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1. Coping strategies of HIV patients with peripheral neuropathy

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Lisa Spielman, Baruch Fishman, Germaine A. Griswold, and Susan Evans

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Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Coping (psychology), Health (social science), Social Psychology, Population, Pain, HIV Infections, Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), Surveys and Questionnaires, Immunopathology, Adaptation, Psychological, medicine, Humans, Brief Pain Inventory, education, education.field_of_study, business.industry, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Beck Depression Inventory, Peripheral Nervous System Diseases, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Distress, Peripheral neuropathy, Physical therapy, Female, New York City, business, Stress, Psychological, Clinical psychology
Abstract

The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between coping strategies and reports of with pain and distress in patients with HIV-related peripheral neuropathy. Seventy-eight HIV seropositive subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CSQ), a self-report measure that assesses seven factors, the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI), the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Bivariate correlations revealed that younger patients used more Praying-Hoping (r=-.23, p

Published
2005
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2. Predictors of attrition in HIV-positive subjects with peripheral neuropathic pain

Author

A Haley, L Davis, Lisa Spielman, Baruch Fishman, and Susan Evans

Subjects
Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Health (social science), Social Psychology, medicine.medical_treatment, Health Status, HIV Infections, law.invention, Social support, Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), Quality of life, Randomized controlled trial, law, mental disorders, Medicine, Humans, Pain Management, Pain Measurement, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, business.industry, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Peripheral Nervous System Diseases, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Cognitive behavioral therapy, Peripheral neuropathy, Treatment Outcome, Supportive psychotherapy, Cognitive therapy, Physical therapy, Quality of Life, Patient Compliance, Female, business
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The objective of this paper was to identify predictors of attrition in a study designed to assess whether cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) was more helpful than supportive therapy (SP) in reducing pain associated with peripheral neuropathy in HIV-positive patients. Sixty-one subjects were randomized into either CBT or SP for six weekly one-hour sessions. Twenty-eight subjects dropped out before week six. Demographic variables such as age, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and level of education were not predictive of attrition. However, higher scores on the Hamilton Depression Inventory (HAM-D, 17-item) (t (59) = - 0.09, p

Published
2004

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