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Acute stress reactions to recent life events among women and men living with HIV/AIDS.

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A subset of individuals with HIV/AIDS experience high levels of acute stress reactivity to life events considered non-traumatic, and HIV-infected individuals who react strongly to ongoing life stressors are more likely to have developed PTSD symptoms in response to previous traumatic life events.
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Objective:This study examined the prevalence of acute stress reactions to recent life events among persons living with HIV/AIDS. A second aim was to investigate the relationship of acute stress rea...

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A longitudinal study of depression, pain, and stress as predictors of sleep disturbance among women with metastatic breast cancer.

TL;DR: Depression, especially worsening depression, was associated with the greatest number of types of negative change in self-reported sleep disturbances and the relationships found between sleep disturbance and depression, pain, and life stress suggest specific ways to address the problem of sleep disturbance for women with metastatic breast cancer.
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Acute Stress Disorder Revisited

TL;DR: Recommendations for changes in DSM-5 criteria and the development of more sophisticated research that considers ASD as but one of two or possibly three common acute posttraumatic syndromes are concluded.
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Psychiatric co-morbidity in vulnerable populations receiving primary care for HIV/AIDS.

TL;DR: Current clinical practices could be improved with the use of appropriate tools and procedures to screen and diagnose mental health disorders in populations with HIV/AIDS.
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HIV infection associated post-traumatic stress disorder and post-traumatic growth--a systematic review.

TL;DR: This systematic review was set out to explore post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and PTG in people with HIV to monitor prevalence, measurement and efficacy of interventions to reduce stress and/or promote growth and found PTG was under researched but showed a promising avenue of study.
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The Relationship of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Depression to Antiretroviral Medication Adherence in Persons with HIV

TL;DR: Only depression contributed significant unique variance to multiple regression analyses that included both continuous and dichotomous PTSD and depression and controlled for shared variance due to clustering of multiple observations, suggesting the primary role of depression and the secondary role of PTSD in poor adherence in individuals with HIV.
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Psychometric properties of the PTSD Checklist (PCL).

TL;DR: The psychometric properties of the PTSD Checklist, a new, brief, self-report instrument, were determined on a population of 40 motor vehicle accident victims and sexual assault victims using diagnoses and scores from the CAPS as the criteria to support the value of the PCL as a brief screening instrument for PTSD.
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Stress-related cortisol secretion in men: relationships with abdominal obesity and endocrine, metabolic and hemodynamic abnormalities

TL;DR: Interactions between diurnal cortisol secretion related to perceived stress and anthropometric, endocrine, metabolic, and hemodynamic variables seem to occur with apparently normal regulation of the HPA axis.
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