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      Social support, stress coping strategies, resilience and posttraumatic growth in a Polish sample of HIV-infected individuals: results of a 1 year longitudinal study

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          This study investigated the level of posttraumatic growth (PTG) and its association with the level of social support, stress coping strategies and resilience among a people living with HIV (PLWH) in a 1 year longitudinal study. We also controlled for age, HIV infection duration and the presence of posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS). From the 290 participants, initially eligible for the study, 110 patients were recruited for the first assessment and 73 patients participated in a follow-up assessment. Participants filled out following psychometric tools: the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI), the Berlin Social Support Scales (BSSS), the Mini-COPE Inventory, the Resiliency Assessment Scale (SPP-25) and the PTSD-F questionnaire. Received support and resilience were positively, whereas return to religion as coping strategy was negatively related to the PTG. Clinicians and researchers need to focus on potentially positive consequences of HIV infection, i.e. PTG, and factors that might promote it among PLWH.

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          The yellow brick road and the emerald city: benefit finding, positive reappraisal coping and posttraumatic growth in women with early-stage breast cancer.

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          Predictors and outcomes of benefit finding, positive reappraisal coping, and posttraumatic growth were examined using interviews and questionnaires from a longitudinal study of women with early-stage breast cancer followed from primary medical treatment completion to 3 (n=92) and 12 months (n=60) later. Most women (83%) reported at least 1 benefit of their breast cancer experience. Benefit finding (i.e., identification of benefits, number of benefits), positive reappraisal coping, and posttraumatic growth had distinct significant predictors. Positive reappraisal coping at study entry predicted positive mood and perceived health at 3 and 12 months and posttraumatic growth at 12 months, whereas benefit finding did not predict any outcome. Findings suggest that benefit finding, positive reappraisal coping, and posttraumatic growth are related, but distinct, constructs. 2003 APA, all rights reserved
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            Role of depression, stress, and trauma in HIV disease progression.

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            Despite advances in HIV treatment, there continues to be great variability in the progression of this disease. This paper reviews the evidence that depression, stressful life events, and trauma account for some of the variation in HIV disease course. Longitudinal studies both before and after the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapies (HAART) are reviewed. To ensure a complete review, PubMed was searched for all English language articles from January 1990 to July 2007. We found substantial and consistent evidence that chronic depression, stressful events, and trauma may negatively affect HIV disease progression in terms of decreases in CD4 T lymphocytes, increases in viral load, and greater risk for clinical decline and mortality. More research is warranted to investigate biological and behavioral mediators of these psychoimmune relationships, and the types of interventions that might mitigate the negative health impact of chronic depression and trauma. Given the high rates of depression and past trauma in persons living with HIV/AIDS, it is important for healthcare providers to address these problems as part of standard HIV care.
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              Positive and negative life changes following sexual assault.

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              A longitudinal study was conducted to investigate (a) the timing and course of posttraumatic growth and (b) the relations between positive and negative life changes and posttraumatic distress among recent female sexual assault survivors (N = 171). Most survivors reported positive change even at 2 weeks postassault. Positive changes generally increased over time and negative changes decreased, although change in different domains followed different courses and there was significant individual variability in change patterns. Both positive and negative changes were associated with distress in expected ways, although the relations with negative changes were stronger. The least distress at 12 months was reported by those who noted positive life changes at both 2 weeks and 12 months postassault. Implications for theory and research on posttraumatic growth are discussed.
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                Marcin Rzeszutek: +48 22 55 49 805 , marcin.rzeszutek@psych.uw.edu.pl
                Włodzimierz Oniszczenko: +48 22 55 49 805 , wlodek@psych.uw.edu.pl
                Ewa Firląg-Burkacka: +48 22 33 55 351 , burkacka@poczta.onet.pl
                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): J Behav Med
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J Behav Med
                Title: Journal of Behavioral Medicine
                Publisher: Springer US (New York )
                ISSN (Print): 0160-7715
                ISSN (Electronic): 1573-3521
                Publication date (Electronic): 31 May 2017
                Publication date PMC-release: 31 May 2017
                Publication date (Print): 2017
                Volume: 40
                Issue: 6
                Pages: 942-954
                Affiliations
                [1 ]ISNI 0000 0004 1937 1290, GRID grid.12847.38, Faculty of Psychology, , University of Warsaw, ; Stawki 5/7, 00-183 Warsaw, Poland
                [2 ]Warsaw’s Hospital of Infectious Diseases, Wolska 37, 01-201 Warsaw, Poland
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                Publisher ID: 9861
                DOI: 10.1007/s10865-017-9861-z
                PMC ID: 5681612
                PubMed ID: 28560605
                SO-VID: ad37cda8-a13b-4288-8685-d92bcd06cdb9
                Copyright © © The Author(s) 2017
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                Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.

                History
                Date received : 10 November 2016
                Date accepted : 25 May 2017
                Funding
                Funded by: Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw
                Award ID: BST no. 1712-10-2014
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                ScienceOpen disciplines: Neurology
                Keywords: hiv,posttraumatic growth,personal,social,longitudinal study
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                Keywords: hiv, posttraumatic growth, personal, social, longitudinal study

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