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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"symptom clusters"”.
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Cancer Related Symptom Clusters
Research to examine the co-occurrence of symptoms, both disease-related and treatment related, in cancer patients is in the early stages of investigation. As more individuals survive cancer, the prevalence and consequences of psychological and physical symptom clusters are increasing, yet they are …
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Symptom Clusters in Lung Cancer Patients
SYMPTOM CLUSTERS IN LUNG CANCER PATIENTS By Debra Rattican, PhD, RN A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University. Virginia Commonwealth University, 2012 Major Director: Debra E. Lyon, PhD. Professor …
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PTSD symptom clusters : the relationship with types of traumas and cognitive ability
… a major trauma can lead to psychological symptoms known as PTSD. Even though the prevalence of experiencing traumatic events is considered as high as70%, subsequently developing PTSD has been found to be lower than 10%. To understand this relationship studies have focused on various …
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Investigating Racial and Ethnic Differences in Help-Seeking Recommendations and Intentions for Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Symptom Clusters
… health concerns such as posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS). Despite this elevated risk, REM populations consistently underutilize mental health services. Although several explanations have been proposed—including differences in symptom recognition, perceived need for care, cultural values, …
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Utilizing Retrospective Accounts of Primary Symptom-Clusters to Predict PTSD over Time in Women Survivors of Domestic or Sexual Assault
… theories in PTSD describe significant initial symptom reactions, and these reactions may provide opportunities for clearer early identification and treatment of PTSD. There are empirically identified trajectories of PTSD, which indicates there is a critical starting point to those trajectories. …
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The Symptom Experience of Patients Receiving Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Inhibitors
<p>This study explored the symptom experience of patients receiving epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors (EGFRIs) for breast, colon, head and neck, and colon cancer. EGFRIs are targeted therapies used at various points along the treatment continuum for these solid tumors, and may be first, …
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Secondary Traumatic Stress and Alexithymia in High-Risk Professionals
… demonstrated that alexithymia and alexithymia symptom clusters were significantly, and robustly, associated with STS and STS symptom clusters. Finally, hierarchal multiple regression analysis found that scores of alexithymia, pre-trauma exposure, predicted a significant amount of the variance …
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Cardiovascular Reactivity in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Depression
… measurement, and a lack of analyses of PTSD symptom clusters. The purpose of the present study was to examine if young civilian women (M ± SD = 29.89±7.33) with PTSD (n=17) demonstrate greater CVR than women with depression (n=12) or no mental illness controls (n=18), and to explore the …
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Sexual Harassment -Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Investigation of Symptom Structure and Criterion A
… re-experiencing, avoidance, and hyperarousal symptom clusters, but recent research suggests that a 4-factor model provides better model-data fit. Second, what constitutes a potential trauma (Criterion A1)? Does it need to be a high-magnitude event (e.g., rape), or can low-magnitude events …
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Specifying the Effects of an Online, Self-Help Couples' Intervention on PTSD Clusters and the Influence of Improvements in Relationship Satisfaction
… for the efficacy of CH in improving general PTSD symptoms and relationship satisfaction, but it is unclear which symptom clusters of PTSD are improving (i.e., intrusions, avoidance, cognitions and mood, and/or arousal). Moreover, there is a potent association between PTSD symptoms and relationship …
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Identifying Trauma Factors That Predict Suicide Specific Helplessness in Female Veterans with Chronic PTSD Resulting from Military Sexual Trauma
… Military Sexual Trauma (MST), and depressive symptoms to suicide specific hopelessness. It also examines specifically which of the PTSD symptom clusters is associated with this type of hopelessness along with the interaction of PTSD symptoms and suicide-specific hopelessness as it might relate …
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A Prospective Study of the Relationship between Peritraumatic Distress and Attentional Avoidance of Trauma-Relevant Threat in the Prediction of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
… within six hours of hospitalization, and PTSD symptom assessment was then conducted at 1- and 3-months post- trauma exposure. Primary analyses examined the role of attentional bias and peritraumatic distress in the development of PTSD symptoms, whereas secondary analyses explored the …
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The relationship between PTSD, hypervigilance and disordered sleep
… constitutes a major component of the presenting symptomatology. However, the literature on PTSD and sleep is characterized by discrepancies across studies, especially due to the fact that some use objective and some use subjective measures of sleep quality. As a result, disordered sleep and its …
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Distinct Diagnosis: Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
… C-PTSD are different in terms of etiology, symptoms, and response to treatment. They arise in response to different types of trauma, form distinct symptom clusters, and treatments specially suited to each disorder are most effective. Both clients and clinicians would benefit from the …
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The Influence of Cognitive, Affective, and Somatic Symptoms of Depression and Related Psychosocial Variables on Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Participation
… on CR participation. By examining specific symptom clusters of depression and related variables, such as negative illness cognitions and depressive behaviors, the relation between depression and CR participation can be more fully understood. Methods: 56 patients at a local CR center were …
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Biopsychosocial Models of the Development of Childhood Disruptive Behaviors
… outcomes are worse for youth exhibiting both symptom clusters relative to youth with only one disruptive behavior type. Despite ample evidence that HAP and CP share common etiological factors and maladaptive outcomes, the nature of their developmental association remains unclear. This …
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Assessing and remediating altered reinforcement learning in depression
… and neuroimaging were used to understand how symptom clusters of depression (anhedonia and negative affect) were related to neural and behavioral measures of learning (Study 1, in Paper 1), how these alterations changed with improvement in symptoms after cognitive behavioral therapy (Study 2, …
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The Mediational Role of Resource Loss between Residential Fire Exposure and Psychological Distress
… distress (as well as intrusion and avoidance symptom clusters). Additionally, total resource loss (a sum of the four types of resource loss) will be examined as a fifth potential mediator. The sample consists of 120 children (mean age = 12.31, SD = 2.83) exposed to residential fire who were …
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Living with military partners with PTSD. The phenomenon of secondary traumatization
… relationships. 2. Of the military partners’ PTSD symptom clusters, participants were mostly affected by avoidance and hyperarousal. 3. Participants, in general, were traumatised by their home experiences and this could be conceptualised as ST. 4. The most important element in ST development was …
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