abstract：:Preference not to disclose information was investigated as a likely explanation for low rates of report of concerns in hypertensives. The research was designed to explore alternative explanations that have been provided by others. Two studies investigated the effect of situational contexts which provided low or high s...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Cumes-Rayner DP,Price J

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ethnic origins of patients consulting their general practitioners (GP) were determined using criteria of country of birth, religion and preferred language. Three samples with preferred languages of English, Gujarati or Urdu were compared on a standardized interview with regard to symptom complaint, perception and ...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Bhatt A,Tomenson B,Benjamin S

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two very different assumptions about the principles of blood pressure reactivity lead to quite different notions about hypertensive/normotensive behaviour. Both are referred to as the Law of Initial Value (LIV). Subsequent confusion about blood pressure reactivity vs resting level partly explains a number of inconsist...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Cumes-Rayner DP,Price J

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that type A behaviour is associated with greater pressor response to stress was tested in a representative sample of 114 men aged 30-65 yr. Jenkins Activity Survey, Framingham and Bortner type A scores were related to blood pressure and heart rate under rest, serial reaction time, mental arithmetic, and...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Gallacher JE,Beswick AD,Jones DM,Turkington EE

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of research suggests that a cancer diagnosis reverberates throughout the family system. The majority of studies provide evidence of the psychological distress experienced by family members at the time of diagnosis and during terminal and early bereavement stages. Increasingly, however, patients survive ...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Ell K,Nishimoto R,Mantell J,Hamovitch M

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the original behavioural treatment have been studied exhaustively and the limits of this very useful approach have been delineated. Further developments have largely come from combining it with other modes of treatment or from delivering it in more intensive ways. The knowledge base has been limited to ...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Bennett GA

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of a post myocardial infarction education programme was assessed by comparing the increase in knowledge of patients and spouses about CHD in two hospitals, one (A) with and the other (B) without such a programme. Subjects completed the same two questionnaires twice, once within 4 days of admission and again...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Christie D,Logan R,Lake J,Dutch J

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty pregnant women with raised serum alpha fetoprotein (AFP) were interviewed before and after they received real-time ultrasound scanning to further diagnose fetal abnormalities. Thirty pregnant mothers receiving routine ultrasound scanning for dates served as the controls. The 'at risk' group were more anxious an...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Tsoi MM,Hunter M,Pearce M,Chudleigh P,Campbell S

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a measure of bulimia (BULIT) that has demonstrated validity and reliability, the prevalence of bulimia among three samples of college females was found to range from 2.0 to 3.8%. These percentages are substantially lower than most previous reports would suggest. Factor analysis of the BULIT data revealed that th...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Thelen MH,Mann LM,Pruitt J,Smith M

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation of stress and family environment to symptom severity in children with atopic dermatitis (AD) was examined. Forty-four children with severe AD and their families completed questionnaires measuring life events, chronic everyday problems and family environment. Measures of symptom severity were collected dur...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Gil KM,Keefe FJ,Sampson HA,McCaskill CC,Rodin J,Crisson JE

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to explore hypochondriacal concerns in patients with Chronic Airflow Obstruction (CAO) the authors administered the Illness Attitude Scales and the somatization, anxiety, depression and anger-hostility scales of the Hopkins Symptom Checklist to 50 patients with CAO and to matched family practice patients. Som...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Kellner R,Samet JM,Pathak D

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty eight children and adolescents between the ages of 10 and 17 years were examined for an association between diabetic control and psychological health determined by questionnaires to examine self concept, locus of control and family cohesion and adaptability. The group as a whole had a high score on the self est...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Evans CL,Hughes IA

更新日期：1987-01-01 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

authors： House A

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The predictive validity of subjects' self-reports of the severity of four groups of symptoms associated with the premenstrual syndrome (PMS) was assessed by canonical correlation of retrospective self-reports of usual symptom severities with prospectively obtained symptom severity scores from the next two cycles. Pros...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Hart WG,Coleman GJ,Russell JW

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation sought to determine whether medical patients facing life-threatening illnesses (i.e. cancer, myocardial infarction) differed in their coping responses from medical patients facing nonlife-threatening illnesses (e.g. arthritis, dermatitis). Subjects' coping responses were measured by a Medical Coping...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Feifel H,Strack S,Nagy VT

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a sample of consecutive ulcer (DU) patients and age, sex and social class matched normal controls, the prevalence of antecedent stressful life events in the two samples was similar. Antecedent chronic difficulties often lasting years were however significantly more common in the ulcer patients. Duodenal ulcer was m...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Gilligan I,Fung L,Piper DW,Tennant C

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substantial numbers of patients suffer from chronic back pain without demonstrating identifiable organic pathology of the spine. Since standardized methods of assessing psychological disturbances (e.g. MMPI) in such patients often provoke hostility and resentment, a questionnaire (BPCS) was developed which employs ver...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Biedermann HJ,Monga TN,Shanks GL,McGhie A

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) was administered to 268 subjects following electrical stimulation to pain-tolerance limits. Subjects received stimulation under four social modeling conditions: tolerant, intolerant, control, and no model. The number of factors and degree of obliqueness most appropriate for the MPQ ...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Crockett DJ,Prkachin KM,Craig KD,Greenstein H

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic pain may be non-organic and also may be non-psychogenic as well. This report pertains to the socio-demographic, clinical, psychometric description and follow-up of 21 such cases. Though these are not different from psychogenic pain disorder as regards clinical presentation, idiopathic pain is more often observ...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Chaturvedi SK

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the effects of exercise training programs on psychosocial improvement in uncomplicated postmyocardial infarction patients, 210 male patients hospitalized for an acute myocardial infarction (MI) were randomized to three week symptom limited treadmill (TM) plus home exercise training, TM plus medically supe...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Taylor CB,Houston-Miller N,Ahn DK,Haskell W,DeBusk RF

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current report introduces the Psychosocial Adjustment to Illness Scale (PAIS) and its self-report version the PAIS-SR. The PAIS is a multi-dimensional, semi-structured clinical interview designed to assess the psychological and social adjustment of medical patients, or members of their immediate families, to the p...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Derogatis LR

更新日期：1986-01-01 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

authors： Oldenburg B,Millard RJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a general health survey of a small New Zealand town, the Crow-Crisp Experiential Index, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, a shortened version of the Hostility and Direction of Hostility Questionnaire, and the Zung Self-rating Depression Scale were administered to 1173 subjects over the age of 15. Blood pre...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Waal-Manning HJ,Knight RG,Spears GF,Paulin JM

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 28-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) was validated against the PSE-derived Index of Definition in a sample of amputees with long-standing phantom and stump pain attending a Limb Fitting Centre. This form of the GHQ is a sensitive identifier of overt psychiatric disorder in this setting. ...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Lindesay J

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the relation of the Type A scale and of the three factors of the Jenkins Activity Survey to the cardiovascular responses of twenty-six subjects during two stressful tasks. The two tasks were reaction time (RT) and paced arithmetic (PA) and the sample was drawn from a general medical practice. While...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Goldstein HS,Edelberg R,Meier CF,Orzano JA,Blaufuss L

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the construction of a questionnaire to measure three dimensions of human eating behavior. The first step was a collation of items from two existing questionnaires that measure the related concepts of 'restrained eating' and 'latent obesity', to which were added items newly written to elucidate th...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Stunkard AJ,Messick S

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simultaneous monitoring of penile diameter and penile arterial pulse during laboratory-based erotic stimulation with film and fantasy, has been used to compare diabetic and non-diabetic impotent men with non-impotent controls. The degree of erection to erotic film distinguished between organic and psychogenic aetiolog...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Bancroft J,Bell C,Ewing DJ,McCulloch DK,Warner P,Clarke BF

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the resistance resources of personality hardiness, exercise, and social support, taken singly and in combination, on concurrent and prospective levels, and probability of illness were studied. In 1980, 85 male business executives identified as high in stressful events were tested for the three resistanc...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Kobasa SC,Maddi SR,Puccetti MC,Zola MA

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the benefits produced by "Superstuff", a self-help program for asthmatic children aged 7-12. Forty-three children with a confirmed diagnosis of moderate to severe asthma were randomly assigned to either the totally self-administered Superstuff condition or to a nocontact Control condition. Self-re...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Rakos RF,Grodek MV,Mack KK

更新日期：1985-01-01 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

authors： van Dixhoorn J,Duivenvoorden HJ

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date therefore, no consistent hormonal abnormality has been linked with premenstrual affective, physical or behavioural changes and, in turn, no consistent adverse behaviour has been positively linked with any particular menstrual cycle phase. At the same time, the proportion of actively menstruating women reported...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Clare AW

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychological responses to a diagnosis of breast cancer, assessed three months post operatively, are related to outcome 10 yr after operation. These results confirm the findings previously reported at 5 yr. The need for further study into the nature of the reported psychological response categories and the likely medi...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Pettingale KW

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-seven patients hospitalized for cardiac disorders were classified by cluster analysis in four groups based on their patterns of perception of health during the first year of recovery. Striking differences were found in the four patterns obtained. The groups were compared for variables of demographic background,...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Hiatt DP,Peglar M,Borgen FH

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a retrospective study as part of a larger study 419 male patients with bronchial carcinoma were questioned by means of a 'biographical questionnaire' concerning their life history, their personality, and their approach to life. Furthermore questions with regard to their smoking habits (tobacco smoke condensate expo...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Blohmke M,von Engelhardt B,Stelzer O

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 42 chronic temporomandibular joint pain patients completed behavioral therapy for their pain. The role of clinical, sociodemographic, and psychosocial factors was examined in relation to treatment outcome (immediately following treatment and at 2-yr follow-up). Psychosocial factors were better predictors of...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Gale EN,Funch DP

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review examines the literature on psychological reactions, often referred to as 'compensation neurosis', which occur after an accident and which are thought to be produced or maintained by a compensation claim. Theories and research are examined. The area is complicated and research so far is limited in scope and...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Weighill VE

更新日期：1983-01-01 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

authors： Ekerdt DJ,Bosse R,Goldie C

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

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

authors： Paykel ES

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes three atypical wave forms observed in temporal artery pulse amplitude recordings. Analysis of concurrent EMG records showed that two of these wave forms, spikes and spasms, were associated with muscle changes and may be regarded as artefacts. The third wave form, double peak, was not associated wi...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Morley S,Hunter M

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerophagia has been shown to occur in association with hiatus hernia, and it has been suggested that it may have an aetiological role. Two behavioural methods are described, which are designed to reduce the rate of swallowing. They were applied to a group of 12 patients with hiatus hernia, in whom aerophagia had been ...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Calloway SP,Fonagy P,Pounder RE,Morgan MJ

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00