Journal article
Psychological aspects of asthma
Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, Vol.70(3), pp.691-711
06/2002
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/106779
PMID: 12090377
Abstract
Asthma can be affected by stress, anxiety, sadness, and suggestion, as well as by environmental irritants or allergens, exercise, and infection. It also is associated with an elevated prevalence of anxiety and depressive disorders. Asthma and these psychological states and traits may mutually potentiate each other through direct psychophysiological mediation, nonadherence to medical regimen, exposure to asthma triggers, and inaccuracy of asthma symptom perception. Defensiveness is associated with inaccurate perception of airway resistance and stress-related bronchoconstriction. Asthma education programs that teach about the nature of the disease, medications, and trigger avoidance tend to reduce asthma morbidity. Other promising psychological interventions as adjuncts to medical treatment include training in symptom perception, stress management, hypnosis, yoga, and several biofeedback procedures.
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- Title
- Psychological aspects of asthma
- Creators
- Paul Lehrer - Department of Psychiatry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA. lehrer@umdnj.eduJonathan FeldmanNicholas GiardinoHye-Sue SongKaren Schmaling
- Publication Details
- Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, Vol.70(3), pp.691-711
- Academic Unit
- Psychology, Department of
- Publisher
- United States
- Grant note
- R01 HL058805-03 / NHLBI NIH HHS R21MH58196A / NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH058196-03 / NIMH NIH HHS R01 HL58805 / NHLBI NIH HHS
- Identifiers
- 99900546702801842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article