Comparison of two treatments for traumatic stress: a community-based study of EMDR and prolonged exposureG Ironson
Behavioral Medicine Program, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124 2070, USA
J Clin Psychol 58:113-28. 2002
..Postsession SUDS were significantly lower for EMDR than for PE. Suggestions for future research are discussed...
Plasma neuropeptide Y: a biomarker for symptom severity in chronic fatigue syndromeMARY A FLETCHER
Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, 1600 NW 10th Ave, Miami, FL USA
Behav Brain Funct 6:76. 2010
..Abnormalities in stress responses have been identified as potential triggers or mediators of CFS symptoms. This study focused on the stress mediator neuropeptide Y (NPY). We hypothesized that NPY would be a useful biomarker for CFS...
- The impact of improved self-efficacy on HIV viral load and distress in culturally diverse women living with AIDS: the SMART/EST Women's Project
G Ironson
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, PO Box 248185, Coral Gables, FL 33146, USA
AIDS Care 17:222-36. 2005
..Implications of the findings and suggestions for future research are discussed...
- Psychosocial factors predict CD4 and viral load change in men and women with human immunodeficiency virus in the era of highly active antiretroviral treatment
Gail Ironson
Department of Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33124 2070, USA
Psychosom Med 67:1013-21. 2005
..This study sought to determine whether psychosocial variables would predict both CD4 and VL changes in a diverse sample assessed entirely during the era of HAART and accounting for adherence effects...
- An increase in religiousness/spirituality occurs after HIV diagnosis and predicts slower disease progression over 4 years in people with HIV
Gail Ironson
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:S62-8. 2006
..However, confronting a major medical crisis may be a time when people turn to the sacred...
- Personality and HIV disease progression: role of NEO-PI-R openness, extraversion, and profiles of engagement
Gail H Ironson
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, P O Box 248185, Coral Gables, FL 33124 2070, USA
Psychosom Med 70:245-53. 2008
..The examination of psychosocial predictors of disease progression in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has focused primarily on depression, coping, and stress, with little attention paid to stable individual differences...
- Do positive psychosocial factors predict disease progression in HIV-1? A review of the evidence
Gail Ironson
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, P O Box 248185, Coral Gables, FL 33124 2070, USA
Psychosom Med 70:546-54. 2008
..In conclusion, investigating the importance and usefulness of positive psychosocial factors in predicting disease progression in HIV is in its beginning scientific stages and shows good initial evidence and future promise...
- Spiritual transformation, psychological well-being, health, and survival in people with HIV
Gail Ironson
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33124, USA
Int J Psychiatry Med 39:263-81. 2009
..Our study attempts to fill this gap...
View of God as benevolent and forgiving or punishing and judgmental predicts HIV disease progressionGail Ironson
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33146, USA
J Behav Med 34:414-25. 2011
..Results remained significant even after adjusting for church attendance and psychosocial variables (health behaviors, mood, and coping). These results provide good initial evidence that spiritual beliefs may predict health outcomes...
- The Ironson-woods Spirituality/Religiousness Index is associated with long survival, health behaviors, less distress, and low cortisol in people with HIV/AIDS
Gail Ironson
Department of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124 2070, USA
Ann Behav Med 24:34-48. 2002
..Further analyses were conducted, which identified urinary cortisol concentrations and altruistic behavior as mediators of the relation between SR and long survival...
- Perceived stress and norepinephrine predict the effectiveness of response to protease inhibitors in HIV
Gail Ironson
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124 2070, USA
Int J Behav Med 15:221-6. 2008
..In vitro evidence has suggested that increasing levels of norepinephrine (NE) can accelerate HIV replication; however, the importance in a clinical setting has not been tested...
- Reductions in depressed mood and denial coping during cognitive behavioral stress management with HIV-Positive gay men treated with HAART
Adam W Carrico
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, USA
Ann Behav Med 31:155-64. 2006
..CBSM+MAT addresses this potentially detrimental pattern by teaching stress reduction skills that may decrease depressed mood via reduced reliance on denial coping...
- Conscientiousness predicts disease progression (CD4 number and viral load) in people living with HIV
Gail Ironson
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33124 2070, USA
Health Psychol 26:473-80. 2007
..The study also examined whether Conscientiousness effects were mediated by adherence, perceived stress, depression, or coping measures...
- A path model of the effects of spirituality on depressive symptoms and 24-h urinary-free cortisol in HIV-positive persons
Adam W Carrico
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33146, USA
J Psychosom Res 61:51-8. 2006
..CONCLUSION: Positive reappraisal coping and benefit finding may co-mediate the effect of spirituality on depressive symptoms, and benefit finding may uniquely explain the effect of spirituality on 24-h cortisol output...
- Increases in a marker of immune system reconstitution are predated by decreases in 24-h urinary cortisol output and depressed mood during a 10-week stress management intervention in symptomatic HIV-infected men
Michael H Antoni
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33146, USA
J Psychosom Res 58:3-13. 2005
..Here, we tested whether reductions in urinary cortisol output and depressed mood during the 10-week CBSM intervention period mediated its effects on this immune system reconstitution marker at follow-up...
- Randomized clinical trial of cognitive behavioral stress management on human immunodeficiency virus viral load in gay men treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy
Michael H Antoni
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
Psychosom Med 68:143-51. 2006
..We tested whether a cognitive behavioral stress management (CBSM) intervention in combination with antiretroviral medication adherence training (MAT) from a clinical pharmacist influences HIV viral load more than MAT alone...
- Natural killer cells and lymphocytes increase in women with breast cancer following massage therapy
Maria Hernandez-Reif
Touch Research Institutes, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33101, USA
Int J Neurosci 115:495-510. 2005
..These findings highlight the benefit of these complementary therapies, most particularly massage therapy, for women with breast cancer...
- Life stress and cervical squamous intraepithelial lesions in women with human papillomavirus and human immunodeficiency virus
Deidre Byrnes Pereira
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 32610 0165, USA
Psychosom Med 65:427-34. 2003
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- A stress and coping model of medication adherence and viral load in HIV-positive men and women on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART)
Kathryn E Weaver
Department of Psychology and Behavioral Medicine Research Center, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33134, USA
Health Psychol 24:385-92. 2005
..This model advances researchers' understanding of the contribution of psychosocial variables in predicting treatment adherence and disease progression in HIV-positive men and women...
- Dispositional optimism and the mechanisms by which it predicts slower disease progression in HIV: proactive behavior, avoidant coping, and depression
Gail Ironson
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124 2070
Int J Behav Med 12:86-97. 2005
..Thus, optimists may reap health benefits partly through behavioral (proactive behavior), cognitive (avoidant coping), and affective (depression) pathways. Implications, limitations, and interpretations are discussed...
- Social support, positive states of mind, and HIV treatment adherence in men and women living with HIV/AIDS
Jeffrey S Gonzalez
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33134, USA
Health Psychol 23:413-8. 2004
..PSOM partially mediated the relationship between social support and adherence. PSOM may be an important mechanism through which social support is related to better medication adherence in this population...
- Written emotional disclosure and processing of trauma are associated with protected health status and immunity in people living with HIV/AIDS
CONALL O'CLEIRIGH
Department of Psychology, Psychiatry and Medicine, University of Miami, Florida, USA
Br J Health Psychol 13:81-4. 2008
..The study also examined the mediational role of emotional/cognitive processing and natural killer (NK) cells...
- To take or not to take: decision-making about antiretroviral treatment in people living with HIV/AIDS
Heidemarie Kremer
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 20:335-49. 2006
..HIV-positive individuals declining treatment place more weight on alternative medicine, avoiding adverse effects and perceiving a better quality of life through not taking ART...
- Everything changed: spiritual transformation in people with HIV
Heidemarie Kremer
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33124, USA
Int J Psychiatry Med 39:243-62. 2009
..This study examined types of ST, as well as its antecedents and consequences in people with HIV...
- Measuring the involvement of people with HIV in treatment decision making using the control preferences scale
Heidemarie Kremer
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 3324 2070, USA
Med Decis Making 28:899-908. 2008
..This study measures the involvement that HIV-positive people perceive in treatment decision making. A secondary objective is to assess the validity of the instrument used to examine decisional roles, the Control Preferences Scale (CPS)...
- Does distress tolerance moderate the impact of major life events on psychosocial variables and behaviors important in the management of HIV?
CONALL O'CLEIRIGH
University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
Behav Ther 38:314-23. 2007
..Distress tolerance assessment may help to specify targets for cognitive-behavioral and stress management treatments for people living with HIV...
- "It's my body'': does patient involvement in decision making reduce decisional conflict?
Heidemarie Kremer
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
Med Decis Making 27:522-32. 2007
..The congruence between desired and perceived decisional involvement was also related to decisional conflict...
- Psychosocial responses to treatment for breast cancer among lesbian and heterosexual women
Patricia L Arena
University of Miami, USA
Women Health 44:81-102. 2006
..Better understanding of the similarities and differences between groups will help address the relevant clinical issues appropriately, in order to optimize psychosocial adjustment to breast cancer. ...
- Perceived stress mediates the effects of coping on the quality of life of HIV-positive women on highly active antiretroviral therapy
Kathryn E Weaver
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33146, USA
AIDS Behav 8:175-83. 2004
..These relationships were both mediated by perceived stress. Results suggest that utilization of certain coping strategies may lessen or heighten perceptions of life stressfulness, thereby influencing QoL in this understudied population...
- Stress management and immune system reconstitution in symptomatic HIV-infected gay men over time: effects on transitional naive T cells (CD4(+)CD45RA(+)CD29(+))
Michael H Antoni
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA
Am J Psychiatry 159:143-5. 2002
..Changes in immunologic status were evaluated in 25 HIV-infected men randomly assigned to a 10-week stress management intervention or a wait-list control condition...
- Emotional expression and depth processing of trauma and their relation to long-term survival in patients with HIV/AIDS
CONALL O'CLEIRIGH
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA
J Psychosom Res 54:225-35. 2003
..A further purpose was to examine the immune, health behavior and psychosocial correlates of emotional disclosure and depth processing...
- People living with HIV: sources of information on antiretroviral treatment and preferences for involvement in treatment decision-making
Heidemarie Kremer
University of Miami, Department of Psychology, 1204 Dickinson Dr, Suite 37D, Coral Gables, FL 3324 2070, USA
Eur J Med Res 12:34-42. 2007
..This study reports on the sources of antiretroviral treatment information that are important to people living with HIV (PLWH) in treatment decision-making and their preferred role in treatment decision-making...
- Spiritual and mind-body beliefs as barriers and motivators to HIV-treatment decision-making and medication adherence? A qualitative study
Heidemarie Kremer
University of Miami, Department of Psychology, Behavioral Medicine Research Program, 1204 Dickinson Drive, Suite 37E, Coral Gables, FL 3324 2070, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 23:127-34. 2009
..Spiritual/mind-body beliefs as barriers or motivators to taking or adhering to treatment are important, since they may affect survival and quality of life of HIV-positive people...
- Sleep disturbance mediates the association between psychological distress and immune status among HIV-positive men and women on combination antiretroviral therapy
Dean G Cruess
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3815 Walnut Street, Philadelphia 19104 6196, USA
J Psychosom Res 54:185-9. 2003
..This study examined the relationship between psychological distress, subjective sleep disturbance and immune status among HIV-positive men and women...
- Cognitive-behavioral interventions improve quality of life in women with AIDS
Suzanne C Lechner
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, P O Box 248185, Coral Gables, FL 33124 2070, USA
J Psychosom Res 54:253-61. 2003
..The goal of this study was to examine treatment effects on total QOL and 11 QOL domains from baseline to post-intervention follow-up...
- Coping and psychological distress among symptomatic HIV+ men who have sex with men
Frank J Penedo
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33134, USA
Ann Behav Med 25:203-13. 2003
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- Stress as a predictor of symptomatic genital herpes virus recurrence in women with human immunodeficiency virus
Deidre Byrnes Pereira
University of Miami, Department of Psychology, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA
J Psychosom Res 54:237-44. 2003
..The purpose of this study was to determine whether stress was associated with symptomatic genital herpes recurrences in women seropositive for HIV and HSV-2...
- Stress and health: psychological, behavioral, and biological determinants
Neil Schneiderman
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33124 0751, USA
Annu Rev Clin Psychol 1:607-28. 2005
..e., genetics, constitutional factors), psychosocial resources, and learned patterns of coping. Psychosocial interventions have proven useful for treating stress-related disorders and may influence the course of chronic diseases...
- The impact of cognitive behavioral group training on event-free survival in patients with myocardial infarction: the ENRICHD experience
Patrice G Saab
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA
J Psychosom Res 67:45-56. 2009
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- Enhancing the health of women living with HIV: the SMART/EST Women's Project
Stephen M Weiss
University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
Int J Womens Health 3:63-77. 2011
..A third study (SWP III) is currently underway to "translate" this evidence-based treatment program into Community Health Centers in Miami, New York City, and metropolitan New Jersey...
- Gender-specific effects of an augmented written emotional disclosure intervention on posttraumatic, depressive, and HIV-disease-related outcomes: A randomized, controlled trial
Gail Ironson
Department of Psychology, University of Miami
J Consult Clin Psychol 81:284-98. 2013
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- Breast cancer patients have improved immune and neuroendocrine functions following massage therapy
Maria Hernandez-Reif
Touch Research Institutes, University of Miami School of Medicine, 1601 NW 12th Avenue, Room 7037, Miami, FL 33136, USA
J Psychosom Res 57:45-52. 2004
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- Health locus of control beliefs and healthy survival with AIDS
Rachel Ruffin
Department of Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124 2070, USA
Int J Behav Med 19:512-7. 2012
..However, there is little information about its relationship to disease status, or about the Doctors subscale (DHLOC), in this population...
- Decreased depression up to one year following CBSM+ intervention in depressed women with AIDS: the smart/EST women's project
Arthur Laperriere
Department of Psychiatry, University of Miami School of Medicine, Dominion Tower Suite 404 D 21, 1400N W 10th Ave, Miami, Florida 33136, USA
J Health Psychol 10:223-31. 2005
..The CBSM+ Group intervention significantly decreased depression scores on the BDI for women following the intervention and maintained the decreased level at one-year follow-up...
- An exploration of the health benefits of factors that help us to thrive
Gail H Ironson
Int J Behav Med 12:47-9. 2005
