OBJECTIVE To examine whether psychosocial factors play a more important role than biomedical risk factors in predicting adolescent adaptation to sickle cell disease (SCD); to determine whether psychosocial factors moderate the relationship between biomedical risk factors and adaptation. METHODS Ninety African American adolescents from the multisite Cooperative Study of Sickle Cell Disease wer...

Objective: To examine whether psychosocial factors play a more important role than biomedical risk factors in predicting adolescent adaptation to sickle cell disease (SCD) ; to determine whether psychosocial factors moderate the relationship between biomedical risk factors and adaptation. Methods: Ninety African American adolescents from the multisite Cooperative Study of Sickle Cell Disease we...

in this cross-sectional study, psychosocial factors were assessed in patients with duodenal ulcer (du) (n=20) and healthy subjects (n=20) matched for sex, age, and education. these factors were assessed during the active phase of du and again 3 months following the completion of medical treatment. the psychosocial factors included psychological distress symptoms, stressful life events, coping s...