The association between socioeconomic status (SES) and physical health is robust. Yet, the psychosocial mediators of SES-health association have been studied in relatively few investigations. In this chapter, we summarize and critique the recent literature regarding negative emotions and cognitions, psychological stress, and resources as potential pathways connecting SES and physical health. We...

In light of the increasing population living with a history of cancer in the United States, it is important to attend to quality of life and health in this group, and to develop effective interventions to address psychosocial and physical concerns across the course of the cancer trajectory. The goals of this article are to document the need for attention to psychosocial domains; offer a brief o...

UNLABELLED Theme: Parenting/parenthood. INTRODUCTION The diagnosis of complex CHD impacts the psychosocial status of parents and their functioning. PURPOSE A critical evaluation of the literature concerning the psychosocial parental response to their infant's diagnosis of complex CHD. METHODS Systematic review of 18 articles published after 2000 in PubMed and CINAHL. RESULTS The impact ...

The Nethersole School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong Chronic wounds are health problems that affect elderly patients as well as health care professionals. Its chronicity, together with its high recurrence rate, creates not only a big challenge to nurses' workload and health cost, but also has a direct impact on elderly pa...

Numerous studies have demonstrated that there exists a strong and consistent association of several psychosocial factors and CHD. More consistent and reproducible outcome studies confirm that psychosocial risk factors such as depression, chronic anxiety, personality type D, anger, hostility and low socioeconomic status, represent potent CHD risk factors. The psychosocial risk factors also adver...

BACKGROUND Subjective health status is an increasingly important parameter to assess the effect of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in clinical practice. Aim of this study was to determine medical and psychosocial predictors of poor subjective health status over a 10 years' post-PCI period. METHODS We included a series of consecutive PCI patients (n = 573) as part of the RESEARCH regi...

Researchers have theorized that social and psychosocial factors increase vulnerability to the deleterious health effects of environmental hazards. We used baseline examination data (2000-2002) from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Participants were 45-84 years of age and free of clinical cardiovascular disease at enrollment (n = 6814). The modifying role of social and psychosocial fac...

BACKGROUND Hemodialysis patients experience a high degree of psychosocial impairment. METHODS The psychosocial status of hemodialysis patients after Hurricane Katrina was evaluated using the Hurricane Coping Self-Efficacy (HCSE) measure, the Short Form-12 Health Survey (physical component summary [PCS] and mental component summary [MCS]), and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Short Depress...

OBJECTIVE To assess the physiological and psychosocial effects of exercise training in chronic heart failure. SUBJECTS/PATIENTS Twenty-six men with heart failure (New York Heart Association functional classes II and III) aged 52.5 (SD 9.8) years, were studied. METHODS The subjects were randomized either to rehabilitation group (Group A: 16 patients), participating in a 6-month exercise trai...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the relationship of psychosocial factors and health behaviors to frequent dieting and purging behaviors in Native American adolescent boys and girls. DESIGN School-based health survey. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A total sample of 13 454 Native American youth in grades 7 through 12 living on or near reservations from eight Indian Health Service areas completed a s...