Influence of psychological stress on upper respiratory infection-a meta-analysis of prospective studies

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 823-832

  Pedersen, Anette ^a   Zachariae, Robert ^a,b   Bovbjerg, Dana H ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Meta analysis; Moderators; Psychological stress; Psychoneuroimmunology; Upper respiratory infection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EFFECT SIZE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MENTAL STRESS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; MALE; META ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW;

DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHONEUROIMMUNOLOGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 78049516358     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e3181f1d003     Document Type: Article

References (71)

1. Jefferson T. How to deal with influenza? BMJ 2004;329:633-4.
2. Spicuzza L, Spicuzza A, La RM, Polosa R, Di MG. New and emerging infectious diseases. Allergy Asthma Proc 2007;28:28-34.
3. Meyer RJ, Haggerty R. Streptococcal infections in families. Factors altering individual susceptibility. Pediatrics 1962;29:539-49.
4. JENSEN MM, RASMUSSEN AF. Stress and susceptibility to viral infection. I. Response of adrenals, liver, thymus, spleen and peripheral leukocyte counts to sound stress. J Immunol 1963;90:17-20.
5. Segerstrom SC, Miller GE. Psychological stress and the human immune system: a meta-analytic study of 30 years of inquiry. Psychol Bull 2004;130:601-30.
6. Ader R, Cohen N, Felten D. Psychoneuroimmunology: interactions between the nervous system and the immune system. Lancet 1995;345: 99-103.
7. Bovbjerg DH. Commentary: resistance, psychoneuroimmunology, and the common cold. Mind/Body Medicine 1996;1:203-6.
8. hen S, Williamson GM. Stress and infectious disease in humans. Psychol Bull 1991;109:5-24.
9. Vingerhoets AJJM, Van Huijgevoort M, Van Heck GL. Leisure sickness: a pilot study on its prevalence, phenomenology, and background. Psychother Psychosom 2002;71:311-7.
10. Chapar GN, Friedman SB, Horwitz J. Relationship between psychosocial variables and school absenteeism in kindergarten children. J Dev Behav Pediatr 1988;9:352-8.
11. Graham NM, Douglas RM, Ryan P. Stress and acute respiratory infection. Am J Epidemiol 1986;124:389-401.
12. Clover RD, Abell T, Becker LA, Crawford S, Ramsey CN Jr. Family functioning and stress as predictors of influenza B infection. J Fam Pract 1989;28:535-9.
13. Grant M. Family function, stress, and influenza. J Fam Pract 1989;29: 473.
14. Cohen S, Tyrrell DAJ, Smith AP. Psychological stress and susceptibility to the common cold. N Engl J Med 1991;325:606-12.
15. Stone AA, Bovbjerg DH, Neale JM, Napoli A, Valdimarsdottir H, Cox D, Hayden FG, Gwaltney JM Jr. Development of common cold symptoms following experimental rhinovirus infection is related to prior stressful life events. Behav Med 1992;18:115-20.
16. Cohen S, Frank E, Doyle WJ, Skoner DP, Rabin BS, Gwaltney JM. Types of stressors that increase susceptibility to the common cold in healthy adults. Health Psychol 1998;17:214-23.
17. Cohen S, Doyle WJ, Skoner DP. Psychological stress, cytokine production, and severity of upper respiratory illness. Psychosom Med 1999;61: 175-80.
18. Jacobs MA, Spilken AZ, Norman MM, Anderson LS. Life stress and respiratory illness. Psychosom Med 1970;32:233-42.
19. McClelland D, Alexander C, Marks E. The need for power, stress, immune function, and illness among male prisoners. J Abnorm Psychol 1982;91:61-70.
20. Divale W. Cold symptoms and emotional dissatisfaction among rural/ urban and cuturally diverse high school students. Cross-Cultural Research 1995;29:27-42.
21. Mohren DC, Swaen GM, Kant I, van Schayck CP, Galama JM. Fatigue and job stress as predictors for sickness absence during common infections. Int J Behav Med 2005;12:11-20.
22. Mohren DC, Swaen GM, Borm PJ, Bast A, Galama JM. Psychological job demands as a risk factor for common cold in a Dutch working population. J Psychosom Res 2001;50:21-7.
23. Dyck DG, Short R, Vitaliano PP. Predictors of burden and infectious illness in schizophrenia caregivers. Psychosom Med 1999;61:411-9.
24. Jacobs MA, Spilken A, Norman M. Relationship of life change maladaptive aggression, and upper respiratory infection in male college students. Psychosom Med 1969;31:31-44.
25. Cohen S, Herbert TB. Health psychology: psychological factors and physical disease from the perspective of human psychoneuroimmunology. Annu Rev Psychol 1996;47:113-42.
26. Biondi M, Zannino LG. Psychological stress, neuroimmunomodulation, and susceptibility to infectious diseases in animals and man: a review. Psychother Psychosom 1997;66:3-26.
27. Lyons A, Chamberlain K. The effects of minor events, optimism and self-esteem on health. Br J Clin Psychol 1994;33:559-70.
28. Ockenfels MC, Stierle G, Stone AA, Hellhammer D. The effect of academic examinations on herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) and adenovirus latency. Psychologische Beitrage 1994;36:61-8.
29. Evans PD, Doyle A, Hucklebridge F, Clow A. Positive but not negative life-events predict vulnerability to upper respiratory illness. Br J Health Psychol 1996;1:339-48.
30. Sheffield D, McVey C, Carroll D. Daily events and somatic symptoms: evidence of a lagged relationship. Br J Med Psychol 1996;69:267-9.
31. Cobb JM, Steptoe A. Psychosocial stress and susceptibility to upper respiratory tract illness in an adult population sample. Psychosom Med 1996;58:404-12.
32. Turner Cobb JM, Steptoe A. Psychosocial influences on upper respiratory infectious illness in children. J Psychosom Res 1998;45:319-30.
33. Lee DJ, Meehan RT, Robinson C, Smith ML, Mabry TR. Psychosocial correlates of immune responsiveness and illness episodes in US Air Force Academy cadets undergoing basic cadet training. J Psychosom Res 1995;39:445-57.
34. Totman R, Reed SE, Craig JW. Congnitive dissonance, stress and virusinduced common colds. J Psychosom Res 1977;21:55-63.
35. Totman R, Kiff J, Reed SE, Craig JW. Predicting experimental colds in volunteers from different measures of recent life stress. J Psychosom Res 1980;24:155-63.
36. Cohen S, Hamrick N, Rodriguez MS, Feldman PJ, Rabin BS, Manuck SB. Reactivity and vulnerability to stress-associated risk for upper respiratory illness. Psychosom Med 2002;64:302-10.
37. Hamrick N, Cohen S, Rodriguez MS. Being popular can be healthy or unhealthy: stress, social network diversity, and incidence of upper respiratory infection. Health Psychol 2002;21:294-8.
38. Takkouche B, Regueira C, Gestal-Otero JJ. A cohort study of stress and the common cold. Epidemiology 2001;12:345-9.
39. Evans PD, Edgerton N. Life-events and mood as predictors of the common cold. Br J Med Psychol 1991;64:35-44.
40. Linville PW. Self-complexity as a cognitive buffer against stress-related illness and depression. J Pers Soc Psychol 1987;52:663-76.
41. Stone AA, Reed B, Neale J. Changes in daily event frequency precede episodes of physical symptoms. J Human Stress 1987;13:70-4.
42. Stone AA, Porter LS, Neale JM. Daily events and mood prior to the onset of respiratory illness episodes: a non-replication of the 3-5 day "desirability dip." Br J Med Psychol 1993;66:383-93.
43. Smolderen KG, Vingerhoets AJ, Croon MA, Denollet J. Personality, psychological stress, and self-reported influenza symptomatology. BMC Public Health 2007;7:339.
44. Evans PD, Pitts MK, Smith K. Minor infection, minor life events and the four day desirability dip. J Psychosom Res 1988;32:533-9.
45. Hedges LV, Pigott TD. The power of statistical tests in meta-analysis. Psychol Methods 2001;6:203-17.
46. Cohen J. Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; 1988.
47. Rosenthal R, Rubin DB. requivalent: a simple effect size indicator. Psychol Methods 2003;8:492-6.
48. Kiecolt-Glaser JK, Dura JR, Speicher CE, Trask OJ, Glaser R. Spousal caregivers of dementia victims: longitudinal changes in immunity and health. Psychosom Med 1991;53:345-62.
49. Deinzer R, Schuller N. Dynamics of stress-related decrease of salivary immunoglobulin A (sIgA): relationship to symptoms of the common cold and studying behavior. Behav Med 1998;23:161-9.
50. Lutgendorf SK, Reimer TT, Schlechte J, Rubenstein LM. Illness episodes and cortisol in healthy older adults during a life transition. Ann Behav Med 2001;23:166-76.
51. Cooper H, Hedges LV. The Handbook of Research Synthesis. New York: Russell Sage Foundation; 1991.
52. Rosenthal R. Meta-analysis: a review. Psychosom Med 1991;53:247-71.
53. Peterson RA, Brown SP. On the use of beta coefficients in meta-analysis. J Appl Psychol 2005;90:175-81.
54. Higgins JP, Thompson SG, Deeks JJ, Altman DG. Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses. BMJ 2003;327:557-60.
55. Poole C, Greenland S. Random-effects meta-analyses are not always conservative. Am J Epidemiol 1999;150:469-75.
56. Greenland S, O'Rourke K. On the bias produced by quality scores in meta-analysis, and a hierarchical view of proposed solutions. Biostatistics 2001;2:463-71.
57. Ioannidis JP, Trikalinos TA. The appropriateness of asymmetry tests for publication bias in meta-analyses: a large survey. CMAJ 2007;176:1091-6.
58. Deeks JJ, Macaskill P, Irwig L. The performance of tests of publication bias and other sample size effects in systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy was assessed. J Clin Epidemiol 2005;58:882-93.
59. Copas J, Shi JQ. Meta-analysis, funnel plots and sensitivity analysis. Biostatistics 2000;1:247-62.
60. Duval S, Tweedie R. Trim and fill: A simple funnel-plot-based method of testing and adjusting for publication bias in meta-analysis. Biometrics 2000;56:455-63.
61. Comprehensive Meta Analysis [computer program]. Version 2. Eaglewood, NJ: Biostat; 2006.
62. Moher D, Liberati A, Tetzlaff J, Altman DG. Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement. J Clin Epidemiol 2009;62:1006-12.
63. Groer M, Carr J, Younger MS. Relationships between self-reported symptoms of infection, menstrual-cycle-related distress, and cycle phase. Behav Med 1993;19:13-9.
64. Lau J, Antman EM, Jimenez-Silva J, Kupelnick B, Mosteller F, Chalmers TC. Cumulative meta-analysis of therapeutic trials for myocardial infarction. N Engl J Med 1992; 327:248-54.
65. Rose RM, Jenkins CD, Hurst MW. Health change in air traffic controllers: a prospective study. I. Background and description. Psychosom Med 1978;40:142-65.
66. Jenkins CD, Kreger BE, Rose RM, Hurst M. Use of a monthly health review to ascertain illness and injuries. Am J Public Health 1980;70:82-4.
67. Miller GE, Cohen S, Pressman S, Barkin A, Rabin BS, Treanor JJ. Psychological stress and antibody response to influenza vaccination: when is the critical period for stress, and how does it get inside the body? Psychosom Med 2004;66:215-23.
68. Heijnen CJ. Receptor regulation in neuroendocrine-immune communication: current knowledge and future perspectives. Brain Behav Immun 2007;21:1-8.
69. Cohen S. Keynote Presentation at the Eight International Congress of Behavioral Medicine: the Pittsburgh common cold studies: psychosocial predictors of susceptibility to respiratory infectious illness. Int J Behav Med 2005;12:123-31.
70. Zuk M. The sicker sex. PLoS Pathog 2009;5:e1000267. http://www. plospathogens.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.ppat.1000267.
71. Yeretssian G, Doiron K, Shao W, Leavitt BR, Hayden MR, Nicholson DW, Saleh M. Gender differences in expression of the human caspase-12 long variant determines susceptibility to Listeria monocytogenes infection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009;106:9016-20.