Psychosomatic medicine

· 3 papers in corpus
observational 2012
Fertility treatment response: is it better to be more optimistic or less pessimistic?
doi:10.1097/psy.0b013e318242096b ·PMID:22286845

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the prospective relation between dispositional traits of optimism and pessimism and in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment failure among women seeking medical intervention for infertility. METHODS: Among 198 women (a…

observational 1998
Abuse-related posttraumatic stress disorder and alterations of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in women with chronic pelvic pain
doi:10.1097/00006842-199805000-00017 ·PMID:9625218

OBJECTIVE: Although numerous organic conditions may cause chronic pelvic pain (CPP), diagnostic laparoscopy reveals a normal pelvis in many patients with CPP. However, psychological studies yield a high frequency of psychopathology and incr…

observational 1975
Mood and somatic symptoms during pregnancy
doi:10.1097/00006842-197503000-00004 ·PMID:1135360

A predominantly white, middle class sample of pregnant women (N = 93) completed the AACL (Anxiety), the DACL (Depressive Mood), the SCL (Somatic Symptoms) and the IPAT Anxiety Questionnaire at the second, fifth and eighth months of pregnanc…