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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A longitudinal study of life events and metabolic control among youths with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. 
  • A pilot study of group exercise training (GET) for women with primary breast cancer: feasibility and health benefits. 
  • Agency and structure in the sociology of sickness. 
  • An archival prospective study of mental health and longevity. 
  • An objective approach to quantifying pain behavior and gait patterns in low back pain patients. 
  • Anxiety in medically ill older patients: a review and update. 
  • Applying a conceptual model for examining health-related quality of life in long-term breast cancer survivors: CALGB study 79804. 
  • Association of anxiety and depression with pulmonary-specific symptoms in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 
  • Behavioral and psychological approaches to the assessment and treatment of chronic pain. 
  • Behavioral assessment of head and neck cancer pain. 
  • Benefits of the uncertainty management intervention for African American and White older breast cancer survivors: 20-month outcomes. 
  • Children and hospitalization: Putting the new reviews in methodological context 
  • Chronic pain and depression. I. Classification of depression in chronic low back pain patients. 
  • Chronic pain management: a logical approach. 
  • Clinical features of depressed outpatients with and without co-occurring general medical conditions in STAR*D. 
  • Common sense, insight, and neuropsychological test performance in schizophrenia patients. 
  • Congestive heart failure patients' perceptions of quality of life: the integration of physical and psychosocial factors. 
  • Coping as a mediator in the relationships of spiritual well-being to mental health in black women with type 2 diabetes. 
  • Coping styles in heart failure patients with depressive symptoms. 
  • Coping with cancer. 
  • Daily well-being of cancer survivors: the role of somatic amplification. 
  • Depressed mood is a factor in glycemic control in type 1 diabetes. 
  • Depression and level of functioning in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. 
  • Depression and physical disability outcomes in depressed medically ill hospitalized older adults. 
  • Depression in male and female patients undergoing cardiac surgery. 
  • Depression in the medically ill: a common and serious disorder. 
  • Depression, pain, and pain behavior. 
  • Depressive symptoms and survival of patients with coronary artery disease. 
  • Detection and treatment of major depression in older medically ill hospitalized patients. 
  • Development of an observation method for assessing pain behavior in rheumatoid arthritis patients. 
  • Diabetes and behavior. A paradigm for health psychology. 
  • Diagnosing depression in patients with medical illness. 
  • Direct observation of pain behavior in low back pain patients during physical examination. 
  • Disease management status: a typology of Latino and Euro-American patients with type 2 diabetes. 
  • Disease-prone and self-healing personalities. 
  • Distress and motivation for smoking cessation among lung cancer patients' relatives who smoke. 
  • Distress associated with cancer as measured by the illness distress scale. 
  • Effect of mirtazapine orally disintegrating tablets on health-related quality of life in elderly depressed patients with comorbid medical disorders: a pilot study. 
  • Effects of time-limited vs unlimited compensation on pain behavior and treatment outcome in low back pain patients. 
  • Emotional reactions to pain predict psychological distress in adult patients with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). 
  • Empirically derived Symptom Checklist 90 subgroups of chronic pain patients: a cluster analysis. 
  • Evaluating the effects of eating disorder memoirs on readers' eating attitudes and behaviors. 
  • Evaluation of agreement between physicians' notation of 'no evidence of disease' (NED) and patients' report of cancer status. 
  • Facial expression and the affective component of cynical hostility in male coronary heart disease patients. 
  • Feared consequences of panic attacks in panic disorder: a qualitative and quantitative analysis. 
  • Hepatitis C and depressive symptoms: psychological and social factors matter more than liver injury. 
  • History of early abuse as a predictor of treatment response in patients with fibromyalgia: a post-hoc analysis of a 12-week, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of paroxetine controlled release. 
  • Hospital stressors experienced by elderly medical inpatients: developing a Hospital Stress Index. 
  • Illness behavior as a predictor of pain and overt behavior patterns in chronic low back pain patients. 
  • Issues related to using a short-form of the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale. 
  • Married with children: predictors of mental and physical health in middle-aged women. 
  • Maternal aggression persists following lipopolysaccharide-induced activation of the immune system. 
  • Measures of neuroticism and disease status in coronary angiography patients. 
  • Medical stress, appraised stress, and the psychological adjustment of mothers of children with myelomeningocele. 
  • Methylphenidate in the 'hard to wean' patient. 
  • Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) cluster groups among chronically ill patients: relationship to illness adjustment and treatment outcome. 
  • Narcissism and the development of chronic pain. 
  • Optimism in women undergoing abdominal sacrocolpopexy for pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • Pain behavior and pain coping strategies in low back pain and myofascial pain dysfunction syndrome patients. 
  • Pain behavior observation: current status and future directions. 
  • Pain coping strategies in osteoarthritis patients. 
  • Parents' worries about recurrent abdominal pain in children. 
  • Patient predictors of caregiver burden, optimism, and pessimism in rheumatoid arthritis. 
  • Perception of poor health in the healthy older adult. 
  • Prediction of pain behavior and functional status of rheumatoid arthritis patients using medical status and psychological variables. 
  • Predictors of depression outcomes in medical inpatients with chronic pulmonary disease. 
  • Prevalence and predictors of pervasive noncompliance with medical treatment among youths with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. 
  • Prospective study of perceived stress in cardiac patients. 
  • Psychological adaptation of mothers of children with spina bifida: association with dimensions of social relationships. 
  • Psychological adjustment of adults with sickle cell anemia: stability over 20 months, correlates, and predictors. 
  • Psychological adjustment of children with cystic fibrosis: the role of child cognitive processes and maternal adjustment. 
  • Psychological adjustment of mothers of children and adolescents with sickle cell disease: the role of stress, coping methods, and family functioning. 
  • Psychological factors influencing recovery from outpatient surgery. 
  • Psychological functioning among mothers of children with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus: a longitudinal study. 
  • Psychosocial and clinical predictors of unipolar depression outcome in older adults. 
  • Psychosocial and physical correlates of chronic depression. 
  • Psychosocial and physical predictors of anginal pain relief with medical management. 
  • Quality of life and recovery after cardiac surgery. 
  • Quality of life in pediatric patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators. 
  • Quantifying the recruitment challenges with couple-based interventions for cancer: applications to early-stage breast cancer. 
  • Recent advances in poststroke depression. 
  • Religious activity and depression among community-dwelling elderly persons with cancer: the moderating effect of race. 
  • Religious cognitions and use of prayer in health and illness. 
  • Religious coping and cognitive symptoms of depression in elderly medical patients. 
  • Research on religion and mental health in later life: a review and commentary. 
  • Research on religion and serious mental illness. 
  • Risk communication: coping with imperfection. 
  • Role of child and maternal processes in the psychological adjustment of children with sickle cell disease. 
  • Screening for distress in patients with brain cancer using the NCCN's rapid screening measure. 
  • Self-complexity as a cognitive buffer against stress-related illness and depression. 
  • Self-efficacy and adjustment in cancer patients: a preliminary report. 
  • Self-rated depressive symptoms in medical inpatients: age and racial differences. 
  • Serious physical illness as a stressor: effects on family use of medical services. 
  • Sickle cell disease in children and adolescents: the relation of child and parent pain coping strategies to adjustment. 
  • Sickle cell disease pain in children and adolescents: change in pain frequency and coping strategies over time. 
  • Social support and hostility as predictors of depressive symptoms in cardiac patients one month after hospitalization: a prospective study. 
  • Stress, coping, and family functioning in the psychological adjustment of mothers of children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis. 
  • Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among youth with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. 
  • Surviving critical illness: acute respiratory distress syndrome as experienced by patients and their caregivers. 
  • Systemic lupus erythematosus in three ethnic groups. IV. Factors associated with self-reported functional outcome in a large cohort study. LUMINA Study Group. Lupus in Minority Populations, Nature versus Nurture. 
  • Task Force III: Assessment of psychological status in patients with ischemic heart disease. 
  • The course of psychological distress following threatened and actual conjugal bereavement. 
  • The dilemmas of parents of adolescents and young adults with congenital heart disease. 
  • The effects of aerobic exercise on premenstrual symptoms in middle-aged women: a preliminary study. 
  • The relationship between cigarette smoking and chronic low back pain. 
  • The role of biomedical and psychosocial processes in the intellectual and academic functioning of children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis. 
  • The role of central nervous system functioning and family functioning in behavioral problems of children with myelodysplasia. 
  • The role of parent stress and coping and family functioning in parent and child adjustment to Duchenne muscular dystrophy. 
  • The use of coping strategies in chronic low back pain patients: relationship to patient characteristics and current adjustment. 
  • Treatment outcome in low back pain patients: do compensation benefits make a difference? 
  • Use of an electronic patient-reported outcome measurement system to improve distress management in oncology. 
  • Use of sensory descriptors in assessing chronic pain patients. 
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  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology