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The social readjustment rating scale
Thomas H. Holmes,Richard H. Rahe +1 more
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This report defines a method which achieves etiologic significance as a necessary but not sufficient cause of illness and accounts in part for the time of onset of disease and provides a quantitative basis for new epidemiological studies of diseases.About:
This article is published in Journal of Psychosomatic Research.The article was published on 1967-08-01. It has received 10629 citations till now.read more
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Clinical Applications of Cognitive Therapy
TL;DR: This volume provides an integrated approach to the use of cognitive therapy in dealing with the clinical syndromes and personality disorders that are most common in young people.
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Traumatic stress, perceived global stress, and life events: prospectively predicting quality of life in breast cancer patients.
Deanna M. Golden-Kreutz,Lisa M. Thornton,Sharla Wells-Di Gregorio,Georita M. Frierson,Heather S. L. Jim,Kristen M. Carpenter,Rebecca A. Shelby,Barbara L. Andersen +7 more
TL;DR: Using hierarchical multiple regressions, the authors found that stress predicted both psychological and physical QoL and underscore the need for timely psychological intervention.
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The quality of life of hemodialysis and transplant patients
TL;DR: The results suggest that cadaveric transplantation may have limited value as an intervention to improve quality of life for patients with ESRD.
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Transition: Understanding and Managing Personal Change
TL;DR: Parkes as mentioned in this paper describes the need to give up one mode of life and accept another in the ongoing flux of life, in which the old environment must be given up, the new accepted.
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Abnormalities of pregnancy as a function of anxiety and life stress.
Richard L. Gorsuch,Martha K. Key +1 more
TL;DR: Results indicated that anxiety around the first trimester was related to abnormalities of pregnancy, parturition and infant status, and life stress during the second and third trimesters was similarly associated with the same measure of abnormalities.
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Ratio scales and category scales for a dozen perceptual continua.
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Social stress and illness onset.
TL;DR: With one exception, illness onset is dated by inittal recognttion of symptoms judged by experts to be associated with the particular diseases.