Stress and coping responses to a natural disaster in people with schizophrenia

Horan, William P.; Ventura, Joseph; Mintz, Jim; Kopelowicz, Alex; Wirshing, Donna A.; Christian-Herman, Jennifer; Foy, David W.; Liberman, Robert Paul

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2006.10.009

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“…This increase implies that responses to the catastrophe or treatment for symptom relapse among patients with schizophrenia were delayed. Horan et al (2007) compared patients with schizophrenia, patients with a bipolar disorder, and healthy controls with respect to stress and coping responses to the Northridge Earthquake that struck Southern California in 1994. They found that after the disaster patients with schizophrenia reported higher levels of subjective stress, especially symptoms of avoidance, but lower levels of coping and social support than healthy controls.…”

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The Impact of the Chi-Chi Earthquake on the Incidence of Hospitalizations for Schizophrenia and on Concomitant Hospital Choice

Tseng

Hemenway

Kawachi

et al. 2009

Community Ment Health J

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This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a catastrophic earthquake on the incidence of hospitalizations for schizophrenia, and on the choice of hospitals for patients thus hospitalized, using a quasi-experimental design. Results demonstrated post-catastrophe increases in the incidence of hospitalizations for schizophrenia by 11.0 and 21.6% in the first and second year after the disaster, respectively. Among index hospitalizations for schizophrenia, the earthquake was associated with decreases in the use of teaching and public hospitals. For patients with schizophrenia, aggravation of symptoms and the likelihood of being crowded out of the use of health care services by those with other physical or mental illnesses after a catastrophe warrant our attention.

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The Impact of the Chi-Chi Earthquake on the Incidence of Hospitalizations for Schizophrenia and on Concomitant Hospital Choice

Tseng

Hemenway

Kawachi

et al. 2009

Community Ment Health J

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“…In either way, the coping strategies function as emotion modulators and in this sense they are similar to the above concept of emotion regulation. Research on coping with stress has indicated that individuals with schizophrenia are inflexible in their use of coping strategies [27] , tend to use maladaptive emotion-oriented coping styles [28][29][30] , and rely more on passive avoidant strategies and less on active problem solving [31,32] . Maladaptive coping patterns in people with schizophrenia have been associated with higher levels of negative symptoms, depression, and anxiety [33] .…”

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Interpersonal distances, coping strategies and psychopathology in patients with depression and schizophrenia

Ponizovsky

Finkelstein²,

Poliakova³

et al. 2013

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AIM:To explore (1) intergroup differences in comfortable interpersonal distances (CIDs) and the use of coping strategies; (2) the association of these parameters with individual symptomatology; and (3) the interplay between CIDs and coping styles in patients with depression and schizophrenia. METHODS:The parameters of interest were assessed by means of standardized questionnaires: CID and Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations. Psychopathology was evaluated with the Beck Depression Inventory and Positive and Negative Syndromes Scale. ANOVA, Pearson's correlations and multiple regression analyses were used to examine relationships among the variables. RESULTS:Compared with controls, depressed patients were more distanced from family members, significant others and self-images, whereas patients with schizophrenia were less distanced from neutral and threatrelated stimuli. Distancing from self-images was mostly associated with depression severity in depressed patients, whereas distancing from hostile and threat-related stimuli with the severity of psychotic and affective symptoms in patients with schizophrenia. Both patient groups used more emotion-oriented than task-oriented and avoidance-oriented coping strategies. Self-distancing among patients with schizophrenia was positively associated with the use of the social diversion coping, implying social support seeking. CONCLUSION:Patients with depression and schizophrenia use different maladaptive emotion -regulation strategies to cope with their symptoms and related distress. Training in stress management might provide these patients with skills for more effective emotion regulation.© 2013 Baishideng Publishing Group Co., Limited. All rights reserved.Key words: Interpersonal distance; Coping strategies; Psychopathology; Depression; Schizophrenia Core tip: This paper takes a unique approach by investigating two emotion-regulation strategies, interpersonal distancing and coping with stress, in patients diagnosed with both adjustment disorder with depression and schizophrenia, and the relationships of these strategies to symptomatology of the disorders. The findings generally supported the hypotheses that the patient groups would display greater interpersonal distances from both positively and negatively valenced stimuli, and greater use of emotion-focused coping than controls. The findings suggest that patients with depression and schizophrenia use different maladaptive emotion-regulation BRIEF ARTICLE

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“…Even if these passive copings could relieve the stress transiently, they were less mature and less effective copings than problem-focused coping . Studies for coping in people with SPR demonstrated that they were more likely to rely on passive, emotionfocused coping rather than active, problem-focused coping (Böker et al, 1989;Horan and Blanchard, 2003;Horan et al, 2007;Rudnick and Martins, 2009;van den Bosch and Rombouts, 1997;Wiedl, 1992). Furthermore, maladaptive copings were related to patients' symptom severities (Lee et al, 1993;Lysaker et al, 2006;Strous et al, 2005;Wiedl, 1992).…”

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Coping Strategies and Their Relationship to Psychopathologies in People at Ultra High-Risk for Psychosis and With Schizophrenia

Lee

Kim

Park

et al. 2011

Journal of Nervous &Amp; Mental Disease

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This study's aim was to investigate coping strategies and their relationship to symptoms in people at ultra high risk (UHR) for psychosis compared with recent-onset schizophrenia (SPR) and healthy controls. Thirty-three UHR participants, 22 SPR patients, and 33 healthy controls completed the Ways of Coping Questionnaire and other clinical measures. People at UHR for psychosis showed significantly more reliance on tension-reduction and less reliance on problem-focused coping than healthy controls. The SPR group showed more reliance on tension-reduction coping than healthy controls at a trend level. Maladaptive coping patterns were associated with higher levels of negative symptoms, depression, and anxiety in both the UHR and SPR groups. These findings suggest that maladaptive coping strategies might have already emerged in the (putative) prodromal stage and could influence symptom severities.

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Stress and coping responses to a natural disaster in people with schizophrenia

Cited by 73 publications

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The Impact of the Chi-Chi Earthquake on the Incidence of Hospitalizations for Schizophrenia and on Concomitant Hospital Choice

The Impact of the Chi-Chi Earthquake on the Incidence of Hospitalizations for Schizophrenia and on Concomitant Hospital Choice

Interpersonal distances, coping strategies and psychopathology in patients with depression and schizophrenia

Coping Strategies and Their Relationship to Psychopathologies in People at Ultra High-Risk for Psychosis and With Schizophrenia

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