Gender differences in marital support following a shared life event

Edwards, Angela C.; Nazroo, James; Brown, George W.

doi:10.1016/s0277-9536(97)10039-9

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“…Concerning the type of symptoms, women reported more erythema nodosum, starting problems, fatigue, arthralgia, chest and abdominal pain. These results are consistent with trends in the general population that women report more symptoms (Ritchey et al, 1991) and are more emotionally expressive (Edwards, Nazroo & Brown, 1998). It is tempting to speculate that men and women cope differently with symptoms.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 87%

Gender Differences in Sarcoidosis: Symptoms, Quality of Life, and Medical Consumption

2000

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ABSTRACT. The aim of this study was to examine gender differences in quality of life (QOL) and in constitutional symptoms that coincide with sarcoidosis. The study population included 1026 sarcoidosis patients--all members of the Dutch Sarcoidosis Society--who completed the WHOQOL-100 and a symptom checklist. Women experienced more symptoms than men. With regard to QOL, male and female patients who suffered from symptoms differed in the broader domains of Physical Health and Psychological Health. Specific facets reflected pain, sleep, positive affect, appearance, mobility, and activities of daily living. Future studies should focus on the different experience of the disease between male and female patients more extensively. Studies are needed to evaluate whether the differences in the present study between male and female sarcoidosis patients are caused by a subject selection bias or life style differences; have a genetic, hormonal or biological base; or just are an epiphenomenon.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 87%

Gender Differences in Sarcoidosis: Symptoms, Quality of Life, and Medical Consumption

2000

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“…It is uncertain whether results are generalizable to males with IC/PBlS, but future research could seek to replicate the present findings in a male IC/PBlS sample. Importantly, gender is suggested to have an important impact on the provision and reception of social support [25]; it has been suggested that women are more likely to seek social support than men [26]. Replication in males with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) is suggested, as CP/ CPPS and IC/PBlS share common syndromeassociated outcomes (i.e.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spousal support decreases the negative impact of pain on mental quality of life in women with interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome

Ginting

Tripp²,

Nickel

et al. 2010

BJU International

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Study Type – Symptom prevalence (case series)Level of Evidence 4What’s known on the subject? and What does the study add?Research has demonstrated that significant others influence the course of pain experienced by individuals with chronic pain. Generally, spousal responses to pain behaviour are associated with higher levels of pain, disability, and depression.The present research discusses novel findings regarding how spousal responses to patient pain behaviour influences the impact of pain on mental quality of life in women with IC/PBS. These findings go beyond correlations, and begin to untangle the circumstances under which pain influences mental quality of life. Women with IC/PBS would benefit from spouse‐led distraction as a way to help them cope with their pain.OBJECTIVE• To examine whether spousal responses to patient pain would alter the association between pain and patient health‐related quality of life (HRQL), depression and disability.METHODS• Ninety‐six women with IC/PBlS (mean age = 50.6 (13.8); mean time since diagnosis = 6.2 years) completed questionnaires on demographics, depressive symptoms (Center for Epidemiological Studies‐Depression Scale), disability (Pain Disability Index), HRQL (Medical Outcomes Study Short Form 12) and a measure of perceived spousal responses to their pain (Multidimensional Pain Inventory).• A repeated measures multivariate analysis of variance examined association changes between pain and adjustment variables at high, moderate and low levels of negative, solicitous and distracting spousal responses.RESULTS• The association between pain and all outcome variables did not vary as a function of levels of solicitous and negative spousal responses.• However, the association between pain and mental HRQL was stronger at lower levels (β=−1.25) of distracting responses than it was at moderate (β=−0.66) and higher (β=−0.06) levels.CONCLUSION• Distracting spousal responses act to ‘buffer’ the deleterious effects of pain on mental HRQL for women suffering from IC/PBlS. Spousal support training may be a useful HRQL intervention.

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“…The level of stress provoked by the event depends on the individual appraisal of that event, whether it is irrelevant or threatening. Life event studies have confirmed that people who have high satisfaction with their relationships were healthier, both physically and mentally than those who did not (Edwards et al, 1998;Whisman, 1999;Prigerson et al, 1999). There is also an extensive body of research on 'life events' indicated that people with large social network experienced a greater sense of well-being than those who did not (Frude, 1991).…”

Section: Stressful Life Events As Stressorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stress experiences of parents with premature infants in a special care nursery

Lau

Morse

2003

Stress and Health

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This project is a controlled prospective longitudinal study of stress experiences of parents with premature infants born from 30-35 weeks gestation being cared for in a tertiary special care nursery (SCN). Sixty mothers and 59 fathers of premature infants and 60 mothers and fathers of term infants were recruited into the study. A range of repeated selfreports and biochemical markers of stress (cortisol and tribulin) were carried out on 5 measuring times through approximately a total of 24 weeks for parents of premature infants and 17 weeks for parents of term infants.Parents of premature infants reported higher stress levels than parents of term infants within the first week of infant's birth but had lower biochemical markers of stress. The stressors perceived by these parents in a SCN were appearance and behaviour of the infants and the delayed in performing the parental role. Parents used both emotion-and problemfocused coping strategies to deal with the stressful events.A follow-up telephone interview of these parents a year after the birth of their premature infant found that most parents expressed the experience as positive. A few parents were concerned over the neurodevelopmental and cognitive outcomes of their infants. Implications for clinical practice were discussed.

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Gender differences in marital support following a shared life event

Cited by 58 publications

References 23 publications

Gender Differences in Sarcoidosis: Symptoms, Quality of Life, and Medical Consumption

Gender Differences in Sarcoidosis: Symptoms, Quality of Life, and Medical Consumption

Spousal support decreases the negative impact of pain on mental quality of life in women with interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome

Stress experiences of parents with premature infants in a special care nursery

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