Biopsychosocial mediators and moderators of stress-health relationships in patients with recently diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis

Dekkers, J. Caroline; Geenen, Rinie; Evers, Andrea W M; Kraaimaat, Floris W.; Bijlsma, J. W. J.; Godaert, G. L. R.

doi:10.1002/1529-0131(200108)45:4<307::aid-art342>3.0.co;2-0

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“…Generally, where chronic illness was experienced (Dekkers et al, 2001;Pakenham & Rinaldis, 2001), stress research has investigated buffers of stress in attempting to address factors that affect poor health outcomes. Furthermore, most of the stress-buffering models have studied how stress affected an outcome of physical disability instead of outcomes of well-being.…”

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Spirituality and Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors: Stress Counter-balancing Effects on the Well-being of Older Adults

2006

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The goal of this study was to examine stress-ameliorating effects of religiosity, spirituality, and healthy lifestyle behaviors on the stressful relationship of chronic illness and the subjective physical well-being of 221 older adults. We also investigated whether the intervening variables functioned as coping behaviors and orientations or as adaptations in late life. Guided by the stress paradigm, path analysis was used to assess these relationships in a stress suppressor model and a distress deterrent model. No suppressor effects were found; however a number of distress deterrent relationships were detected. Spirituality, physical activities, and healthy diet all contributed to higher subjective physical well-being, as counter-balancing effects, in the distress deterrent model. The findings have implications for future research on the role of spirituality, religiosity and lifestyle behaviors on the well-being of chronically ill older adults. Findings also support the need for studying different dimensions of religiosity and spirituality in an effort to understand coping versus adaptation in behaviors and orientations.

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Spirituality and Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors: Stress Counter-balancing Effects on the Well-being of Older Adults

2006

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“…Psychological distress as part of quality of life is recognized as an important treatment outcome [5,6]. RA patients have shown considerable individual differences regarding their trajectories of psychological distress over time [7].…”

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“…RA patients have shown considerable individual differences regarding their trajectories of psychological distress over time [7]. Not only disease activity influences psychological distress and quality of life, but these are at least as strongly influenced by psychological characteristics, such as coping styles and attitudes towards the disease and towards life in general [6,8]. For instance, an optimistic attitude has been found to be related to lower psychological distress in RA patients [9], and with fewer disease symptoms [10].…”

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Psychological distress across twelve months in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: The role of disease activity, disability, and mindfulness

Nyklı́ček

Hoogwegt

Westgeest

2015

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

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“…Vergleichbare Ergebnisse sind in einer neueren Studie zur JIA beschrieben worden (Literatur in [9]). Nur bei fünf von 32 Studien an ungefähr 150 Patienten mit RA hat sich die Verbindung zwischen leichtem Stress und Aufflammen der Krankheit nicht bestätigt [5,11]. Im Gegensatz dazu geht der anhaltende Majorstress, der durch eine ausgedehnte und lang anhaltende Stressachsenaktivität (großes Zeitintegral der Stressachsenhormone) gekennzeichnet sein dürfte, mit einer Abschwächung der Krankheitsaktivität einher.…”

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Stress, Hormone und neuronale Signale bei rheumatoider Arthritis

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Härle

2005

Med Klin

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This review demonstrates that hormonal and neuronal factors, which are released during stressful situations, can unfavorably influence the two chronic diseases of rheumatoid arthritis and juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Noradrenaline and cortisol are in the focus of this review. In the said two chronic inflammatory diseases, it is obvious that apart from the immune system also the endocrine and nervous system play an essential role in the stress-induced initiation and aggravation of these diseases.

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Biopsychosocial mediators and moderators of stress-health relationships in patients with recently diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis

Cited by 47 publications

References 37 publications

Spirituality and Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors: Stress Counter-balancing Effects on the Well-being of Older Adults

Spirituality and Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors: Stress Counter-balancing Effects on the Well-being of Older Adults

Psychological distress across twelve months in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: The role of disease activity, disability, and mindfulness

Stress, Hormone und neuronale Signale bei rheumatoider Arthritis

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