to have higherolesterol levels compared with the patients without these attacks.

TL;DR: By 4 months postinjury, the "no diagnosis" and the preburn diagnosis groups had comparable levels of adjustment, and this comparability was maintained at the 1-year follow-up.

TL;DR: Screening patients for anxiety disorders and drug abuse, as well as depression, is a better approach for identifying suicidal ideation in primary care settings than screening for depression alone and may help prevent suicide and suicide attempts.

TL;DR: The authors clarify the placebo construct and offer a selective review of its history, definitions, mechanisms, and relation to experimental methodology and statistics.

TL;DR: In this study, 379 normal adults completed the newly developed 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) and a screening list for DSM-III-R somatization disorder and results were replicated and cross-validated in a sample of 125 psychosomatic inpatients, supporting the view of an independency between alexithymic and somatized.

TL;DR: Clinicians offering specialist care for IBS should consult with psychiatric services to provide assessment irrespective of IBS outcome if major psychopathology is not to be neglected, the authors say.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the relationship between family history and depression in AD is more complex than previously thought.

TL;DR: Amitriptyline was more effective than acetaminophen in reducing pain intensity from the second week of treatment, and age and depression were the only significant pretreatment predictors of posttreatment pain.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined costs of delayed treatment for 23 disabled low back pain patients in a rehabilitation program and found that compensation costs averaged $26,159 per patient, a sum covering treatment for 3 patients.

TL;DR: In this article, a step-wise regression was done, controlling for baseline covariates that included type of medical treatment, months since diagnosis, type of induction chemotherapy protocol, sex of patient, and age of patient.

TL;DR: Group discussions and cognitive and behavioral exercises are used to teach patients to moderate four factors that amplify somatic distress and hypochondriacal health concerns: the attention they pay to their symptoms, their thoughts about them, the context in which they experience their symptoms and their moods.

TL;DR: The study's findings suggest that psychological factors play an important role in the perpetuation of the self-excoriative behavior exhibited by some women with acne.

TL;DR: Twenty-one patients with primary chronic pain received electroconvulsive therapy for concurrent affective symptoms and 20 of the 21 patients experienced improvement in the level of their pain.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors retrospectively compared 13 depressed organ transplant recipients treated with fluoxetine with 13 nondepressed matched control recipients and 11 transplant recipients treating with tricyclic antidepressants (nortriptyline or desipramine).