Chronic psychological stress is a risk factor for osteoporosis. Maternal active mastication during prenatal stress attenuates stress response. The aim of this study is to test the hypothesis that maternal active mastication influences the effect of prenatal stress on bone mass and bone microstructure in adult offspring. Pregnant ddY mice were randomly divided into control, stress, and stress/ch...

BACKGROUND It is a struggle to identify the most adaptive coping strategies with disease-mediated stress. Here, we hypothesize that intensity of coping strategies, including denial, in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), varies with type of renal replacement therapy (RRT). MATERIAL AND METHODS We enrolled 60 in-center hemodialyzed patients (HD) and 55 patients treated with continuou...

BACKGROUND Men and women use a variety of coping strategies to manage stress associated with infertility. Although previous research has helped us understand these coping processes, questions remain about gender differences in coping and the nature of the relationship between coping and specific types of infertility stress. METHODS This study examined the coping behaviours of 1026 (520 women,...

Relationships between anxiety, social support, coping, and defence, in connection to mental health, were studied among patients with suspected breast cancer, awaiting diagnosis. Data were collected by questionnaires from 117 women, 25-76 years of age (mean: 53.6 years) who had undergone breast biopsy. Instruments used were: the Social Provisions Scale (SPS); the state scale of State-Trait Anxie...

background: infertility is described nearly universally as an extremely stressful condition with enduring effects on the marriage as well as each partner’s well-being. the present study was done to compare stress reactions, coping styles, subjective well-being and its sub-scales in fertile and infertile women. materials and methods : this analytic cross-sectional study enrolled 120 women (60 fe...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of stress coping capacity in combination with mode of anaesthesia on postoperative recovery in fast-track abdominal hysterectomy. DESIGN Prospective longitudinal study. SETTING Five hospitals in the south-east of Sweden. POPULATION A cohort of 162 women undergoing fast-track abdominal hysterectomy for benign conditions. METHODS Self-administered question...

The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the multiple relationships between early maladaptive schemas, parenting styles and coping styles with anxiety. Therefore, a sample consisting of 200 students, from Islamic Azad University of Karaj, were selected by multistage cluster sampling method. The research instruments were Beck anxiety inventory (1988), short form of Young early ma...

The aim of this study was to examine the extent to which differences in risky sexual behavior (RSB) between males and females is mediated by their personality traits and coping styles. Participants were 180 first-year undergraduate students who were evaluated with the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ; Cloninger, 1987); the Multidimensional Coping Inventory (COPE; Carver, Scheier, &...