Increase of medical hospital length of stay by depression in stroke and amputation patients: a pilot study.

abstract：:Noting concerns for the measurement of alexithymia, the present study attempted (1) to provide descriptive data on the Schalling - Sifneos Personality Scale ( SSPS ); (2) to replicate previous factor-analytic findings on the SSPS , and (3) to suggest an alternative to the present method of scoring the SSPS . A sample ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Martin JB,Pihl RO,Dobkin P

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Concerns about the risk-benefit ratio of treatment with antidepressants in the light of recent evidence pointing to a risk of suicide induction during the course of treatment with antidepressants. These concerns have led to a series of recent studies exploring national rates of suicide and correlating these ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Reseland S,Le Noury J,Aldred G,Healy D

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was a randomized prospective clinical trial to test the effect of a professionally provided program of social support counselling on newly diagnosed lung cancer patients and their families. Over the 6 months of the intervention there was no differential change by experimental status for either the patients ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Goldberg RJ,Wool MS

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of short-term dynamic psychotherapy is, through working with a central conflict and transference reactions, to obtain lasting changes based on cognitive and emotional understanding of the main dynamics of the central conflict, called insight. The aim of the present study was to construct a follow-up form that ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Husby R,Dahl AA,Dahl CI,Heiberg AN,Olafsen OM,Weisaeth L

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stress reduction and comprehensive lifestyle modification programs have improved atherosclerosis and cardiac risk factors in earlier trials. Little is known about the impact of such programs on quality-of-life (QoL) and psychological outcomes. Given recent significant improvements in cardiac care, we evaluat...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Michalsen A,Grossman P,Lehmann N,Knoblauch NT,Paul A,Moebus S,Budde T,Dobos GJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive therapy includes a variety of methods. There are two main schools, a currently predominant American one, and an earlier European one. They give different emphasis to the concept of the evolution of human cognition. There is agreement on the particular significance of surmounting absolutist thinking. ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Becker R

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:: Previous studies of cancer patients investigated the effect of psychological treatment on basal endocrine and immune values. Using a randomized experiment, we explored the effect of a 13-week experiential-existential group psychotherapy (EEGP) program on the reactivity to a speech task in breast cancer pat...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： van der Pompe G,Antoni MH,Duivenvoorden HJ,de Graeff A,Simonis RF,van der Vegt SG,Heijnen CJ

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While the extent of medical comorbidity in depressive illness is widely recognised, there have been few studies where objective and subjective assessment of comorbidity in chronic depression have been made. The aim of this study was to determine the extent and nature of medical comorbidity, in terms of both ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Schrader GD

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functions and dysfunctions of slow wave sleep and of REM sleep and its associated dreams have a tremendous significance in understanding the psychosomatic model of illness and in establishing preventive strategies. Ten patients suffering from a variety of psychosomatic illnessess spent 3-4 nights sleeping at the D...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Warnes H

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite evidence that cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is effective for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), little is known about which components of therapy are most efficacious. The present study compared the efficacy of CBT with cognitive therapy (CT) and behavioral therapy (BT) for patients with RA. We hypothes...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Sharpe L,Schrieber L

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The relative efficacy of supplemental psychotherapy in the treatment of depression is still a matter of debate. Moreover, the superiority of brief dynamic therapy (BDT) over supportive psychotherapies is not well established. The aim of this study is to compare the efficacy of BDT added to medication with th...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Maina G,Rosso G,Crespi C,Bogetto F

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has indicated a tendency among type A individuals to report less subjective arousal than type B individuals. Differences in attentional style between type A and type B individuals have been suggested to account for this tendency. The present paper describes a study which employed adult male subjects ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Roldan FH

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous research reveals an association between traumatic stress and an increased risk for numerous diseases, including cancer. At the molecular level, stress may increase carcinogenesis via increased DNA damage and impaired DNA repair mechanisms. We assessed DNA breakage in peripheral blood mononuclear cel...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Morath J,Moreno-Villanueva M,Hamuni G,Kolassa S,Ruf-Leuschner M,Schauer M,Elbert T,Bürkle A,Kolassa IT

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of the hyperventilation syndrome (HVS) has often been associated with stress. In this experiment with normal subjects responses of PACO2, respiration rate, heart rate and checklist measures were registered in a stressful, real-life situation, namely waiting for an examination. Heart rate and one checkli...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Garssen B

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to the diagnosis of symptoms we recently proposed the empirical analysis of psychodynamic levels; this paper aims at an empirical study of a third, and most essential, problem area: disturbances and/or regulatory processes of the self-system. Based on Deneke's newly developed questionnaire, 30 anorexia ner...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Engel K,Fuchs M,Meier I,Deneke F

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parent-child treatments have been shown to be superior to child-focused treatments of childhood obesity. Yet until now, the comparative effectiveness of parent-only and parent-child approaches has been little studied. METHOD:Fifty-six obese children and their families were randomly assigned to a 16-session ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Munsch S,Roth B,Michael T,Meyer AH,Biedert E,Roth S,Speck V,Zumsteg U,Isler E,Margraf J

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results are reported from an investigation on job strains in dialysis nurses and needs for psychosocial staff training. 174 dialysis nurses in the Federal Republic of Germany answered the clinical questionnaire, which was distributed in cooperation with the German section of the EDTNA. Although the majority emphasized...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Muthny FA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antidepressant use is highly prevalent. Research has mainly focused on efficacy during short periods of use for depression and anxiety. There is a relative paucity of data regarding the frequency of long-term use. METHODS:To determine the prevalence and possible increase of long-term use of antidepressants ...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Huijbregts KM,Hoogendoorn A,Slottje P,van Balkom AJLM,Batelaan NM

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the contradictory reports concerning psychophysiological reactivity of hypertensives this issue was reexamined. In contrast to the large majority of studies, the hypertensive sample should not be made up of patients in medical care and the control group should be comparable in all relevant aspects other than blo...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Köhler T,Scherbaum N,Ritz T

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It used to be fashionable to begin consideration of psychosomatics about philosophy of mind and body. Nowadays it is a topic about health and practical care of patients--principally about the psychological aspects of any illness. Pathogenesis is becoming understood with some risk factors clearly identifiable. The high...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Aitken C

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Families can have considerable influence on the health of a patient with a chronic physical disease, and attempts have been made to optimise treatment by involving family members. This meta-analysis aimed to systematically assess the effects of family-oriented interventions on adults with chronic physical di...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Hartmann M,Bäzner E,Wild B,Eisler I,Herzog W

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Face-to-face psychological treatments have difficulty meeting today's growing mental health needs. For the highly prevalent posttraumatic stress (PTS) conditions, accumulating evidence suggests that writing therapy may constitute an efficient treatment modality, especially when administered through the Inter...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： van Emmerik AA,Reijntjes A,Kamphuis JH

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty morbidly obese married women and 69 of their husbands completed a self-report measure of personal and marital adjustment before the women proceeded to gastric restriction surgery. Fifty-five women and 41 husbands repeated the measure 12 months after surgery, at which time the women had lost a mean of 35.4 kg. W...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Hafner RJ

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the possibilities to identify, within a group of acute low-back pain patients, individuals with psychogenic etiology to pain. 26 acute back pain patients and 25 healthy control subjects were tested with the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Hysteria: (Hs), Hypochondria (Hy), Depressio...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Sivik TM

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some patients become grossly disorganized during a hospital stay for medical illness. In the midst of a confusing medical picture, the unpredictable behavior of such patients causes great consternation among the medical or surgical staff. Families also become particularly anxious; their concern about the medical probl...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Nadelson T

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression after acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is associated with worse cardiac outcomes. This systematic review evaluated whether depressed ACS patients are at differential risk depending on the recurrence and timing of onset of depressive episodes. METHODS:MEDLINE, EMBASE and PsycINFO were searched from i...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Zuidersma M,Thombs BD,de Jonge P

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) is a poorly understood condition in which patients report symptoms following perceived exposure to weak electromagnetic fields (EMFs) such as those produced by mobile phones or visual display units. Little is known about the aetiology of the condition although experimen...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Rubin GJ,Das Munshi J,Wessely S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Psychological debriefing uses brief unsystematic exposure, and is ineffective for posttraumatic stress symptoms and disorder. Systematic exposure alone and cognitive restructuring alone are each effective. Other approaches too may be useful. METHODS:The treatment of 3 posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) pa...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Belaise C,Fava GA,Marks IM

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about prognostic factors in the treatment of bulimic patients. In the context of an ongoing study we looked at 1-year symptomatic outcome of 37 outpatients fulfilling DSM-III-R criteria for bulimia nervosa in relation to a variety of measures at first assessment. These included multiple measures of dep...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Herzog T,Hartmann A,Sandholz A,Stammer H

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author describes the development of the research activity at a psychiatric clinic near Oslo, Modum Bads Nervesanatorium, a psychotherpeutic-oriented institution treating patients with neuroses, substance abuse and character disorders. In 1985 an institute for clinical research was built as an independent unit with...

journal_title：Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

authors： Roness A

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00