Stress: Prodrome to Immune Deficiency

Cecchi, R

doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1984.tb37148.x

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“…These results are striking given that these men are asymptomatic and therefore likely to be early in the disease process. Although there is some contradictory evidence (e.g., Rabkin et al, 1991), psychosocial stress has also been associated with the progression of HIV-related disease (Cecchi, 1984; Coates, Temoshok, & Mandel, 1984; Donlou, Wolcott, Gottlieb, & Landsverk, 1985; Solomon & Temoshok, 1987).…”

Section: Mediating Biological and Psychosocial Mechanismsmentioning

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Women and AIDS in the United States: Epidemiology, natural history, and mediating mechanisms.

Ickovics¹,

Rodin²

1992

Health Psychology

125

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The number and proportion of women with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)1 and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) have increased rapidly throughout the past decade. Despite these increases, research attention on women with AIDS has been relatively scarce until recently. It is likely that there are important sex differences at all phases of the disease process-from prevention, through viral exposure, diagnosis, and living with HIV, to treatment for AIDS. Therefore, research findings from studies of men may not all be extended reliably to women with HIV and AIDS. In this article, we review the literature on U.S. women in particular and discuss what differentiates these women from their male counterparts with the disease. We begin with an epidemiologic review and description of the natural history of the disease to lay the foundation for a more complete understanding of the biological and psychosocial factors relevant to AIDS in women. The association between psychosocial mechanisms--including stress, control, and social support--and immune-mediated disease outcomes is discussed in detail. Implications for research, prevention, and treatment also are considered.

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Section: Mediating Biological and Psychosocial Mechanismsmentioning

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Women and AIDS in the United States: Epidemiology, natural history, and mediating mechanisms.

Ickovics¹,

Rodin²

1992

Health Psychology

125

103

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“…Second, several psychological variables including mental depression (Calabrese, Skwerer, & Barna, 1986; Kiecolt-Glaser, Garnner, et al, 1984; Schleifer et al, 1983) and perceived loss of control and feelings of helplessness (Baum, McKinnon, & Silva, 1987; Rodin, 1988) have also been associated with altered immune functioning. Third, suggestive evidence has accrued associating psychosocial stress with the progression of HIV-1 infections (Cecchi, 1984; Coates, Temoshok, & Mandel, 1984; Donlou, Wolcott, Gottlieb, & Landsverk, 1985; Solomon & Temoshok, 1987), and putative mechanisms have been offered to explain these associations including stressor-triggered activation of latent HIV-1 to a state of active replication (Glaser & Kiecolt-Glaser, 1987; Sodroski, Rosen, & Haseltine, 1984, cited in Solomon, 1987). Fourth, we have observed that both the anticipation and the impact of being informed of their HIV-1 antibody status influences immune function in seronegative gay men (Ironson et al, in press).…”

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Psychoneuroimmunology and HIV-1.

Antoni

Schneiderman²,

Fletcher

et al. 1990

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

113

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Recent psychoneuroimmunologic findings have suggested that it may be useful to evaluate the influence of behavioral factors on immune functioning and disease progression among human immunodeficiency virus-Type 1 (HIV-1) infected individuals. Behavioral interventions with immunomodulatory capabilities may help restore competence and thereby arrest HIV-1 disease promotion at the earliest stages of the infectious continuum. Evidence describing benefits of behavioral interventions such as aerobic exercise training on both psychological and immunological functioning among high-risk HIV-1 seronegative and very early stage seropositive gay men is presented. The HIV-1 infection is cast as a chronic disease for which early immunomodulatory behavioral interventions may have important physical and psychological impact.

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“…For example, the stigma and discrimination that AIDS patients suffer may add to stressful life circumstances which may further jeopardize immune response (cf. Cecchi, 1984;Morin et al, 1984;Nurnberg et aL, 1984). With the exception of these studies and a few recent studies of AIDS-phobia among health care professionals (Pleck et al, 1988;Wallack, 1989), concern with social reaction has been largely left to inquiry by pollsters (cf.…”

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AIDS-phobia and political reaction in California: StudentVersus public responses to reactive political initiatives

1990

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A "social reactivist" study was conducted of the responses of 563 students enrolled in a Southern California university compared with those of a random sample of 1002 Californians telephone-polled by the California Poll. The study focused on AIDS-phobia, the fear of getting AIDS or the AIDS virus, HIV, from casual contact. In both samples, AIDS-phobia correlated well with reactive political sentiment. Students who were AIDS-phobic were expected to vote in favor of proquarantine initiatives (Proposition 64 in 1986 and Proposition 69 in June 1988). California Poll respondents who were AIDS-phobic, likewise, were expected to vote in favor of Proposition 102 (November 1988) which required reporting HIV-positive patients to local health officers. In the student samples, however, AIDS-phobia was found by factor analysis to have two subsets: AIDS-phobia-Wet and AIDS-phobia-Dry. These did not appear in the California Poll results. In the 1988 student sample, AIDS-phobia-Wet was significant in explaining proquarantine sentiment, while AIDS-phobia-Dry proved significant in explaining sexual activity. The converse was not true. AIDS-phobia is a major characteristic of the social audience to AIDS as a disease and may prove decisive in the evolution of the disease. Support for the victim (or lack of it) may influence the course of the disease and even public funding to fight the disease. AIDS-phobia may also blind heterosexuals to their own vulnerability, thus making them vulnerable to the disease.

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Stress: Prodrome to Immune Deficiency

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Women and AIDS in the United States: Epidemiology, natural history, and mediating mechanisms.

Women and AIDS in the United States: Epidemiology, natural history, and mediating mechanisms.

Psychoneuroimmunology and HIV-1.

AIDS-phobia and political reaction in California: StudentVersus public responses to reactive political initiatives

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