Heart rate variability and intima media thickness.

abstract：:Recently, several studies reported elevated cholesterol levels in panic disorder, agoraphobia, and general anxiety disorder, but the clinical relevance is still unsettled. All studies so far have disregarded the possible influence of dietary and physical exercise factors. In this study, 30 patients with different anxi...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Peter H,Goebel P,Müller S,Hand I

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Obesity has become a problem in the USA and identifying modifiable factors at the individual level may help to address this public health concern. A burgeoning literature has suggested that sleep and stress may be associated with obesity; however, little is know about whether these two factors moderate each ...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Yang TC,Matthews SA,Chen VY

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A large number of studies have provided clear evidence for a link between the risk of coronary heart disease and psychological risk factors. Much less attention has been given to the potential protective effect of psychological resources. PURPOSE:The major aim of this study was to investigate the independen...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Lundgren O,Garvin P,Jonasson L,Andersson G,Kristenson M

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We hypothesized that increasing anger verbal behavior in an assertive, constructively motivated style should decrease resting blood pressure (BP) and that this behavior may be one mechanism through which hostility relates to BP. We tested this hypothesis by conducting secondary analyses on a single-blind, matched, ran...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Davidson K,Macgregor MW,Stuhr J,Gidron Y

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a sample of 70 chronic pain patients, hierarchical multiple regression analyses were utilized to assess the additive and interactive contributions of pain severity and psychological distress variables to neurocognitive performance across attention and concentration, memory, and reasoning ability domains. Although t...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Iezzi T,Duckworth MP,Vuong LN,Archibald YM,Klinck A

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Academic work as well as compensated employment has been found adversely associated with frequent headache; headache remains a costly disorder to the person and to society. However, little is known of factors--other than prior headache complaints--that may predict headache frequency over extended periods of ...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Hovanitz CA,Thatcher DL

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oral diseases such as dental caries, periodontal disease, and tooth loss are a considerable public health problem. A review of the epidemiological data from many countries indicates that a global increase in dental caries prevalence affects children as well as adults. Despite the improvement in oral health o...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Gholami M,Knoll N,Schwarzer R

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main goals of this cross-sectional survey were (a) to describe the associations between sex, age, and physical activity behavior and (b) to describe the age and sex-related associations with the choice of structured (formal) and unstructured (nonformal) physical activity programs. At baseline, data were selected r...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Mota J,Esculcas C

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common genetic disorder of the blood. The disease produces significantly abnormal hemoglobin (Hgb) molecules in red blood cells (RBCs). The sickling of RBCs occurs when partially or totally deoxygenated Hgb molecules distort their normal disk shape, producing stiff, sticky, sickle...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Edwards CL,Scales MT,Loughlin C,Bennett GG,Harris-Peterson S,De Castro LM,Whitworth E,Abrams M,Feliu M,Johnson S,Wood M,Harrison O,Killough A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multimorbidity and illness will become more common due to increased life expectancy. PURPOSE:This study describes various combinations of diseases and symptoms and explores implications for mortality in a sample of 80-year-olds followed up to 95 years of age. Furthermore, reported subjective health, coping,...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Stålbrand IS,Svensson T,Elmståhl S,Horstmann V,Hagberg B,Dehlin O,Samuelsson G

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many studies have investigated the relationships between cardiovascular diseases and patients' depression; nevertheless, few is still known as regard the impact of illness severity on depression and whether psychosocial variables mediate this association. PURPOSE:The aim of this study is to investigate the ...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Greco A,Steca P,Pozzi R,Monzani D,D'Addario M,Villani A,Rella V,Giglio A,Malfatto G,Parati G

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whether handicap due to tinnitus-sound(s) in the ears and/or in the head in the absence of an external auditory source-is best conceived as dimensional or categorical remains an unanswered empirical question. PURPOSE:The objective was to investigate whether tinnitus severity was best conceptualized as quali...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Hesser H,Andersson G

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is a leading cause of disability worldwide and can worsen the course of a variety of medical illnesses. There is a clear need to develop more potent treatments for this debilitating disorder and prevent its return. We are developing a promising psychotherapy that integrates components of current, empiricall...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Hayes AM,Beevers CG,Feldman GC,Laurenceau JP,Perlman C

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A grounded theory study was undertaken to describe how adolescents make decisions about sunbathing during the transition from childhood to adolescence and to propose an explanation for the relationships among factors affecting the adoption of sun tanning. In-depth interviews (n = 40) were conducted separately with ado...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Shoveller JA,Lovato CY,Young RA,Moffat B

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There have been few empirical studies to explain the individual differences in and the underlying mechanism behind the Job Demand-Control (DC) Model. PURPOSE:This study examined the lagged effects of active coping on stress responses (i.e., psychological distress and physical complaints) in the context of t...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Shimazu A,de Jonge J,Irimajiri H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are 2.3 million children living with HIV worldwide, almost 90 % of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa. Access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV treatment has dramatically increased in resource-limited settings in recent years and allows more HIV-infected children to survive into adolescence and adul...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Vreeman RC,Nyandiko WM,Ayaya SO,Walumbe EG,Inui TS

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic abdominal pain (CAP) in childhood is widely prevalent and has adverse effects on mental health and quality of life. Earlier research emphasized the positive effects of psychological intervention on pain symptoms. This study describes the results of a cognitive-behavioral pain management program for c...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Groß M,Warschburger P

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous research has examined patients' beliefs in diabetes and how these beliefs may affect patient outcomes. However, changes in symptoms and complications are a common feature of diabetes, and these can significantly alter the patient's "disease experience." However, no consideration has been given to ho...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Searle A,Wetherell MA,Campbell R,Dayan C,Weinman J,Vedhara K

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Persons with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) are often sedentary, despite the benefits of the regular physical activity. This has motivated the search for variables that act as determinants of physical activity. Such variables are derived from theory and presumably represent targets of behavior...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Suh Y,Joshi I,Olsen C,Motl RW

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines the association between three dimensions of perceived parenting--warmth, strictness, and expectation--and adult cognitive and socioeconomic achievement outcomes. Structural equation models (N = 7,035) were used to examine simultaneously the influence of parenting on adult achievement while contro...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Singh-Manoux A,Fonagy P,Marmot M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Syndemic approaches explore the synergistic relationships between social and health inequities. Such approaches are particularly salient for the Northwest Territories, Canada, that experiences national social (food insecurity, intimate partner violence [IPV]) and health (sexually transmitted infections [STI]...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Logie CH,Lys CL,Mackay K,MacNeill N,Pauchulo A,Yasseen AS 3rd

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Expectations congruently influence, or bias, pain perception. Recent social psychological research reveals that individuals differ in the extent to which they believe in expectation biases and that individuals who believe in expectation biases may adjust for this bias in their perceptions and reactions. That...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Handley IM,Fowler SL,Rasinski HM,Helfer SG,Geers AL

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The beliefs patients hold about their disease and corresponding treatment have been shown to predict recovery in cardiac patients. PURPOSE:However, it is not known to what extent these beliefs change during participation in cardiac rehabilitation and whether this is related to psychological indicators of ou...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Janssen V,De Gucht V,van Exel H,Maes S

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known on the level of physical inactivity and its behavioral and cultural correlates among East Asian college students. PURPOSE:The aim of this study is to examine and compare the level and behavioral and cultural correlates of physical inactivity among college students in Taiwan, Hong Kong, South...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Seo DC,Torabi MR,Chin MK,Huang SF,Chen CK,Mok MM,Wong P,Chia M,Lee CG,Wang C

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:At the beginning of the 1990s, the World Health Organization (WHO) developed a project in order to create a cross-cultural instrument of quality of life assessment: the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL). PURPOSE:This paper describes the development of the European Portuguese version of the ...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Canavarro MC,Serra AV,Simões MR,Rijo D,Pereira M,Gameiro S,Quartilho MJ,Quintais L,Carona C,Paredes T

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caffeine is the most widely consumed pharmacologically active substance in the world, and a key issue concerning its possible implications for human health is whether it has persistent (i.e., chronic) physiological effects on habitual consumers. This study examined blood pressure, heart rate (HR), electromyogram (EMG)...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： James JE

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study aims to examine the appropriateness of substituting the Short-Form 36 (SF-36) by its shortened version (SF-12) in measuring health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in older Chinese population. METHODS:Secondary analysis of two transitional care management programs, conducted from 2009 to 2012, were a...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Lee PH,Wong FK,Wang SL,Chow SK

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Type D (distressed) personality refers to a general propensity to psychological distress defined by the combination of negative affectivity and social inhibition. Type D personality predicts poor mental and physical health in cardiac patients, but it has been argued that its assessment is affected by the...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Mommersteeg PM,Denollet J,Kavelaars A,Geuze E,Vermetten E,Heijnen CJ

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Survival rates among cancer survivors have improved; however, treatments affect body esteem. Body esteem can significantly affect quality of life and depression following cancer treatment. The purpose of these secondary analyses was to examine the relationship between changes in fitness and body fat with cha...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Kindred MM,Pinto BM,Dunsiger SI

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study analyzed the relationship between psychosocial factors and progression in intima media thickness (IMT). In 1998 and 2002, 95 healthy participants underwent a clinical examination, including ultrasound of the arteria carotis communis (ACC). IMT progression in women was 0.033 mm/year (SD=0.033) and in men 0.0...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Eller NH,Netterstrøm B

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00