Journal ArticleJournal of health and social behavior · March 2018
Medical expansion has become a prominent dynamic in today's societies as the biomedical model becomes increasingly dominant in the explanation of health, illness, and other human problems and behavior. Medical expansion is multidimensional and represented ...
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Journal ArticleJ Aging Res · 2018
Despite increased rates of disease, disability, and social losses with aging, seniors consistently report higher levels of subjective well-being (SWB), a construct closely related to happiness, than younger adults. In this exploratory study, we utilized an ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2018
Over the past several decades, a new paradigm focused on cognition and culture has emerged in the social and behavioral sciences. The essence of this paradigm is two-pronged, emphasizing both the ways in which dynamic cultural themes become internalized an ...
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Journal ArticleSSM Popul Health · December 2017
The social gradient in health - that individuals with lower SES have worse health than those with higher SES- is welldocumented using self-reports of health in more developed countries. Less is known about the relationship between SES and health biomarkers ...
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Journal ArticleCirc Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes · May 2015
BACKGROUND: Divorce is a major life stressor that can have economic, emotional, and physical health consequences. However, the cumulative association between divorce and risks for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is unknown. This study investigated the as ...
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Chapter · March 26, 2015
There are strong reciprocal relationships between health and human development. Developmental disabilities and delays in utero and in childhood are associated with compromised health at all later stages of life, including middle and old age. Conversely, ph ...
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Chapter · March 26, 2015
Age is a personal characteristic, a base of stratification, and a characteristic of populations. This article covers the sociology of aging at multiple levels of social organization. Topics reviewed include the age structures of populations, the challenges ...
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Book · January 1, 2015
Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, Eighth Edition, presents the extraordinary growth of research on aging individuals, populations, and the dynamic culmination of the life course, providing a comprehensive synthesis and review of the latest researc ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health and social behavior · September 2014
Sociological research on mental health focuses on a multitude of dynamic processes, including changes in psychological symptoms or the onset of a mental disorder, the course and outcome of mental health problems, and the associations of mental health with ...
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Journal ArticleValue in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research · July 2014
ObjectivesThis study examined the effects of total knee arthroplasty on six measures of physical functioning, self-rated health, pain, earnings, and employment status among US adults aged 51 to 63 years at baseline.MethodsData came from t ...
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Journal ArticleJ Aging Health · June 2014
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to examine inflammation and coagulation, which are positively linked to disability and inversely linked to increased religious attendance, as mediators in the cross-sectional relationships between religious attendance a ...
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Journal ArticleGerontologist · February 2014
The Duke University Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development (Duke CFA) was established by a multidisciplinary group of visionary scientists in 1955. It is the oldest continually operating center or institute dedicated to aging in the United Sta ...
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Journal Article · January 1, 2014
Life course perspectives are recent additions to the conceptual armamentarium of the social sciences. Nonetheless, they already have demonstrated their value for understanding temporal aspects of life patterns. At the individual level, life course perspect ...
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Journal ArticleArthritis · January 2014
Productivity improvements that occur as technologies become widely used are not well documented. This study measured secular trends over 1998-2010 in productivity of hip and knee procedures gauged in terms of changes in physical function and pain after ver ...
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Journal ArticleGerontologist · December 2013
A large volume of empirical research has accumulated on the relationship between religion/spirituality (R/S) and health since the year 2000, much of it involving older adults. The purpose of this article is to discuss how this body of existing research fin ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of aging and health · September 2013
ObjectiveThis study used data for 1996-2010 from a U.S. longitudinal sample of elderly individuals from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) merged with Medicare claims data to assess changes in several dimensions of physical functioning and gene ...
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Journal ArticleThe American journal of cardiology · February 2013
Although studies have demonstrated health benefits, there is limited evidence on utilization and cost changes associated with cardiac pacemaker implantation from national community samples. The aim of this study was to quantify changes in emergency room (E ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2013
The cross-fertilization of the sociology of mental health and life-course perspectives is a valuable and increasingly investigated research topic. Mental health is dynamic rather than static, and life-course principles provide conceptual and methodological ...
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Journal ArticleArch Intern Med · December 10, 2012
BACKGROUND: Employment instability is a major source of strain affecting an increasing number of adults in the United States. Little is known about the cumulative effect of multiple job losses and unemployment on the risks for acute myocardial infarction ( ...
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Journal ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982) · December 2012
This study examines the interactive contextual effect of income inequality on health. Specifically, we hypothesize that income inequality will moderate the relationships between individual-level risk factors and health. Using National Health Interview Surv ...
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Journal ArticleGerontologist · October 2012
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: To examine the longitudinal associations between 3 dimensions of religious involvement-religious attendance, use of religious media, and private religious activities-and 3 domains of functional status-limitations in basic activities o ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Public Health · August 2012
OBJECTIVES: We investigated associations among age, race, socioeconomic status (SES), and mortality in older persons and whether low SES contributes to the Black-White mortality crossover (when elevated age-specific mortality rates invert). METHODS: We use ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Hypertens · April 2012
BACKGROUND: This birth cohort study was conducted to investigate the contribution of prenatal and antenatal environmental exposures to later-life hypertensive status. METHODS: Two thousand five hundred and three individuals born in 1921-1954 at the Peking ...
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Chapter · December 1, 2011
Depression is the most prevalent psychiatric disorder in the older population. There is scientific consensus that depression results from social, psychological, biological, and genetic causes. This chapter examines the role of social factors in the distrib ...
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Book · December 1, 2011
The Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, Seventh Edition summarizes the research literature on the social aspects of aging. The Seventh Edition will have 88% new material and authors with 25 chapters: 22 of the chapters will be on completely new topi ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Psychiatry Med · 2011
Patients and family members often turn to prayer in response to serious, life-threatening illness. Prayer for a miraculous cure is often the request. While prayer can keep hope alive, it may also promote unrealistic expectations that fuel demands for life- ...
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Journal ArticleRes Aging · January 2011
This research examines the association of religious participation with mortality using a longitudinal data set collected from 9,017 oldest-old aged 85+ and 6,956 younger elders aged 65 to 84 in China in 2002 and 2005 and hazard models. Results show that ad ...
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Journal ArticleResearch on Aging · January 1, 2011
Countless studies show that socioeconomic status (SES) is strongly related to morbidity and mortality. However, few studies consider the substantial variability in health within socioeconomic strata. In this article, the authors examine the incompatibility ...
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Journal ArticleThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · May 2010
UnlabelledOBJECTIVES. Understanding the factors that promote quality of life in old age has been a staple of social gerontology since its inception and remains a significant theme in aging research. The purpose of this article was to review the st ...
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Journal ArticlePalliat Support Care · December 2009
OBJECTIVE: Patients approaching the end of life not only face challenges to physical well-being but also threats to emotional and spiritual integrity. Yet, identifying appropriate, effective, and brief interventions to address those concerns has proven elu ...
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Chapter · September 2, 2009
This article considers research in the field of stress and coping via a focus on three specific areas: theoretical models of stress and coping and of work-related stressors in particular; the assessment of strain in work contexts; and coping strategies and ...
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Journal ArticleJ Palliat Med · November 2008
BACKGROUND: Significant palliative care intervention has focused on physical pain and symptom control; yet less empirical evidence supports efforts to address the psychosocial and spiritual dimensions of experience. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of an ...
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Journal ArticleArthritis Rheum · October 2008
OBJECTIVE: Clinical research provides convincing evidence that total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is safe and improves joint-specific outcomes. However, higher-level functioning associated with self care and independent living has not been studied. Furthermore, ...
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Chapter · September 1, 2008
This chapter presents an interdisciplinary study on the links between religion and spirituality to health. It discusses the state-of-the science with regard to what is known about the links between religion and health. It reviews the major questions guidin ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society · June 2008
ObjectivesTo estimate the effects of total hip arthroplasty (THA) on three levels of physical functioning in a representative national sample of older adults.DesignSurvey.SettingParticipants were interviewed in their homes.Pa ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Emerg Med · May 2008
OBJECTIVE: The goals of this study were to (1) determine whether level of social support and living situation predicted emergency department (ED) use among older adults and (2) identify correlates of ED visits according to whether the patient was admitted ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health and social behavior · March 2008
The study compares the effects of structural bases and functional elements of social support on mental health in Taiwan and the United States, using the study conducted in the United States by Lin, Ye, and Ensel (1999) as a reference. Based on a nationally ...
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Chapter · December 1, 2007
Virtually all major issues in the study of mental health involve conceptualizing and modeling change. Social selection and social causation, estimating the effects of stress, identifying other antecedents of mental illness, examining the consequences of me ...
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Book · December 1, 2006
The Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, Sixth Edition provides a comprehensive summary and evaluation of recent research on the social aspects of aging. The 25 chapters are divided into four sections discussing Aging and Time, Aging and Social Struc ...
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Chapter · December 1, 2006
This chapter examines the quality of life (QoL) among older adults. The vast majority of research on subjective well being (SWB) of an individual focuses on the relationships between objective life conditions and perceived life quality. A research model di ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican journal of public health · November 2005
The Disablement Process model explicates the transition from health conditions to disability and specifically emphasizes the role of intervening factors that speed up or slow down the pathway between pathology and disability. We used hierarchical Poisson r ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Geriatr Soc · October 2005
OBJECTIVES: To determine the effect of differing methods of dispensing wheelchairs. DESIGN: Quasi-experimental by day of week. SETTING: Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. PARTICIPANTS: Eighty-four community-dwelling, cognitively intact patients ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of aging and health · June 2005
ObjectiveThis article addresses how stable functional disability statuses and disability transitions are related to change in depressive symptoms in the elderly.MethodThe authors estimate longitudinal residual change models using two wave ...
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Journal ArticleInt Psychogeriatr · March 2005
OBJECTIVE: In this study, we examined 204 older depressed individuals for up to 64 months to determine factors related to depression outcome. We hypothesized that both presence of vascular brain lesions seen on baseline magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sca ...
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Journal ArticleArch Intern Med · July 26, 2004
BACKGROUND: The impact of religion and spirituality on acute care hospitalization (ACH) and long-term care (LTC) in older patients before, during, and after ACH is not well known. METHODS: Patients 50 years or older consecutively admitted to the general me ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Geriatr Soc · April 2004
OBJECTIVES: To examine the effect of religion and spirituality on social support, psychological functioning, and physical health in medically ill hospitalized older adults. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. SETTING: Duke University Medical Center. PARTICIPAN ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Religion and Health · December 1, 2003
Background: Religious and spiritual beliefs and practices are common among medical inpatients, and may impact length of hospital stay (LOS) and other health services (HSU) during hospitalization. Methods: 812 consecutively admitted patients age 50 or over ...
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Journal ArticleJ Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci · November 2003
OBJECTIVES: When they are faced with major life transitions such as worsening health, older adults may selectively withdraw from activities. Because of the importance of religion to a large proportion of the elderly population, research is needed to determ ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health and social behavior · September 2003
The existence, nature, and strength of race differences in mental health remain unclear after several decades of research. In this research, we examine black-white differences in the relationship between acute stressors and depressive symptoms. We reframe ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Geriatr Soc · September 2003
OBJECTIVES: To identify factors associated with activity restriction. DESIGN: Cohort study. SETTING: Patients prescribed a new wheelchair at one of two teaching hospitals (one Veterans Affairs and one private hospital). PARTICIPANTS: One hundred fifty-thre ...
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Journal ArticleResearch on Aging · July 1, 2003
Progress in studying the relationship between religion and health has been hampered by the absence of an adequate measure of religiousness and spirituality. This article reports on the conceptual and empirical development of an instrument to measure religi ...
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Journal ArticleResearch on Aging · January 1, 2003
Based on unique data from a sample of nearly 9,000 people ages 80 to 105 interviewed in 22 provinces in 1998, we found that gender differentials in educational attainment among the Chinese oldest old are enormous: Many more women are illiterate. Oldest old ...
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Journal ArticleThe Gerontologist · October 2002
PurposeThe volume of research on end-of-life care, death, and dying has exploded during the past decade. This article reviews the conceptual and methodological adequacy of end-of-life research to date, focusing on limitations of research to date a ...
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Journal ArticleThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · March 2002
ObjectivesAs people age, their peers (who are also aging) become increasingly susceptible to health decline and death, implying potential growth in stressful loss-related events over time for the individual. Yet little research has examined trajec ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Geriatr Psychiatry · March 2002
BACKGROUND: This study examined psychosocial and clinical predictors of depression non-remittance among a sample of initially clinically depressed elders. METHODS: Incident and prevalent unipolar depression cases (n = 166) were enrolled into the MHCRC for ...
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Journal ArticlePsychological Inquiry · January 1, 2002
There is increasing research evidence that religious involvement is associated both cross-sectionally and prospectively with better physical health, better mental health, and longer survival. These relationships remain substantial in size and statistically ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Geriatr Psychiatry · 2002
OBJECTIVE: The authors examined psychosocial and clinical predictors of time-to-remission in a sample of initially clinically depressed elderly patients. METHODS: Using a standardized algorithm, a prospective cohort study enrolled 239 patients undergoing t ...
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Journal ArticleCompr Psychiatry · 2002
This study examines impairment and health status and resource utilization among individuals with and without borderline personality disorder (BPD), all of whom had post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS). Using data from the community-based Piedmont Health S ...
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Journal ArticleResearch on Aging · January 1, 2002
Objectives: Dramatic increases in living alone in late life have been associated with higher incomes and better health, obscuring the risk to subgroups living alone with diminished health and socioeconomic resources. This study describes race differences i ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Psychiatry · November 2001
OBJECTIVE: This study tested whether social support protects against functional decline, either generally or selectively, in the most severely depressed elderly patients undergoing treatment for major depressive disorder. METHOD: In a prospective cohort st ...
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Journal ArticleJ Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci · May 2001
OBJECTIVES: We examined the association of structural and functional aspects of social relationships with change in disability, and the degree to which race modifies these associations. METHODS: Data are from a population-based sample of 4,136 African Amer ...
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Journal ArticleGerontologist · April 2001
The goals of this study were to develop a valid, reliable measure of lifetime religious and spiritual experience and to assess its value in explaining late-life health. Procedures included semi-structured interviews with Duke Aging Center volunteers (n = 3 ...
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Journal ArticleDemographic Research · May 2000
Based on censuses micro data files, population and family households projections, this paper analyses extremely rapid population aging, family dynamics and living arrangements of the elderly in China. Both our and the U.N.’s most recent projections confirm ...
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Journal ArticleResearch in Community and Mental Health · January 1, 2000
The purpose of this study was to identify contextual factors that affect the ability of caregivers to provide necessary supports to mentally ill individuals. Context was defined here as the socially patterned arrangements of peoples' everyday lives and the ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Social and Clinical Psychology · January 1, 2000
Spirituality and religion have been seen as beneficial, harmful, and irrelevant to health. We examine the recent research on this topic. We focus on (a) defining spirituality and religion both conceptually and operationally; (b) the relationships between s ...
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Journal ArticleJ Trauma Stress · October 1999
This study describes social functioning and service utilization patterns associated with posttraumatic stress symptoms relative to nonpsychiatric controls and depressive disorder controls in a cross-sectional epidemiological survey. Data from 49 cases and ...
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Journal ArticleJ Affect Disord · October 1999
BACKGROUND: A number of studies have concluded that the perceived quality of support is more strongly associated with mental health than with the actual structure of personal networks. This study examined clinical, historical, and phenomenological variable ...
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Journal ArticleJ Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci · July 1999
METHODS: A probability sample of 3,968 community-dwelling adults aged 64-101 years residing in the Piedmont of North Carolina was surveyed in 1986 as part of the Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE) program of the Na ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Geriatr Psychiatry · 1999
Authors examined effects of depressive symptoms on after-discharge survival of hospitalized medically ill male veterans. Psychosocial and physical health evaluations were performed on a consecutive sample of 1,001 patients ages 20-39 (16%) and 65-102 years ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Aging Hum Dev · 1999
This article explores the buffering effect of social support on depressive symptoms in a community sample of elderly with varying levels of disability. Baseline interviews were conducted in respondents' homes. Results show that higher levels of disability ...
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Journal ArticleJ Infect Dis · November 1998
The effects of black race and psychologic stress on the risk of acquiring herpes zoster in late life were examined. Subjects were participants of a stratified probability sample of community-dwelling persons > or = 65 years old. A comprehensive health surv ...
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Journal ArticleJ Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci · November 1998
BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between religious activities and cigarette smoking in community-dwelling older adults. METHODS: Cigarette smoking and religious activities were assessed in a probability sample of 3968 ...
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Journal ArticleAm Heart J · September 1998
BACKGROUND: Depression is common among patients with cardiac disease. A number of psychosocial factors may affect the relationship between physical health and depression. There is evidence from the psychiatric literature suggesting that negative life event ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Geriatr Soc · August 1998
OBJECTIVES: To examine the effect of black race and acute (negative life events) and chronic (lack of social support) psychological stress on the risk of herpes zoster in late life. DESIGN: A population-based, prospective cohort study. SETTING: Central Nor ...
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Journal ArticleResearch on Aging · May 1, 1998
This analysis examines the association between race and satisfaction with physicians among a sample of community-dwelling older adults. It is hypothesized that minority elderly will hold more negative attitudes toward physicians than will their White peers ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Psychiatry · April 1998
OBJECTIVE: The effects of religious belief and activity on remission of depression were examined in medically ill hospitalized older patients. METHOD: Consecutive patients aged 60 years or over who had been admitted to medical inpatient services at a unive ...
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Journal ArticleCommunity Ment Health J · April 1998
Data from the NIMH-Epidemiologic Catchment Area Project were used to predict differential use of private versus public outpatient mental health services, a salient concern in integrating public and private services in market-based health care reform effort ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Geriatr Psychiatry · 1998
The authors examined depression/disability outcomes in hospitalized older medical patients during the year after hospital discharge to assess the pattern and rate of changing depression and disability, the causal relationship between these variables, and t ...
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Journal ArticleJ Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci · January 1998
Few investigations of the social correlates of depressive symptomatology have addressed variation in the correlates across multiple dimensions of depression scales. We examined the relationships of selected social, clinical, and demographic correlates with ...
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Journal ArticleDepress Anxiety · 1998
The literature suggests that bipolar elders with early and late onset of the disorder present with different demographic, family history, and psychosocial profiles, which are less well characterized than those for elderly unipolar patients. In this cross-s ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Psychiatry Med · 1998
OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between religious activities and blood pressure in community-dwelling older adults. METHOD: Blood pressure and religious activities were assessed in a probability sample of 3,963 persons age sixty-five years or older ...
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Journal ArticleDepress Anxiety · 1998
The purpose of this paper is to estimate the relative probabilities of 6-month recovery from an index episode of major depression for subjects with and without MRI-confirmed vascular brain changes. In this cohort study, 57 depressed subjects from the Duke ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Religion and Health · January 1, 1998
Objective: To examine the effects of religious affiliation and religious coping on survival of acutely-hospitalized medically-ill male veterans following discharge. Sample and Methods: Between 1987 and 1989, comprehensive psychosocial and physical-health e ...
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Journal ArticlePsychiatry Res · October 10, 1997
This study used a case-control design to address differences in psychosocial, physical and clinical profiles between subjects who presented with a chronic index episode of major depression and those who presented with a non-chronic index episode. Subjects ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Psychiatry · October 1997
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine antidepressant use by nonpsychiatrists in the treatment of depressed elderly medical inpatients. METHOD: Patients aged 60 or older who were admitted to medical services at Duke Hospital were evaluated by ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Psychiatry · October 1997
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine and compare rates of depression, correlates, and course of symptoms in medically ill hospitalized elders through use of six diagnostic schemes (inclusive, etiologic, exclusive-inclusive, exclusive-etiolog ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Mental Health Administration · September 11, 1997
Involuntary outpatient commitment (OPC) is a civil justice procedure intended to enhance compliance with community mental health treatment, to improve functioning and to reduce recurrent dangerousness and hospital recidivism. The research literature on OPC ...
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Journal ArticleHealth psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · September 1997
This article uses data from 7 population surveys to evaluate the association of sexual assault history with health perceptions. It estimates the extent of generalizability across gender, ethnic groups, and studies; the extent to which depression accounts f ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Acad Psychiatry Law · 1997
Many experimental trials of community mental health interventions fail to develop testable conceptual models of the specific mechanisms and pathways by which relevant outcomes may occur, thus falling short of usefully interpreting what happens inside the e ...
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Journal ArticleJ Ment Health Adm · 1997
Involuntary outpatient commitment (OPC) is a civil justice procedure intended to enhance compliance with community mental health treatment, to improve functioning, and to reduce recurrent dangerousness and hospital recidivism. The research literature on OP ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Psychiatry Med · 1997
OBJECTIVE: First, to examine and explain the relationship between religious service attendance and plasma Interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels, and second, to examine the relationship between religious attendance and other immune-system regulators and inflammatory ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Geriatr Psychiatry · 1997
The authors examined models of the relationships between religious activities, physical health, social support, and depressive symptoms in a sample of 4,000 persons age 65 and over. Religious activity was examined first as a single composite construct and ...
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Journal ArticleJ Affect Disord · July 8, 1996
Age of onset has been used as a correlate of depressive symptomatology in the elderly. Examining frequency of episodes may improve our ability to make such correlations. The authors studied variations in an index presentation of depression in late life bas ...
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Journal ArticleArch Gen Psychiatry · June 1996
BACKGROUND: Lifetime community rates of attempted suicide were compared between those who reported a history of sexual assault and a control group without such a history. METHODS: The 2918 respondents in the Duke University Epidemiological Catchment Area S ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Hypertens · June 1996
In order to determine the adequacy of blood pressure treatment in black and white elderly men and women, the authors performed a cross-sectional population survey in Central North Carolina in 1986-1987. Participants included a random sample of noninstituti ...
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Journal ArticleThe Gerontologist · April 1996
The major purpose of this discussion is to demonstrate that the knowledge base has suffered as a result of insufficient cross-fertilization of social-psychological and life course/aging perspectives. The central focus of the article is identification of re ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Psychiatry · May 1995
OBJECTIVE: The authors examined the relationship between age at onset of first depressive episode and clinical features in elderly depressed patients. METHOD: They used data on age at onset and clinical features in 246 elderly depressed patients treated at ...
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Journal ArticlePsychiatr Serv · April 1995
OBJECTIVE: Involuntary outpatient commitment has been used as a method of improving tenure in community programs for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness. This paper reviews literature on research about involuntary outpatient commitment an ...
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Journal ArticleJ Infect Dis · March 1995
The purpose of this study was to determine if there are racial differences in the occurrence of herpes zoster (shingles). The study population was the Duke Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly, a probability sample of community- ...
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Journal ArticleClinical Gerontologist · January 10, 1995
Objective: In this paper we developed a scale to measure dysfunctional attitudes in medically ill elderly, examined its test characteristics, and explored associations with other health variables. Sample and Methods: Eight items were selected from Weissman ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Psychiatry Med · 1995
OBJECTIVE: To develop a long and short version of an index to measure experiences during hospitalization perceived by elderly patients as stressful. SAMPLES AND METHODS: Consecutive patients aged sixty or over admitted to a university teaching hospital wer ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Psychiatry · December 1994
OBJECTIVE: This study investigated how insurance coverage for mental health services affects outpatient mental health service utilization among those with and among those without a DSM-III psychiatric diagnosis. The authors used a representative community ...
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Journal ArticleArch Gen Psychiatry · December 1994
BACKGROUND: Individuals with subthreshold social phobia (SSP) in the community are characterized relative to nonphobic, healthy controls (C), and diagnosed social phobics (SP). METHODS: Data from 1488 subjects from the Duke University Epidemiological Catch ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Epidemiol · November 1994
The accuracy of self-report of herpes zoster was investigated in the Duke Established Populations for Epidemiological Studies of the Elderly, a longitudinal study of 4162 community-dwelling elderly persons residing in North Carolina, 1986-1993. The authors ...
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Journal ArticleGerontologist · October 1994
Low Medicare reimbursement rates are already causing some mental health professionals to turn away elderly patients, restricting access to care. Where will funds come from to pay for the mental health needs of older adults in the year 2020, when 80 million ...
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Journal ArticleJ Consult Clin Psychol · August 1994
Rates of poor psychological adjustment of children with sickle cell disease remained relatively constant over initial and follow-up assessment points. However, there was relatively little stability in the classification of the adjustment of individuals, lo ...
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Journal ArticleHosp Community Psychiatry · June 1994
OBJECTIVE: The authors examined the relationship between religious affiliation and psychiatric disorder among Protestant members of the baby-boom generation (those born between 1945 and 1966) who resided in the Piedmont area of North Carolina. METHODS: Dat ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatr Psychol · April 1994
Found that group rates of mother-reported and child-reported adjustment problems remained relatively constant over initial and 12-month follow-up assessment points. However, there was less stability in the classification of the adjustment of individuals, i ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatr Psychol · April 1994
Found moderate stability in the classification of maternal adjustment in two longitudinal studies of mothers of children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis and sickle cell disease. In terms of the transactional stress and coping model, stable poor matern ...
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Journal ArticleHosp Community Psychiatry · March 1994
OBJECTIVE: The study examined associations between religious variables and alcohol abuse and dependence among 2,969 North Carolina residents aged 18 to 97 who participated in the 1983-1984 National Institute of Mental Health Epidemiologic Catchment Area su ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Personality Disorders · January 1, 1994
Data from the Duke Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) study were used to determine if persons reporting a pervasive pattern of severe adult antisocial behavior always report a similar pattern of antisocial behavior in childhood. Roughly half of persons rep ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican journal of public health · December 1993
Racial differences in predictors of institutionalization were studied in a biracial North Carolina cohort (n = 4074). During 3 years of follow-up, 8.5% of Whites and 6.4% of African Americans were admitted to nursing homes. African Americans were one half ...
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Journal ArticleThe Gerontologist · August 1993
Can prominent themes that have emerged in dementia caregiving research be extrapolated to caregivers of persons with other chronic illnesses such as cancer? To answer this question, the present study compared 272 spouse caregivers of dementia sufferers wit ...
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Journal ArticlePsychol Med · August 1993
Social phobia was studied in a North Carolina community, using DSM-III criteria. Two kinds of comparison were made: social phobia v. non-social phobia, and comorbid social phobia v. non-comorbid social phobia. Six-month and lifetime prevalence rates were 2 ...
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Journal ArticleActa psychiatrica Scandinavica · July 1993
The associations between the one-month prevalence rates of mental disorders and sociodemographic characteristics were investigated for 18,571 people interviewed in the first-wave community samples of all 5 sites in the US National Institute of Mental Healt ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Psychiatry · May 1993
OBJECTIVE: The authors examined differences in the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in individuals who did or did not have alcoholic parents. METHOD: They used data from the National Institute of Mental Health Epidemiologic Catchment Area project, speci ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Psychiatry · April 1993
OBJECTIVE: The effects of childhood exposure to parental problem drinking remain unclear because of inconsistent findings and methodologic difficulties in previous studies. The authors used a large community sample to examine whether exposure to parental p ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Public Health · March 1993
OBJECTIVES: Given the national interest in progressive dementia, we estimated expenditures incurred in caring for dementia patients who live at home. METHODS: Primary caregivers of 264 patients from a university-based memory disorders clinic were interview ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Geriatr Soc · February 1993
OBJECTIVES: An intervention, which had as its primary goal the enhancement of compliance to social work recommendations, was shown to produce extremely high rates of compliance. This report addresses the secondary objective of the study: to evaluate the im ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Anxiety Disorders · January 1, 1993
We examined and compared associations between religious variables and anxiety disorders in 1025 young (ages 18 to 39), 645 middle-aged (ages 40 to 59), and 1299 elderly (ages 60 to 97) community-dwelling adults who participated in Wave II of the Piedmont N ...
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Journal ArticlePsychosomatics · 1993
The 35-item Duke Social Support Index (DSSI) measures multiple dimensions of social support and has been used extensively in cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of aging. Epidemiological studies of chronically ill, frail elderly individuals often wish ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Epidemiol · January 1, 1993
Hypertension in blacks, compared with whites, occurs at higher prevalence rates, is more severe, and carries a worse prognosis for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The authors examined the degree to which black/white differences in hypertension in t ...
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Journal ArticleHosp Community Psychiatry · December 1992
Data from the Duke Epidemiologic Catchment Area survey were used to examine the relationship between religious affiliation and major depression among 2,850 adults in the community. Religious affiliations were categorized into six groups: mainline Protestan ...
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Journal ArticleAnn Pharmacother · May 1992
OBJECTIVE: To describe and compare drug-use patterns among black and nonblack community-dwelling elderly. DESIGN: Survey. SETTING: Five-county urban and rural region in Piedmont, NC. PARTICIPANTS: Stratified probability household sample of 4164 community r ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Social Issues · April 1992
In previous research, the lifetime prevalence of sexual assault among U.S. women ranges from less than 15% to more than 50%. Much of this variability is due to methodological differences across studies, but some of the inconsistency may be substant ...
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Journal ArticleJ Nerv Ment Dis · March 1992
We followed a cohort of subjects (predominantly inpatients) suffering a major depressive episode in midlife and late-life for 1 year (N = 118). In this follow-up study, we examined three hypotheses. a) Elder subjects suffering major depression, compared wi ...
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Journal ArticleCancer · February 1992
This study focuses on patterns of response between patients with cancer and their spouse caregivers to examine the reliability of spouse informants in research and clinical settings. Thirty dyads (patient with cancer-spouse caregiver couples; total n = 60) ...
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Journal ArticleJ Gerontol · November 1991
Advanced age among the elderly has been hypothesized to be a risk factor for depression, yet extant data do not uniformly support this hypothesis. The paucity of sufficiently large and representative samples of both the young-old and old-old and the failur ...
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Journal ArticleJ Gerontol · November 1991
The purpose of this study was to determine the psychological, behavioral, and cognitive changes associated with up to 14 months of aerobic exercise training. For the first 4 months of the study, 101 older (greater than 60 years) men and women were randomly ...
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Journal ArticleJ Nerv Ment Dis · November 1991
The effects of negative childhood experiences on adult psychiatric status remain unclear because of inconsistent findings in previous studies. In this study, we examine the extent to which parental separation/divorce before the age of 10, parental death be ...
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Journal ArticlePsychol Med · August 1991
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was studied in the Piedmont region of North Carolina. Among 2985 subjects, the lifetime and six month prevalence figures for PTSD were 1.30 and 0.44% respectively. In comparison to non-PTSD subjects, those with PTSD ha ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Public Health · May 1991
BACKGROUND: Benzodiazepine anti-anxiety agents are the most widely prescribed psychotherapeutic drugs in the United States today. Recent evidence, however, suggests that their use may be decreasing. METHODS: We examine the population prevalence and correla ...
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Journal ArticleSoc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol · January 1991
The Epidemiologic Catchment Area Program (ECA) is the most comprehensive community and institutionalized epidemiologic data base currently available for mental health service planning. In this report, the authors compare the ECA with a previous community s ...
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Journal ArticleJ Consult Clin Psychol · December 1990
Analyses are presented that examine the impact of a diagnosis of affective disorder, anxiety disorder, and substance abuse before and after age 20 on multiple measures of education, socioeconomic and employment status, childbearing, marital status, and ins ...
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Journal ArticleJAMA · November 21, 1990
We describe the relationship of depression and depressive symptoms to disability days and days lost from work in 2980 participants in the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study in North Carolina after 1 year of follow-up. Compared with asymptomatic individuals ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of gerontology · May 1990
Levels of caregiver need were used to predict four patterns of continuity and change in social support over a one-year interval among 376 adults caring for a family member with Alzheimer's disease. Canonical correlation analysis was used to identify predic ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society · March 1990
The majority of research on "caregiver burden" focuses on mental health consequences. These stresses are associated with psychotropic drug use among some caregivers. The purposes of this paper are to identify the correlates of psychotropic drug use among c ...
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Journal ArticleJ Gerontol · March 1990
The results of a comparison of two typologies of sibling relationships in old age are reported. Both analyses rely on the same data collected in individual interviews with adults over the age of 65. The first typology was constructed using constant compara ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Psychiatry · March 1990
The authors examined the relationships between sexual assault and psychiatric disorders in a sample of 1,157 women 18-64 years old in the North Carolina site of the NIMH Epidemiologic Catchment Area Program. The results suggest that sexual assault is a ris ...
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Journal ArticleThe New England journal of medicine · February 1990
Thiazide diuretic agents lower the urinary excretion of calcium. Their use has been associated with increased bone density, but their role in preventing hip fracture has not been established. We prospectively studied the effect of thiazide diuretic agents ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Personality Disorders · January 1, 1990
The authors use a new diagnostic algorithm derived from the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (the DIS/Borderline Index) to identify a borderline personality disorder among 19- to 55-year-olds at the Duke site of the Epidemiologic Catchment Area project. A cri ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry · January 1, 1990
A stratified random subsample of 100 older adults from long‐term participants of the Second Duke Longitudinal Study was interviewed concerning how they coped with three stressful event periods. Responses to open‐ended coping questions were categorized as r ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Community Psychol · October 1989
The interactive effects of life events and social support on a DSM-III diagnosis of major depressive episode and on number of depressive symptoms were examined. Data are from a stratified random sample of 3,732 community-dwelling adults. The paper focuses ...
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Journal ArticleJ Gerontol · September 1989
The cardiovascular and behavioral adaptations associated with a 4-month program of aerobic exercise training were examined in 101 older men and women (mean age = 67 years). Subjects were randomly assigned to an Aerobic Exercise group, a Yoga and Flexibilit ...
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Journal ArticleJ Nerv Ment Dis · September 1989
Symptoms of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) and of psychiatric conditions reported to be related to ASPD were subjected to grade of membership analysis, a relatively new procedure for medical classification, to identify the pure types that would emp ...
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Journal ArticleBr J Psychiatry · June 1989
Duke Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) data were used to examine the relationships between: (a) early childhood maternal death, paternal death, and parental separation/divorce, and (b) six-month DIS/DSM-III diagnoses of agoraphobia with and without panic ...
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Journal ArticleBr J Psychiatry · April 1989
One hundred and fifty middle-aged and elderly adults with a diagnosis of major depression were assessed initially as in-patients, and were reinterviewed 6-32 months later. Both size of social network and subjective social support were significant predictor ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Geriatr Soc · February 1989
Dizziness was studied in 1,622 community-dwelling adults aged 60 and older who were interviewed as part of the Duke Epidemiologic Catchment Area study. The lifetime prevalence of dizziness (defined as severe enough to see a physician, to take a medication, ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Psychiatry · February 1989
No lay-administered interviews are currently available to identify persons with borderline personality disorder. The authors studied 79 subjects with the NIMH Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS), a lay-administered interview, and the Diagnostic Interview f ...
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Journal ArticlePsychosomatics · 1989
Somatization is conceptualized as a bodily or somatic expression of psychic distress. Unexplained somatic symptomatology was assessed by use of the National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule among community respondents in the Piedmon ...
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Journal ArticleJ Affect Disord · 1989
Depressive symptoms in three samples are assessed using grade-of-membership analysis to clarify the distribution of depressive symptoms across traditional affective diagnoses. The technique is used to examine whether depressive symptoms and symptoms freque ...
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Journal ArticleArch Gen Psychiatry · December 1988
A multivariate classification technique was used to examine whether depressive symptoms and symptoms frequently associated with depressive disorders would cluster into recognizable syndromes that parallel traditional DSM-III psychiatric diagnoses. An analy ...
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Journal ArticleArchives of general psychiatry · November 1988
One-month prevalence results were determined from 18,571 persons interviewed in the first-wave community samples of all five sites that constituted the National Institute of Mental Health Epidemiologic Catchment Area Program. US population estimates, based ...
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Journal ArticlePsychol Med · November 1988
Alternative procedures for coding nonresponse on the Mini-Mental State Examination as error or as correct) results in different classification of 13% of a random sample of 1931 subjects aged 60 and over. Comparison of responders' and nonresponders' ability ...
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Journal ArticlePsychol Med · August 1988
Mini-Mental State findings from an age 60+ random community sample (N = 1681) indicate that score is related to education, age and race (but not sex) and to functional status, but not to selected aspects of physical or mental health. Adjustment for demogra ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Aging Hum Dev · 1988
Effects of age on the distribution of specific life events experienced during the past year by community-based adults were examined controlling for sex, race, education, marital status, and place of residence. The controlled analyses were done using logist ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Psychiatry · September 1987
In a study of 2,902 subjects from the National Institute of Mental Health Epidemiologic Catchment Area Project in North Carolina, the association between life events and the onset of new cases of generalized anxiety syndrome varied across demographic subgr ...
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Journal ArticleArch Gen Psychiatry · August 1987
We studied rural-urban differences in the prevalence of Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS)-DSM-III alcohol abuse or dependence from a community survey (part of the Epidemiologic Catchment Area program) of 3921 adults living in the Piedmont of North Caroli ...
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Journal ArticlePsychosomatic medicine · January 1987
Since the majority of persons with alcohol, drug abuse, and/or mental disorders (19%) of Americans during any 6-month period are seen exclusively within the general health sector, it is imperative to know the quality and quantity of mental health training ...
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Journal ArticleJ Nerv Ment Dis · January 1987
Somatization disorder, the presentation of multiple somatic complaints in multiple organ systems, can be diagnosed by three roughly comparable diagnostic systems: the Washington University Feighner criteria, the Research Diagnostic Criteria, and DSM-III cr ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Public Health · January 1987
Based on data from the five sites of the National Institute of Mental Health-sponsored Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) Program, this paper examines the prevalence of psychiatric disorder among recent medical service users versus nonusers, with a particu ...
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Journal ArticlePsychiatr Dev · 1987
A new multivariate analytical technique for the analysis of medical classification, Grade of Membership analysis, is utilized to examine somatization disorder in a community population. The authors examine whether somatic symptoms will cluster into a clini ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Psychiatry · November 1986
The data recently collected in the Piedmont region of North Carolina as part of the National Institute of Mental Health Epidemiologic Catchment Area Program were used to examine somatization disorder in a community population. The authors found an adjusted ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Psychiatry · November 1986
Premenstrual syndrome specialty clinics are reported to be almost exclusively attended by white women. This racial discrepancy has raised the question of whether there is a lower prevalence or severity of symptoms during the premenstruum among black women. ...
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Journal ArticleBr J Psychiatry · September 1986
The Piedmont Health Survey interviewed 3798 adult community residents in a region of North Carolina. Current major depression was nearly three times more common in the urban than in the rural counties; rural residence decreased the risk of major depression ...
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Journal ArticleJ Nerv Ment Dis · September 1986
The purpose of this investigation was to obtain information about lifetime psychiatric diagnoses of women seeking treatment for premenstrual syndrome. The National Institute for Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS) was administered to 223 wome ...
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Journal ArticlePsychol Med · August 1986
The authors examine somatization disorder in a community population, using grade of membership analysis, a new multivariate analytical technique for the analysis of medical classification. The technique is used to examine whether somatic symptoms will clus ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society · July 1986
The treatment aim of medical care for home-based patients with Alzheimer's disease is to maximize the functioning level of the patient without jeopardizing quality of life for the caregiver. Most demented elderly live in the community with their families w ...
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Journal ArticleJ Psychiatr Res · 1986
Despite the low prevalence of somatization disorder in the community, the section of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule used to make the diagnosis--as well as previous diagnostic interviews for the related diagnoses of hysteria, and Briquet's syndrome--is q ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Geriatr Soc · September 1985
The Older Americans Resources and Services (OARS) methodology was designed to assess functional capacity in five dimensions (social resources, economic resources, mental health, physical health, and activities of daily living) and to measure use of and nee ...
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Journal ArticlePreventive medicine · September 1985
A national sample of family practice physicians reported on the treatments and referrals they provide for each of three behavioral health risks--cigarette smoking, obesity, and insufficient exercise--and on obstacles to effective office-based health promot ...
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Journal ArticleArch Gen Psychiatry · July 1985
We studied rural/urban differences in the prevalence of nine psychiatric disorders from a community survey (part of the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Program) of 3,921 adults living in the Piedmont of North Carolina. Crude comparisons disclosed that major d ...
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Journal ArticleThe American journal of psychiatry · January 1985
A survey of 350 family practice physicians nationwide showed that 22.6% of their patients had significant psychiatric disorders. Physicians reported treating most psychiatric problems themselves, usually through a combination of psychotropic drugs, advice, ...
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Journal ArticleJ Gerontol · January 1985
Data from two national longitudinal studies of older workers were examined in order to compare the determinants and consequences of retirement for white and black men, and for poverty, marginal, and upper economic level men. The number of categories import ...
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Journal ArticleArchives of general psychiatry · October 1984
The diagnostic criteria of the third edition of the DSM-III often state that one diagnosis cannot be made if it is "due to" another disorder. Using data from the National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule, with a sample of 11,519 sub ...
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Journal ArticleJ Gerontol · May 1984
The purpose of this paper was to compare the antecedents and consequences of retirement among men and women. Data were analyzed from two surveys: the Retirement History Study (N for analysis = 1845) and the Duke Second Longitudinal Study (N = 235). The pre ...
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Journal ArticleInternational journal of aging & human development · January 1984
The purposes of this article are to use replicated secondary data analysis to summarize information about the relationship between health and subjective well-being and to assess the strengths and weaknesses of replicated secondary data analysis as a mode o ...
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Journal ArticleJ Gerontol · January 1984
Six longitudinal data sets were used to examine the consequences of retirement controlling for preretirement characteristics. Results show (a) about one-half to three-fourths of income differences between retired and working men was caused by retirement; ( ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Geriatric Psychiatry · December 1, 1983
The data illustrate some important methodological considerations about the study of life events and the study of developmental data. As the data on the distribution of life events indicate, when individuals retell their life stories, events are rarely disc ...
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Journal ArticleJ Geriatr Psychiatry · 1983
These data illustrate some important methodological considerations about the study of life events and the study of developmental data. As the data on the distribution of life events indicate, when individuals retell their life stories, events are rarely di ...
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Journal ArticleThe ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · November 1982
The topic of change during adulthood is receiving increased attention from social and behavioral scientists, as well as from the general public. This article describes and evaluates the contributions of four types of models designed to further our ...
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Journal ArticleJ Gerontol · November 1982
Predictors of retirement among men were analyzed using data from seven longitudinal studies, multiple definitions of retirement, multivariate analyses, and unbiased statistical techniques. Results show that the predictors of retirement vary depending on ho ...
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Journal ArticleExperimental Aging Research · January 1, 1982
The measurement and analysis of change remain persistent dilemmas in aging research. The most frequently suggested technique for the analysis of change is residualized change score analysis, which is methodologically superior to the use of raw change score ...
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Journal ArticleArchives of general psychiatry · August 1981
Previous studies of sexual behavior in middle and late life suggest a decline in sexual activity during the last half of adulthood. Longitudinal data on the sexual activity of 278 married men and women, initially aged 46 to 71 years, were collected. These ...
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Journal ArticleExp Aging Res · 1981
This paper empirically compares the relative advantages of analysis of variance (ANOVA) and multiple regression (MR) approaches to the separation of age, cohort, and time of measurement effects in sequential research designs. The comparison utilizes four s ...
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Journal ArticleExperimental aging research · June 1980
Lack of a broader theoretical framework and a relative neglect of measurement issues have hindered many previous studies of age identity. In this paper, a case is made for viewing age identity as a dimension of self-concept and two measurement techniques a ...
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Journal ArticleThe American journal of psychiatry · January 1980
The authors review the role of psychiatric and behavioral factors in the practice of medicine in three areas: 1) prevalence of psychiatric morbidity, 2) the role of behavioral or lifestyle factors in illness onset, and 3) the overlapping of psychiatric and ...
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Journal ArticleExperimental aging research · April 1979
Self-concept and self-esteem instruments used in gerontological research were reviewed. Instruments were found to vary substantially in their conceptualization of self-concept and/or self-esteem as well as in the amount of attention given to assessing thei ...
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Journal ArticleGerontologist · January 1, 1979
A special purpose data archive of theoretically significant data sets relevant to the study of aging and adulthood has now completed its second year of operation at the Duke University Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development. Activities of the ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of gerontology · November 1978
The fact that the relationship between levels of activity and psychological well-being is not a simple one that suggests an optimal theory of aging has been previously recognized. Explanation of individual differences in levels of activity and psychologica ...
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Journal ArticleJ Gerontol · January 1978
Twenty-two young (age 17-21)and 22 old (age 60-74) men and women participated in an investigation designed to determine the extent to which age differences in omission errors and performance in a serial learning task are accounted for by cautiousness. Age ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of gerontology · July 1977
Both social psychologists and social gerontologists have expressed considerable interest in adaptation to the loss of central life roles. The relationship between retirement and morale, where morale is viewed as an indicator of adaptation, is an example of ...
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Journal ArticleExp Aging Res · March 1977
Serial rote learning was examined in men and women with high verbal ability aged 60-74 years. No sex differences were found in total errors, commission errors, or omissions errors. The results are in accord with the findings reported in a study by Wilkie a ...
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Journal ArticleExperimental aging research · September 1976
Storandt and Hudson's treatment of the issue of which general linear model technique is preferable to use when age effects are confounded is misleading. Contrary to their position that hierarchical ANOVA or step-wise multiple regression is superior to ANCO ...
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