Do psychological factors predict occurrence of influenza-like symptoms in vaccinated elderly residents of a sheltered home?

British Journal of Health Psychology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 411-420

  Gidron, Yori ^a,b   Hassid, Avishag ^b   Yisrael, Hemda ^c   Biderman, Aya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c Beit Gil Hazahav Rest Home   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSING HOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VACCINATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; RISK; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 24944509007     PISSN: 1359107X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/135910704X20026     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Arnetz, B. B., & Theorell, T. (1983). Psychological, sociological and health behaviour aspects of a long term activation programme for institutionalized elderly people. Social Science and Medicine, 17, 449-456.
2. Barlow, J. H., & Wright, C. C. (1998). Dimensions of the center of epidemiological studies. Depression scale for people with arthritis from the UK. Psychological Reports, 83, 915-919.
3. Cohen, S., Doyle, W. J., Skoner, D. P., Rabin, B. S., & Gwaltney, J. M., Jr. (1997). Social ties and susceptibility to the common cold. Journal of the American Medical Association, 277, 1940-1944.
4. Cohen, S., Frank, E., Doyle, W. J., Skoner, D. P., Rabin, B. S., & Gwaltney, J. M., Jr. (1998). Types of Stressors that increase susceptibility to the common cold in healthy adults. Health Psychology, 17, 214-223.
5. Cohen, S., Tyrrell, D. A., & Smith, A. P. (1991). Psychological stress and susceptibility to the common cold. New England Journal of Medicine, 325, 606-612.
6. Corrigan, E. M., & Clancy, R. L. (1999). Is there a role for a mucosal influenza vaccine in the elderly? Drugs and Aging, 15, 169-181.
7. Dembroski, T. M., MacDougall, J. M., Costa, P. T., & Grandits, G. A. (1989). Components of hostility as predictors of sudden death and myocardial infarction in the Multiple Risk-Factor Intervention Trial. Psychosomatic Medicine, 51, 514-522.
8. Dutch Institute for Research on Primary Health Care (1991). Continuous morbidity registration sentinel station in the Netherlands 1988/89. Utrecht, The Netherlands: Author.
9. Frasure-Smith, N., Lesperance, E, Juneau, M., Talajic, M., & Bourassa, M. G. (1999). Gender, depression, and one-year prognosis after myocardial infarction. Psychosomatic Medicine, 61, 26-37.
10. Frasure-Smith, N., Lesperance, F., & Talajic, M. (1993). Depression following myocardial infarction. Impact on 6-month survival. Journal of the American Medical Association, 270, 1819-1825.
11. Gidron, Y., Davidson, K., & Bata, I. (1999). The short-term effects of a hostility-reduction intervention on male coronary heart disease patients. Health Psychology, 18, 416-420.
12. Gidron, Y, Davidson, K., & Ilia, R. (2001). Development and cross-cultural and clinical validation of a brief comprehensive scale for assessing hostility in medical settings. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 24, 1-15.
13. Govaert, T. M., Dinant, G. J., Aretz, K., & Knottnerus, J. A. (1998). The predictive value of influenza symptomatology in elderly people. Family Practice, 15, 16-22.
14. Govaert, T. M., Thijs, C. T., Masurel, N., Sprenger, M. J., Dinant, G. J., & Knottnerus, J. A. (1994). The efficacy of influenza vaccination in elderly individuals. A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial. Journal of the American Medical Association, 272, 1661-1665.
15. Hamrick, N., Cohen, S., & Rodriguez, M.S. (2002). Being popular can be healthy or unhealthy: stress, social network diversity, and incidence of upper respiratory infection. Health Psychology, 21, 294-298.
16. Houston, B. K., & Vavak, C. R. (1991). Cynical hostility: developmental factors, psychosocial correlates, and health behaviors. Health Psychology, 10, 9-17.
17. Kennedy, M. M., & Newton, M. (1997). Effect of exercise intensity on mood in step aerobics. Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness, 37, 200-204.
18. Kiecolt-Glaser, J. K., Glaser, R., Gravenstein, S., Malarkey, W. B., & Sheridan, J. (1996). Chronic stress alters the immune response to influenza virus vaccine in older adults. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 93, 3043-3047.
19. Kwate, N. O., Valdimarsdottir, H. B., Guevarra, J. S., & Bovbjerg, D. H. (2003). Experiences of racist events are associated with negative health consequences for African American women. Journal of the National Medical Association, 95, 450-460.
20. LaPerriere, A., Antoni, M. H., Ironson, G., Perry, A., McCabe, P., Klimas, N., Helder, L., Schneiderman, N., & Fletcher, M. A. (1994). Effects of aerobic exercise training on lymphocyte subpopulations. International Journal of Sports Medicine, 15, S127-S130.
21. Lee, D. J., Meehan, R. T., Robinson, C., Smith, M. L., & Mabry, T. R. (1995). Psychosocial correlates of immune responsiveness and illness episodes in US Air Force Academy cadets undergoing basic cadet training. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 39, 445-457.
22. Monto, A. S. (1987). Quantifying morbidity and mortality. The American Journal of Medicine, 82, 20-25.
23. Moyna, N. M., Acker, G. R., Weber, K. M., Fulton, J. R., Robertson, R. J., Goss, F. L., & Rabin, B. S. (1996). Exercise-induced alterations in natural killer cell number and function. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 74, 227-233.
24. Orth-Gomer, K., Rosengren, A., & Wilhelmsen, L. (1993). Lack of social support and incidence of coronary heart disease in middle-aged Swedish men. Psychosomatic Medicine, 55, 37-43.
25. Radloff, L. S. (1977). The CES-D scale: A self report Major Depressive Disorder scale for research in the general population. Applied Psychological Measurement, 1, 305-401.
26. Scanlan, J. M., Vitaliano, P. P., Zhang, J., Savage, M., & Ochs, H. D. (2001). Lymphocyte proliferation is associated with gender, caregiving, and psychosocial variables in older adults. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 24, 537-559.
27. Schaubroeck, J., Jones, J. R., & Xie, J. J. (2001). Individual differences in utilizing control to cope with job demands: effects on susceptibility to infectious disease. Journal of Applied Psychology, 86, 265-278.
28. Siegman, A. W., Townsend, S. T., Civelek, A. C., & Blumenthal, R. S. (2000). Antagonistic behavior, dominance, hostility, and coronary heart disease. Psychosomatic Medicine, 62, 248-257.
29. Smith, T. W., & Frohm, K. D. (1985). What's so unhealthy about hostility? Construct validity and psychosocial correlates of the Cook and Medley Ho scale. Health Psychology, 4, 503-520.
30. Vedhara, K., Cox, N. K., Wilcock, G. K., Perks, P., Hunt, M., Anderson, S., Ughtman, S. L., & Shanks, N. M. (1999). Chronic stress in elderly carers of dementia patients and antibody response to influenza vaccination. The Lancet, 353, 627-631.
31. Watson, M., Haviland, J. S., Greer, S., Davidson, J., & Bliss, J. M. (1999). Influence of psychological response on survival in breast cancer: a population-based cohort study. The Lancet, 354, 1331-1336.
32. Yodfat, Y., Shvartzman, P., Soskolne, V., & Bronner, S. (1993). Life events readjustment scale in a kibbutz. Israeli Journal of Medical Science, 29, 221-224.
33. Zorrilla, E. P., Luborsky, L., McKay, J. R., Rosenthal, R., Houldin, A., Tax, A., McCorkle, R., Seligman, D. A., & Schmidt, K. (2001). The relationship of depression and Stressors to immunological assays: a meta-analytic review. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 15, 199-226.