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Chronic Pain and Anxiety in Children: Physiological and Emotional Factors in Stress Responses
(Vanderbilt University, 2007-05-08)
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The Relation of Negative Life Events to Symptoms and Functioning in Adolescents and Young Adults with a Childhood History of Chronic Abdominal Pain
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)
This paper looks at the effects of life stress on predicting health outcomes in chronic abdominal pain patients. It also looks at whether competence moderates the effects of life stress.
Stress Responses and Worries of Women at Risk for Breast Cancer
(Vanderbilt University, 2007-05)
The physiological impact of a breast cancer discussion between mothers and their daughters was analyzed in relation to other anxiety and concern measures. Fifty-eight mothers with varied breast cancer histories participated. ...
Parents and Children Coping with Pediatric Cancer
(Vanderbilt University, 2007-04-06)
Children who are diagnosed with cancer and their families must learn to cope with and communicate about the cancer diagnosis, treatment and its side effects, and hospital stays. Parents are their primary support; they are ...
Resilient Individuals Reform Their Assumptive Worlds after Stressful Life Events
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-11)
Individuals develop core attitudes and beliefs that bring a sense of reality and purpose to
their lives. They make up one’s assumptive world. After a particular trauma or stressful life
event, one’s assumptive world is ...
Children Coping with Cancer: Cross-Sectional and Prospective Relations between Parenting Behaviors and Children’s Coping
(Vanderbilt University, 2014)
Objective. Children diagnosed with cancer face numerous sources of stress and are at risk for emotional problems such as anxiety and depression. Parenting behavior and children’s coping are two important factors that may ...
The Impact of Stress on Autonomic Functioning in Chronic Abdominal Pain Patients
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)
This study examined the effect of social stress on chronic abdominal pain patients. Chronic abdominal pain (CAP) is a type of chronic pain common in children, experienced by 10-15 % of young children. Stress has been noted ...
Parents' expectations of their children's physicians and uncertainty regarding their children's health
(Vanderbilt University, 2008-04)
Functional symptoms, defined as symptoms in the absence of organic disease, are common among pediatric patients. Parents of functional pain patients often experience great uncertainty regarding their children's health ...
The relation of family and neighborhood socioeconomic status to symptoms and disability in pediatric patients with chronic abdominal pain
(Vanderbilt University, 2008-04-04)
Objective Investigated the relation of family and neighborhood socioeconomic status to
symptoms and disability in pediatric patients with chronic abdominal pain. Hypothesis This study tested the hypothesis that measures ...
African American and Euro-American Mother-Child Communication within the Context of Maternal Depressive Symptoms
(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-15)
Past research has shown that depressive symptoms and race/ethnicity separately impact parenting behaviors, although the latter is often confounded with other contextual variables. This study examined the association of ...