Effects of Examination Stress on Psychological Responses, Sleep and Allergic Symptoms in Atopic and Non-Atopic Students

Jernelöv, Susanna; Höglund, Caroline Olgart; Axelsson, John; Axén, Jennie; Grönneberg, R.; Grünewald, Johan; Stierna, Pontus; Lekander, Mats

doi:10.1007/s12529-008-9020-6

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“…Academic stressors are characterized by welldefined periods of lower stress at the beginning of the semester followed by higher stress during the week prior to the final examinations [52]. Both perceived stress and sleep disturbances increase from the low-stress to the high-stress periods [53,54], providing an excellent opportunity to examine individual differences in changes in sleep quality in response to a naturalistic, yet fairly standardized stressor. A worry induction paradigm, eliciting personally relevant worries, was used to assess HF-HRV reactivity to an emotional stressor during the low-stress period [52].…”

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High-frequency heart rate variability during worry predicts stress-related increases in sleep disturbances

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High-frequency heart rate variability during worry predicts stress-related increases in sleep disturbances

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“…This latter finding is consistent with a previous study that did not find an increase in allergic symptoms after acute stressors. 10 …”

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“…There are limited studies on the connection between stress and worsening allergy symptoms, and they have primarily looked at effects of acute examination stress or a standardized acute stressor. 10–12 …”

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Perceived stress predicts allergy flares

Patterson

Yıldız

Klatt

et al. 2014

Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology

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Background A relation between stress and symptoms of rhinitis has not been established. Objective To determine if participants’ reporting of allergy flares correlated with perceived emotional stress, depression, mood, and a biomarker of stress (cortisol). Methods This study was a secondary analysis of 179 university employees who participated in a study evaluating the influence of several lifestyle interventions on health symptoms and inflammation. Perceived stress and depressive symptom questionnaires were obtained before each 2-week study period. Online diary entries documenting same-day allergy flares, stressful events, perceived stress, mood, and salivary cortisol levels were collected daily during 2 14-day blocks. Results Thirty-nine percent of subjects (n = 69) self-reported allergy symptoms. This allergy flare group had higher perceived stress scores than the group without allergy symptoms. Perceived stress, but not depressive symptoms, positively correlated with allergy flares evaluated during 2 independent 14-day periods. There also was a positive relation between negative mood scores and allergy flares over the course of the study. Cortisol had no association with allergy symptom flares. Conclusion These findings suggest that individuals with persistent emotional stress have more frequent allergy flares. Furthermore, those with more flares have greater negative mood.

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“…There is an ongoing debate over the relationship of anxiety/depression with AR (Addolorato et al, 1999;Annesi-Maesano et al, 2006;Jernelöv et al, 2009;Lind et al, 2014;Runeson, Wahlstedt, & Norbäck, 2011;Tonelli et al, 2009). According to previous clinical studies, opinions could be classified as: (1) AR associated with both depression and anxiety; (2) Anxiety, but not depression; (3) Depression, but not anxiety; (4) Neither.…”

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Nasal diseases and psychological distress

Wang

Luo

2015

Psychology, Health & Medicine

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A high rate of ENT doctors were murdered by nasal disordered patients in China recently. It is obviously important and urgent to find out whether there is any potential relationship between nasal diseases (ND) and psychological distress that might contribute to violent behavior. For this purpose, we carried out this literature review. There is a complex relationship between ND and psychiatric distress, which is mainly considered as a bidirectional causal relationship with other controversy opinions. However, most of the previous studies were found to be focused on allergic rhinitis and chronic rhinosinusitis, while reports about other ND were rare. Further study is still needed to uncover the secret aspects in this field, and more attentions need to be paid to other ND.

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Effects of Examination Stress on Psychological Responses, Sleep and Allergic Symptoms in Atopic and Non-Atopic Students

Abstract: Atopic students were worse off in aspects of psychological well-being and sleep, but displayed only partly stronger responses to a stressor compared to non-atopic students. In spite of a broad negative response to examination, allergic symptoms were not affected.

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High-frequency heart rate variability during worry predicts stress-related increases in sleep disturbances

High-frequency heart rate variability during worry predicts stress-related increases in sleep disturbances

Perceived stress predicts allergy flares

Nasal diseases and psychological distress

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