Sentences with phrase «psychosocial stress in»

Evidence for a normal HPA axis response to psychosocial stress in patients remitted from depression

The cortisol response to psychosocial stress in women at risk for depression (Doctoral dissertation, Vanderbilt University)

The Questionnaire on Stress in Cancer Patients revised version QSC - R23 is a disease - specific questionnaire for the assessment of psychosocial stress in cancer patients.

Gender differences in automatic thoughts and cortisol and alpha - amylase responses to acute psychosocial stress in patients with obsessive - compulsive personality disorder.

Scientists from the University of Granada and the School for Special Education San Rafael have proven that blue lighting hastens relaxation after acute psychosocial stress in comparison with conventional white lighting.

DHEA and DHEA - S response to acute psychosocial stress in healthy men and women.

Psychosocial stress in adulthood is associated with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes, possibly mediated by behavioral and physiological factors.

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Acute Psychosocial Stress Reduces Cell Survival in Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis without Altering Proliferation.

I present on and teach a broad range of topics and classes; among them stress in adoption, attachment, adjustment, psychosocial development, core issues, Tweens, Teens & Beyond, infertility to adoption, transracial parenting, becoming parents, trauma, and how to support the family who has adopted.

Values were derived from regressing T on daily paternal caregiving, controlling for time of saliva collection, usual wake time (AM), sleep quality, psychosocial stress, and number of children, with fathers who reported no involvement in childcare as the comparison group.

Although all new fathers, regardless of their youngest child's age, experienced a significant reduction in AM and / or PM T compared with nonfathers (Fig. 2 and Tables S5 and S6), fathers with newborns (1 mo old or less) at the time of follow - up hormone assessment showed significantly greater declines in AM (P = 0.023) and PM (P = 0.003) T compared with fathers whose youngest child was older than 1 y of age, which was not accounted for by reports of psychosocial stress, sleep quality, or involvement in caregiving (Tables S7 and S8).

Values are adjusted for time of saliva collection and usual wake time (AM) and are derived from regressing the change in T on fatherhood, stratified by child age, with men who were not fathers in 2005 and 2009 as the comparison group, and controlling for sleep quality and psychosocial stress (Tables S5 and S6).

The findings underscore the importance of intervening early to address behavior issues in children to prevent psychosocial stress and shortening of telomeres.

The authors conclude: «These findings suggest that psychosocial function and ability to cope with stress may play an important long - term role in aetiological pathways for type 2 diabetes.

Instead, the growing consensus is that the health risks of low status are due in part to the chronic psychosocial stress of the rat race itself, and of perceived social subordination, whether by other individuals or by institutions.

«It is telling that even in modern large - scale societies the status comparisons most consequential for psychosocial stress are typically among individuals who are in close geographic proximity or who occupy the same social network rather than between individuals at opposite ends of the socioeconomic spectrum.

In this context, it has to be emphasized that psychosocial risk factors and stress consist of economic, environmental, and behavioral components.

Scientists have long known that chronic exposure to psychosocial stress early in life can lead to an increased vulnerability later in life to diseases linked to immune dysfunction and chronic inflammation.

Mouse psychosocial stress reduces motivation and cognitive function in operant reward tests: A model for reward pathology with effects of agomelatine.

Block, J.P., et al., «Psychosocial Stress and Change in Weight Among U.S. Adults,» American Journal of Epidemiology 170 (2009): 181 - 192.

The adult age - related clinical syndrome of growth hormone deficiency includes increased fat mass, decreased muscle mass and strength, decreased bone density, elevated lipids, insulin resistance, decreased psychosocial well - being and depression, fatigue, increased social isolation, inability to handle stress, cardiovascular disease, memory decline, overall deterioration in quality of life, frailty, thin dry skin, increased wrinkles, and diminished exercise tolerance.

Studies have shown that cadets in combat training supplementing with L - Tyrosine had reduced negative effects from physical and psychosocial stress on mental performance.

One team of researchers, Louks and Thurma, quantified the amount of energy restricted (absent of psychosocial stress *) needed to impact GnRH release in normally menstruating women.

There are also the issues of inflammation and stress that arises from exercise, as well as psychosocial stress — all of which build upon each other in the complex interactions between the HPA axis and the body at large.

In this document they have identified the six key psychosocial risk factors which can cause work ‑ related stress.

BACKGROUND Children in northern Uganda have undergone significant psychosocial stress during the region's lengthy conflict.

Some recent examples include using Facebook to predict riots, comparing the use of Facebook with body image concern in adolescent girls and investigating whether Facebook can lower levels of stress responses, with research suggesting that it may enhance and undermine psychosocial constructs related to well - being.

It has been hypothesized that the high prevalence of negative school behaviors is in part due to greater exposure to chronic psychosocial stress, e.g., inadequate economic resources, family disintegration, information overload, media violence [8 — 11].

Considering this, the aim of this study was to determine the association between the psychosocial factors at work and occupational stress in gas station attendants in Ecuador.

Considering this, the aim of this research was to determine the association between the psychosocial factors at work and occupational stress in gas station attendants in Ecuador.

Children who remained in institutional care exhibited significantly blunted SNS and HPA axis responses to psychosocial stress compared with children randomized to foster care, whose stress responses approximated those of typically developing children.

Random assignment to high - quality family care following institutionalization mitigates otherwise persistent effects of early psychosocial deprivation on the functioning of stress response systems in children.

As identified in stress process models (see example of Pearlin et al9), personal resources moderate the psychosocial impact or strain related to caregiving.

Objective To understand why children exposed to adverse psychosocial experiences are at elevated risk for age - related disease, such as cardiovascular disease, by testing whether adverse childhood experiences predict enduring abnormalities in stress - sensitive biological systems, namely, the nervous, immune, and endocrine / metabolic systems.

Caregiver - focused groups were rated as providing skills such as information and support that reduced the negative appraisal of caregiving, decreased uncertainty and lessened hopelessness, while also teaching skills to cope with the stresses of caregiving.66 This supports suggestions that such groups might give caregivers the chance to openly interact with other caregivers in the absence of their care recipients.57 Moreover, in a systematic review of psychosocial interventions, group based or otherwise, caregivers listed the most useful aspect of interventions as regular interactions with a professional, providing the chance to openly communicate issues with them, and as a time to talk about feelings and questions related to cancer.13, 66

As the Adverse Childhood Experience Study score increased, so did the number of risk factors for the leading causes of death.16, 17 Shonkoff uses the phrase «toxic stress» to describe high cumulative psychosocial risk in the absence of supportive caregiving18, 19; this type of unremitting stress ultimately compromises children's ability to regulate their stress response system effectively and can lead to adverse long - term structural and functional changes in the brain and elsewhere in the body.

The study investigates whether among some adolescents with asthma, psychosocial stress induces a shift in immunity that supports inflammatory processes in the lungs, and whether the degree of immune change is associated with the degree of stress experienced by the subject.

Membership in a single - parent family or stepfamily is associated with increased levels of significant behavioral, emotional, and academic problems in children.1, 2 The mechanisms underlying this connection are likely to involve, among other factors, financial adversity, increased stress directly related to family transitions, and increased exposure to additional psychosocial risks.3, 4 Compared with the extensive research base connecting family type (ie, membership in a 2 - parent biological family, stepfamily, or single - parent family) and children's psychological adjustment, little is known about the physical health consequences of membership in diverse family types.

There are well - documented associations between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and intimate relationship problems, including relationship distress and aggression, 1 and studies demonstrate that the presence of PTSD symptoms in one partner is associated with caregiver burden and psychological distress in the other partner.2 Although currently available individual psychotherapies for PTSD produce overall improvements in psychosocial functioning, these improvements are not specifically found in intimate relationship functioning.3 Moreover, it has been shown that even when patients receive state - of - the - art individual psychotherapy for the disorder, negative interpersonal relations predict worse treatment outcomes.4, 5

OBJECTIVES: To examine the prenatal and postnatal mechanisms by which maternal adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) predict the early development of their offspring, specifically via biological (maternal health risk in pregnancy, infant health risk at birth) and psychosocial risk (maternal stress during and after pregnancy, as well as hostile behavior in early infancy).

Personality, stress and coping in extreme environments, psychosocial aspects in disaster response and management, psychosocial factors in space missions, thermal control of astronaut status

For example, N - acetyl cysteine, a mitochondrial agent, has been shown to improve depressive symptoms by alleviating oxidative stress in the brain.47 This may improve long - term cognitive, psychosocial and functional impairment.

Workload, in particular tight deadlines, too much work and too much pressure or responsibility, a lack of managerial support, organisational changes at work, violence and role uncertainty are identified causes of work - related stress.1 These factors are antecedents of sickness presenteeism which is mediated by mental and physical health.2 At the individual level, chronic stress produces long - term deleterious effects in health, namely, cardiovascular diseases, 3 burn - out, anxiety and depression.4 Sickness absence in Europe is associated with psychosocial work factors.5 The link between work performance, stress and health poses an important challenge to workers, employers and organisations in general, as stress should be monitored and mitigation measures implemented accordingly.6

Abstract: This literature review explores women in management and how the psychosocial factors they face in the workplace affect their job - related stress level.

The results show associations between work - related perceived stress and trapezius muscle activity and rest during standardized simulated computer work, and provide partial empirical support for the hypothesized pathway of stress induced muscle activity in the association between an adverse psychosocial work environment and musculoskeletal symptoms in the neck and shoulder.

The sample consisted of 16,144 individuals at a variety of different organisations in Sweden, who had responded to a questionnaire covering different psychosocial and psychological stress factors («the Stress Profile&rastress factors («the Stress Profile&raStress Profile»).

Dr. Gaylord - Harden's research interests focus on stress, coping, and psychosocial functioning in African American youth and families in high - risk contexts.

The «practice of clinical social work» is defined as the use of scientific and applied knowledge, theories, and methods for the purpose of describing, preventing, evaluating, and treating individual, couple, marital, family, or group behavior, based on the person - in - situation perspective of psychosocial development, normal and abnormal behavior, psychopathology, unconscious motivation, interpersonal relationships, environmental stress, differential assessment, differential planning, and data gathering.

«Preliminary efficacy of an intervention to reduce psychosocial stress and improve coping in low - income families.»

An intervention to reduce psychosocial and biological indicators of stress in African American lupus patients: The balancing lupus experiences with stress strategies study