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Fear-related predictors of vasovagal symptoms during blood donation: it's in the bloodBlaine Ditto
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
J Behav Med 35:393-9. 2012..g., fears related to needles) were more common overall. Better understanding of the mechanisms of vasovagal reactions has both theoretical and clinical implications, such as improving means of coping with invasive medical procedures...- Relation between perceived blood loss and vasovagal symptoms in blood donorsBlaine Ditto
Laboratory for Cardiovascular Psychophysiology, Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Dr Penfield Ave, Montreal, QC, H3A 1B1, Canada
Clin Auton Res 22:113-6. 2012.... 
The effects of applied tension on symptoms in French-speaking blood donors: a randomized trialBlaine Ditto
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, PQ, Canada
Health Psychol 25:433-7. 2006..Among donors whose chairs were not reclined, participants in the treatment condition had significantly smaller heart rate reactions to blood donation than did those in the other conditions...- Vasovagal symptoms mediate the relationship between predonation anxiety and subsequent blood donation in female volunteersBlaine Ditto
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Transfusion 46:1006-10. 2006..Variations in predonation anxiety, however, may influence the donor's experience in several respects and might be related to the likelihood of subsequent donation even among those who do not report particularly high levels of anxiety... - Short-term autonomic and cardiovascular effects of mindfulness body scan meditationBlaine Ditto
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Ann Behav Med 32:227-34. 2006..Recent research suggests that the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program has positive effects on health, but little is known about the immediate physiological effects of different components of the program... - Dismantling applied tension: mechanisms of a treatment to reduce blood donation-related symptomsBlaine Ditto
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Transfusion 47:2217-22. 2007..The muscle tensing technique of applied tension (AT) reduced symptoms in several studies... - Effects of applied muscle tension on the likelihood of blood donor returnBlaine Ditto
From the Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Transfusion 49:858-62. 2009..Blood donation-related symptoms such as dizziness and fainting are unpleasant for the donor and a significant disincentive for repeat donation. The muscle tensing technique of applied muscle tension reduced symptoms in several studies... - Effects of cardiopulmonary baroreceptor activation on pain may be moderated by risk for hypertensionBlaine Ditto
Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Dr Penfield Ave, Montreal, QC, H3A 1B1, Canada
Biol Psychol 82:195-197. 2009..Alteration of pain sensitivity may reflect the development of the hypertensive process... - Physiological correlates of applied tension may contribute to reduced fainting during medical proceduresBlaine Ditto
Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Dr Penfield Ave, Montreal, QC, H3A 1B1, Canada
Ann Behav Med 37:306-14. 2009..AT has been found to reduce dizziness and fainting in several studies of blood donors... - Negative association between resting blood pressure and chest pain in people undergoing exercise stress testing for coronary artery diseaseBlaine Ditto
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Pain 149:501-5. 2010..Awareness of the potential association between blood pressure and angina may provide patients with coronary artery disease and their physicians' important guidance... - Applied tension may help retain donors who are ambivalent about needlesB Ditto
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Vox Sang 98:e225-30. 2010..However, the effects of symptoms on donor retention as well as the effects of treatments to reduce vasovagal symptoms on donor retention are probably moderated by a person's confidence that they can tolerate the procedure... - Neuropsychological characteristics of adolescent boys differing in risk for high blood pressureBlaine Ditto
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B1, Canada
Ann Behav Med 31:231-7. 2006.... - On-site training in applied muscle tension to reduce vasovagal reactions to blood donationBlaine Ditto
Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Dr Penfield Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1B1
J Behav Med 26:53-65. 2003..It also significantly reduced the amount of medical treatment required (chair reclining) among those who practiced applied tension for the entire period they were in the donation chair... - Reducing reactions to blood donation with applied muscle tension: a randomized controlled trialBlaine Ditto
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Transfusion 43:1269-75. 2003..Unpleasant blood donation-related symptoms may discourage otherwise healthy, altruistic individuals from becoming repeat donors. This study examined a behavioral technique called applied muscle tension (AMT) that might reduce reactions... - Risk for hypertension and pain sensitivity in adolescent boysB Ditto
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Health Psychol 17:249-54. 1998..These findings could not be explained by personality factors and suggest that hypertension-related hypoalgesia is associated with processes involved in the development of the disorder... - Alexithymia, cardiovascular reactivity, and symptom reporting during blood donationNelson Byrne
Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Dr. Penfield Ave, Montreal, QC H3A 1B1, Canada
Psychosom Med 67:471-5. 2005.... - Age differences in the consistency of cardiovascular response patterns in healthy womenB Ditto
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Biol Psychol 25:23-31. 1987..Intraclass correlations computed using these matrices revealed greater consistency of response hierarchies (e.g., DBP greater than SBP greater than HR) among elderly subjects. Possible mechanisms for this effect are discussed... - Interpersonal behavior and resting blood pressure in college women: a daily monitoring studyB D'antono
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Psychosom Res 50:309-18. 2001..Psychological factors have long been implicated in the development of hypertension. Most studies exploring this relationship employed questionnaires administered on only one occasion... - On reversible deafness, generalized anxiety disorder, and the motoric brain: a psychophysiological perspectiveRobert B Malmo
Department of Psychiatry, Royal Victoria Hospital, Que, Montreal, Canada
Int J Psychophysiol 48:97-113. 2003..Also, with a focus on the motoric brain, some discoveries resulting from brain-recording experiments in freely moving rats are described... - Effects of opioid blockade on the modulation of pain and mood by sweet taste and blood pressure in young adultsMaxim D Lewkowski
Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Dr Penfield Avenue, Montreal, Canada
Pain 135:75-81. 2008..These results are consistent with findings suggesting that endogenous opioid activity may contribute to generally reduced pain sensitivity, and perhaps mood reactivity, in those with higher BP... - Familiality of heart rate and cardiac-related autonomic activity in five-month-old twins: the Québec newborn twins studyEtienne Dubreuil
Research Unit on Children s Psychosocial Maladjustment GRIP, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Psychophysiology 40:849-62. 2003..Estimates of relative LF and HF HRV were determined by common (familial) and unique environmental factors; familial influences on these estimates did not overlap with familial influences on sleeping HR... - Sweet taste and blood pressure-related analgesiaMaxim D Lewkowski
Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Dr Penfield Avenue, Montreal, Que, Canada H3A 1B1
Pain 106:181-6. 2003..Individuals with higher blood pressure may not be as sensitive to the presumably opioid-mediated analgesic effects of sweet taste, perhaps due to opioid dysregulation... - The role of ischaemia and pain in the blood pressure response to exercise stress testing in patients with coronary heart diseaseS L Bacon
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Hum Hypertens 20:672-8. 2006.... - Exaggeration of blood pressure-related hypoalgesia and reduction of blood pressure with low frequency transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulationTavis S Campbell
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Psychophysiology 39:473-81. 2002..These results provide further evidence that opioid mechanisms are involved in blood pressure-related hypoalgesia and blood pressure regulation... - A longitudinal study of pain sensitivity and blood pressure in adolescent boys: results from a 5-year follow-upTavis S Campbell
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Health Psychol 21:594-600. 2002..These analyses suggest that pain sensitivity may be associated with physiological processes involved in the development of sustained high blood pressure... - Adolescent pain sensitivity is associated with cardiac autonomic function and blood pressure over 8 yearsTavis S Campbell
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1B1, Canada
Hypertension 41:1228-33. 2003..These results provide further evidence that blood pressure related hypoalgesia might be related to processes involved in blood pressure regulation as well as in the development of sustained high blood pressure... - Chest pain is inversely associated with blood pressure during exercise among individuals being assessed for coronary heart diseaseBlaine Ditto
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Psychophysiology 44:183-8. 2007..Blood pressure may contribute to episodes of silent ischemia... - What is worse for asthma control and quality of life: depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, or both?Kim L Lavoie
Research Center, Division of Chest Medicine, J 3190, 5400 Gouin West, Montreal, QC, H4J 1C5, Canada
Chest 130:1039-47. 2006..This study evaluated the relative impact of having a DD and/or AD on asthma control and quality of life... - Prevalence, disclosure and interpretations of sexual activities in a sample of Canadian college-aged blood donorsM Mair
Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Dr Penfield Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1B1
Int J STD AIDS 14:399-403. 2003..These results are discussed with respect to their implications for how people think about sex, particularly in the blood donation context. Suggestions to improve specific blood donor screening questions are also presented... - The association between anxiety sensitivity and atopy in adult asthmaticsSilvana Barone
Research Center, Division of Chest Medicine, Hôpital du Sacré Coeur de Montréal a University of Montreal affiliated hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
J Behav Med 31:331-9. 2008..11, p = .014). There was no evidence for a significant association between any of the other questionnaire scores and atopic status... - Higher BMI is associated with worse asthma control and quality of life but not asthma severityKim L Lavoie
Research Center, Department of Chest Medicine, J 3190, Hopital du Sacre Coeur de Montreal, 5400 Gouin West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H4J 1C5
Respir Med 100:648-57. 2006..Results identify higher BMI and obesity as potential behavioral factors related to worse asthma control and quality of life, but not asthma severity, and suggest important avenues for asthma management and control initiatives... - Early socioeconomic status is associated with adult nighttime blood pressure dippingTavis S Campbell
Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4
Psychosom Med 70:276-81. 2008..Recent cross-sectional research has also linked low levels of SES with several cardiovascular risk factors including poor nighttime BP dipping... - Airflow and autonomic responses to stress and relaxation in asthma: the impact of stressor typeDavid Aboussafy
Respiratory Division, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Int J Psychophysiol 57:195-201. 2005.... - Mild reactions to blood donation predict a decreased likelihood of donor returnChristopher R France
Ohio University, 245 Porter Hall, Athens, OH 45701, USA
Transfus Apher Sci 30:17-22. 2004.... - Asthma self-efficacy, high frequency heart rate variability, and airflow obstruction during negative affect in daily lifeTavis S Campbell
Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada T2N 1N4
Int J Psychophysiol 62:109-14. 2006.... - Are psychiatric disorders associated with worse asthma control and quality of life in asthma patients?Kim L Lavoie
Research Center, Division of Chest Medicine, Hopital du Sacre Coeur de Montreal, J 3190, 5400 Gouin West, Montreal, Que, Canada H4J 1C5
Respir Med 99:1249-57. 2005..This study evaluated the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in 406 adult asthma patients, and associations between psychiatric status, levels of asthma control, and asthma-related quality of life... - Improving blood donor recruitment and retention: integrating theoretical advances from social and behavioral science research agendasEamonn Ferguson
Risk Analysis, Social Processes and Health RASPH Group, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Transfusion 47:1999-2010. 2007..This article aims to review both of these types of literature, examine theoretical developments, identify commonalities, and offer a means to integrate these within a single intervention approach...