Liaison psychiatry and HIV infection (I): Avoidance coping responses associated with depressive symptoms accompanying somatic complaints

Neurocognitive complaints in HIV-infection and their relationship to depressive symptoms and neuropsychological functioning.

We examined the degree to which depressive symptoms, clinical staging of HIV disease, and neuropsychological (NP) functioning were related to neurocognitive complaints in HIV-infection. One hundred adults with HIV-infection (12 asymptomatic, 41 mildly symptomatic, and 47 with AIDS) were administered NP tests of attention and working memory, language, psychomotor speed, verbal memory, and concep...

Coping With Customer Complaints

Maladaptive coping, adaptive coping, and depressive symptoms: variations across age and depressive state.

Rumination has consistently been found to be associated with the onset and duration of major depressive episodes. Little research, however, has examined factors that may weaken the association between maladaptive coping, such as rumination, and depressive symptoms. In three samples of participants, including 149 never-depressed adolescent girls, 41 never-depressed women, and 39 depressed women,...

Age and sex differences in somatic complaints associated with depression.

Following the procedure used by Zemore and Eames (1979) with the Beck Depression Inventory, the 20 items of the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale were categorized as either somatic or psychological symptoms of depression. Scores of 179 college students and 462 community-dwelling older adults revealed significant, though small, age differences in somatic complaints. Somatic complaints were espec...

Types of coping strategies are associated with increased depressive symptoms in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.

STUDY OBJECTIVES Some, but not all, researchers report that obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients experience increased depressive symptoms. Many psychological symptoms of OSA are explained in part by other OSA comorbidities (age, hypertension, body mass). People who use more passive and less active coping report more depressive symptoms. We examined relationships between coping and depressive ...