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OBJECTIVE:There is wide variability in latency to attend hospital following a myocardial infarction (MI). The present study assessed possible psychological factors that may be implicated in delayed presentation. METHOD:Seventy-two patients who had experienced a confirmed MI were interviewed in hospital, 3-5 days post-MI. They completed a series of psychological measures of cardiac denial, cardiac threat, alexithymia, health locus of control, neuroticism and mood. RESULTS:Those patients who believed that they were having a heart attack sought help quicker than those who did not, and those who waited over 4 hours prior to seeking medical help had significantly lower scores on neuroticism, and higher scores on denial and health locus of control (chance). Confirmatory multiple regression analysis using an alternative estimate of delay in seeking help confirmed that health locus of control (chance) was the best predictor of delayed attendance. CONCLUSION:The present study confirms that the belief that one is having a MI is associated with prompt attendance, and additionally that the belief that health outcomes are largely due to chance factors is associated with delayed presentation following a MI. This delay could prove fatal. Modification of such beliefs may reduce response times and, thus, increase survival rates.
journal_name
J Psychosom Resjournal_title
Journal of psychosomatic researchauthors
O'Carroll RE,Smith KB,Grubb NR,Fox KA,Masterton Gdoi
10.1016/s0022-3999(01)00265-3subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2001-10-01 00:00:00pages
611-4issue
4eissn
0022-3999issn
1879-1360pii
S0022-3999(01)00265-3journal_volume
51pub_type
杂志文章abstract：:This paper reviews the methodology of studies of recent life events and illness, as relevant to psychosomatic studies. Three critical issues are discussed: the method of data collection; elimination of events which are consequences of illness; quantification of stress. It is concluded that the most important aspect is...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0022-3999(83)90065-x
更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVES:Depressive symptoms are prevalent and cause adverse outcomes in heart failure. Previous studies have linked depressive symptoms with socioeconomic status. However, little is known about the mechanisms underlying this relationship. This study aimed to evaluate the association between socioeconomic status and ...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpsychores.2016.10.006
更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Following the 1991 Gulf War (GW) there was much controversy surrounding service-related health effects. Evidence from the Vietnam experience suggested that self-reported ill health following that conflict might be related to how service during the conflict is framed. The aim of this article is to determine i...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpsychores.2006.01.002
更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the anger levels and their management in obese patients. METHODS:A total of 103 obese women [51 with Binge Eating Disorder (BED) and 52 without BED] were included in the study and compared to 93 healthy controls. They were assessed with the State-Trait Anger Expression I...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0022-3999(02)00462-2
更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:Disturbances in sleep continuity are common among individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD) and can impact the course of depression and response to treatment. Several studies have examined depressive symptom severity among sleep-disordered patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). In contrast, littl...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi：10.1016/j.jpsychores.2009.03.011
更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The present study assesses the possible disruption effect of posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) with regard to the protective role of attachment on pain, among ex-POWs. While secure attachment seems to serve as a buffer, decreasing the perception of pain, this function may be disrupted by PTSS. The study sample incl...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpsychores.2015.10.008
更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore somatic conditions in a sample of 2299 child and adolescent survivors of an earthquake and their relationship to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. METHODS:The Children's Revised Impact of Event Scale, the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-13 scale, a short version of PHQ-15 scale tha...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpsychores.2015.06.001
更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Alexithymia is a personality construct involving difficulties identifying and verbalizing feelings, and an externally oriented thinking style. There is preliminary evidence for alexithymia subtypes that may carry different risk profiles for psychiatric illness. The aim of this study was to gain support for t...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpsychores.2017.04.010
更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aims of this study were: i) to compare the severity of somatoform and psychoform dissociation and childhood trauma among migraine patients, tension-type headache patients (TTH), and healthy controls; and, ii) to identify any relationships between headache characteristics and dissociative symptoms and trau...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpsychores.2014.04.007
更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The relationships between several psychological variables and salivary cortisol levels were investigated in 70 young mothers throughout the first five days following the delivery of a healthy baby. We hypothesized that postpartum blues is associated with ineffective coping strategies, high anxiety levels, and elevated...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0022-3999(90)90088-l
更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Obesity and depression both individually contribute to the risk of Type II Diabetes (T2DM). The extent to which obesity can be set-off by depression is unknown. METHODS:In a sample of 9340 participants followed for 15.4 years (79,372 person-years) from the prospective MONICA/KORA population-based cohort con...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpsychores.2018.10.007
更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:The goal of this investigation was to determine in healthy adults the effect of expectation manipulations on the development of motion sickness, as indicated by abnormal gastric myoelectric activity and subjective reports of symptoms of motion sickness. METHOD:Eighty participants, moderately susceptible to m...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/S0022-3999(03)00130-2
更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:Self-reported asthma symptoms correlate only modestly with measures of underlying pathophysiological mechanisms. In this study, we investigated the role of fear of symptoms and perceived control on respiratory symptom perception in patients with asthma. METHODS:Patients with intermittent to moderate persiste...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpsychores.2011.04.005
更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The acute psychological reactions of 101 train drivers to on-the-track accidents were studied by means of clinical interviews and questionnaires (Impact of Event Scale, GHQ-20 and a questionnaire addressing stress symptoms, pre-accident expectancies and worries). More than half of the train drivers reported moderate t...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0022-3999(93)90169-g
更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：PURPOSE:Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is characterized by profound fatigue accompanied by disturbances of sleep, cognition, mood, and other symptoms. Our objective was to describe sleep architecture in CFS-discordant twin pairs. METHODS:We conducted a co-twin control study of 22 pairs of monozygotic twins where one t...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/S0022-3999(03)00598-1
更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Eighty patients on a renal unit were interviewed to assess their psychiatric status and social functioning, and 68 survivors were re-interviewed one year later. Psychiatric disorders, which were mainly mood disorders, were inversely related to duration of treatment, and had reduced considerably at follow-up. Social di...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0022-3999(87)90002-x
更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Depression increases the risk of cardiac mortality and morbidity in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD), but the mechanisms that underlie this association remain unclear. This review considers the evidence for several behavioral and physiological mechanisms that might explain how depression increases the risk f...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0022-3999(02)00311-2
更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:In order to evaluate the relationship between women's subjective emotional discomfort with anger and cardiovascular responses to stress, cardiovascular and affective responses were examined during two anger-provoking conditions: one in which anger would be in self-defense, and one in which anger would be in d...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi：10.1016/s0022-3999(01)00217-3
更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:The multi-wave longitudinal study was to explore the underlying mechanisms between sleep disturbance and depressive symptoms for up to 9.5 months among student nurses and to examine whether emotional exhaustion and sleep-related worry could be the mediators. METHODS:856 student nurses aged 15-24 years (mean ...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpsychores.2019.109870
更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi：10.1016/0022-3999(82)90036-8
更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:There is a concern about negative cognitive effects of systemic chemotherapy. We prospectively explored self-reported cognitive problems in testicular cancer patients (TCPs) treated with and without chemotherapy. METHODS:One hundred and twenty-two TCPs were interviewed about concentration and memory problems...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpsychores.2010.12.004
更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:To date, few results on well-being in chronic-pain patients have been published, while several studies in patients without pain have indicated that well-being may not be equivalent to absence of psychological distress. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between psychological dist...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpsychores.2007.09.005
更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine how and under which conditions psoriasis is related to the psychological impairments, in particular, to social anxiety and depression, the current study tested the interplay of selected factors such as gender, age of onset of psoriasis, cognitive and affective elements of body image, experiences ...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpsychores.2017.01.007
更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This study is an attempt to investigate the efficacy of an outpatient cognitive behavioural group programme for the rehabilitation of patients with chronic pain. The programme, which took place over one afternoon per week for seven weeks and was conducted by a multidisciplinary team, aimed to increase patients' skills...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0022-3999(90)90003-m
更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This study investigated whether the level of somatic complaint increases as men make the supposedly stressful passage from work to retirement. For 171 retirees, pre- to post-retirement changes in the sum of selected somatic complaints from the Cornell Medical Index were compared with changes over a comparable time int...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0022-3999(83)90110-1
更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A total of fifty-three female patients suffering from urinary urgency and urge incontinence completed a bladder re-training programme which comprised behavioural and biofeedback treatment components. The psychological status of patients prior to treatment and at eighteen-month follow-up was compared. The role of clini...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0022-3999(86)90103-0
更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The pattern of complaints of patients with the hyperventilation syndrome (HVS) was studied on the basis of the Nijmegen HVS Questionnaire (van Doorn, Colla, Folgering). This list was completed by 75 patients with the clinical diagnosis HVS. Non-metric principal components analysis (NMPCA) showed that the structure was...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0022-3999(85)90042-x
更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:No previous studies have investigated the psychiatric characteristics of patients with postherpetic neuralgia (PHN). Similarly, no studies have been performed on patients with different chronic somatic symptoms due to a defined medical disease to compare the characteristics of psychiatric morbidity associated...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0022-3999(99)00076-8
更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study is to examine whether mental vulnerability is a risk factor for the development of ischemic heart disease (IHD) after adjustment for well-established risk factors. METHODS:In three prospective cohort studies in Copenhagen County, Denmark, we recorded the level of mental vulnerabilit...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpsychores.2005.05.013
更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Seventy-five patients with recent-onset dyspepsia and endoscopically visible duodenal ulcer underwent psychological evaluation. Following ranitidine treatment, they were reinterviewed periodically for 12 to 76 months (mean 38.6). Ulcer symptoms were present during a mean of 14.9% of follow-up months. Patients did sign...
journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0022-3999(96)00196-1
更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00
