Fibromyalgia: A time-series analysis of the stressor-physical symptom association
Autor: | Richard L. Hazlett, Stephen N. Haynes |
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Rok vydání: | 1992 |
Předmět: |
Adult
myalgia Fibromyalgia Time Factors Stressor Cognition medicine.disease Developmental psychology Life Change Events Psychiatry and Mental health Health psychology Rumination medicine Humans Regression Analysis Daily living Female medicine.symptom Cognition Disorders Association (psychology) Psychology Stress Psychological General Psychology Clinical psychology |
Zdroj: | Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 15:541-558 |
ISSN: | 1573-3521 0160-7715 |
DOI: | 10.1007/bf00844855 |
Popis: | The purpose of this study was to investigate the association among daily stressors, cognitive rumination, and fibromyalgia symptoms using time-series methodology and to determine whether autocorrelation was present in the self-report data. Twelve female fibromyalgia subjects monitored their daily level of stressors, cognitive rumination, and fibromyalgia symptoms for 30-35 days. Time-series regression analyses indicated that there was a positive association between previous-day stressors and fibromyalgia symptoms for one subject and between previous-day cognitive rumination and fibromyalgia symptoms for four subjects. For 7 out of 12 subjects autocorrelation was present, and generalized least-squares methods were used with these subjects. These results indicate that ordinary least-squares methods may often not be appropriate for within-subject designs with self-report data. These results also question the often reported stressor-physical symptom association. This study illustrates a useful methodology and analysis to investigate psychosocial-physical symptom associations. |
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