Psychosomatic MedicinePub Date : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2024-01-08DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000001282
Zachary E Magin, Crystal L Park, Jeffrey D Burke, Frank J Infurna
{"title":"Perceived Control and Inflammation: Mediating and Moderating Effects in the Relationship Between Cumulative Trauma and Depression.","authors":"Zachary E Magin, Crystal L Park, Jeffrey D Burke, Frank J Infurna","doi":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001282","DOIUrl":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001282","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The effects of trauma exposure on depression risk and severity are well established, but psychosocial and biological factors that impact or explain those relationships remain poorly understood. This study examined the moderating and mediating effects of perceived control and inflammation in the relationship between trauma and depression.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Moderation analyses and longitudinal mediation analyses were conducted on data from 945 adults who completed all three waves (spanning around 19 years) of the Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS) study and the MIDUS Biomarker Study. Data were collected during a phone interview, self-report surveys distributed in the mail, and an in-person blood draw. Two dimensions of perceived control-mastery and constraints-were examined separately in all analyses.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Perceived control did not significantly moderate the relationship between trauma and depression severity at MIDUS 2 ( b = 0.03, SE = .02, p = .091). Constraints significantly mediated the relationship between trauma and MIDUS 3 depression (indirect effect = 0.03, SE = 0.01, p = .016) but not after accounting for MIDUS 2 depression. Perceived control did not have a significant moderating effect in the relationships between trauma and inflammation or inflammation and depression.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings from this study revealed that perceived control may be better characterized as an explanatory factor rather than a buffer in trauma-associated depression. Perceived constraints in particular may be a useful treatment target for trauma-associated depression. Further research is needed to examine whether these results generalize to populations other than among mostly non-Hispanic White adults in the United States.</p>","PeriodicalId":20918,"journal":{"name":"Psychosomatic Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139404216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychosomatic MedicinePub Date : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2024-03-04DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000001300
Carrington C Merritt, Keely A Muscatell
{"title":"Discrimination and Cardiovascular Health in Black Americans: Exploring Inflammation as a Mechanism and Perceived Control as a Protective Factor.","authors":"Carrington C Merritt, Keely A Muscatell","doi":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001300","DOIUrl":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001300","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Inflammation may be an integral physiological mechanism through which discrimination impacts cardiovascular health and contributes to racial health disparities. Limited research has examined psychosocial factors that protect against the negative effects of discrimination on inflammation. Perceived control is a promising possible protective factor, given that it has been shown to moderate the relationship between other psychosocial stressors and physiological outcomes. This study thus tested whether systemic inflammation mediated the link between discrimination and cardiovascular health and whether perceived control moderated this relationship.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data for this project included 347 non-Hispanic/Latinx Black adults (mean [standard deviation] age = 51.64 [11.24] years; 33% female) taken from the Midlife in the United States study. Perceived control and daily discrimination were assessed via self-report, and inflammation was measured via circulating levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), interleukin-6 (IL-6), fibrinogen, and tumor necrosis factor α. Cardiovascular health was measured by morbidity of cardiovascular conditions: heart disease, hypertension, and/or stroke.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>CRP (indirect effect: b = 0.004, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.001-0.007) and fibrinogen (indirect effect: b = 0.002, 95% CI = 0.0003-0.005) mediated the link between discrimination and cardiovascular conditions. Perceived control moderated the relationship between discrimination and CRP ( F (1, 293) = 4.58, Δ R2 = 0.013, b = -0.02, SE = 0.01, p = .033). CRP mediated the link between discrimination and cardiovascular conditions only for those who reported low levels of perceived control (Index = -0.003, 95% CI = -0.007 to -0.0001).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Findings provide empirical evidence of inflammation as a mechanism linking discrimination to cardiovascular conditions among Black Americans. Additionally, perceived control may be protective. Findings could suggest beliefs about control as a potential intervention target to help reduce the negative effects of discrimination on cardiovascular health among Black Americans.</p>","PeriodicalId":20918,"journal":{"name":"Psychosomatic Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11001516/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140022489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tereza Serranová, Matěj Slovák, Zuzana Forejtová, Tomáš Sieger, Petr Dušek, Barbora Srpová, Kateřina Mrázová, Evžen Růžička, Karel Šonka, Alberto J Espay, Petra Nytrová
{"title":"Abnormal cerebrospinal fluid cytology in functional movement disorders.","authors":"Tereza Serranová, Matěj Slovák, Zuzana Forejtová, Tomáš Sieger, Petr Dušek, Barbora Srpová, Kateřina Mrázová, Evžen Růžička, Karel Šonka, Alberto J Espay, Petra Nytrová","doi":"10.1097/psy.0000000000001307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/psy.0000000000001307","url":null,"abstract":"The role of inflammation and neuroimmune mechanisms, which have been documented in various neuropsychiatric disorders including the seizure subtype of functional neurological disorder, remains unclear in functional movement disorders (FMD). To explore these mechanisms, we analyzed selected inflammatory markers in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in patients with FMD.","PeriodicalId":20918,"journal":{"name":"Psychosomatic Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140579162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arielle A J Scoglio, Karmel W Choi, Kristen Nishimi, Laura Sampson, Karestan Koenen, Andrea L Roberts, Shaili Jha, Laura D Kubzansky
{"title":"Pre-Pandemic Resilience to Trauma & COVID-19 Infection in Older Women.","authors":"Arielle A J Scoglio, Karmel W Choi, Kristen Nishimi, Laura Sampson, Karestan Koenen, Andrea L Roberts, Shaili Jha, Laura D Kubzansky","doi":"10.1097/psy.0000000000001304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/psy.0000000000001304","url":null,"abstract":"Prior work suggests psychological resilience to trauma may protect not only mental but also physical health. This study examined the relationship of pre-pandemic psychological resilience to lifetime trauma with self-reported COVID-19 infection and symptoms during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":20918,"journal":{"name":"Psychosomatic Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140579168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rebeca Alvarado Harris, Jamie Crandell, Jacquelyn Y Taylor, Hudson P Santos
{"title":"Childhood Racism and Cardiometabolic Risk in Latina Mothers Across the First Postpartum Year.","authors":"Rebeca Alvarado Harris, Jamie Crandell, Jacquelyn Y Taylor, Hudson P Santos","doi":"10.1097/psy.0000000000001306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/psy.0000000000001306","url":null,"abstract":"Immigrant Latinas, particularly of Mexican descent, initially achieve healthy perinatal outcomes. Although this advantage wears off across generations in the United States (US), the early life psychosocial mechanisms that may initiate a cascade of biological vulnerabilities remain elusive. The current investigation aims to understand the extent to which childhood experiences of racism may contribute to elevated levels of C-Reactive Protein (CRP), an early indicator of cardiometabolic risk, during the first postpartum year.","PeriodicalId":20918,"journal":{"name":"Psychosomatic Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140579169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eunjin Lee Tracy, Brian N Chin, H Matthew Lehrer, Brant P Hasler, Mark C Thomas, Stephen Smagula, Sarah Kimutis, Martica H Hall, Daniel J Buysse
{"title":"Behavioral-social rhythms and cardiovascular disease risk in retired night shift workers and retired day workers.","authors":"Eunjin Lee Tracy, Brian N Chin, H Matthew Lehrer, Brant P Hasler, Mark C Thomas, Stephen Smagula, Sarah Kimutis, Martica H Hall, Daniel J Buysse","doi":"10.1097/psy.0000000000001287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/psy.0000000000001287","url":null,"abstract":"Stability in the timing of key daily routine behaviors such as working/doing housework, sleeping, eating, and engaging in social interactions (i.e., behavioral-social rhythms) contributes to health. This study examined whether behavioral-social rhythms were associated with CVD risk factors in retired night shift workers and retired day workers and explored whether past night shift work exposure moderated this association.","PeriodicalId":20918,"journal":{"name":"Psychosomatic Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140579552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas E Fuller-Rowell, Megan M Zeringue, Ekjyot K Saini, Tiffany Yip, Mona El-Sheikh
{"title":"Do Sleep Problems Exacerbate the Mental Health Consequences of Discrimination among Adults?","authors":"Thomas E Fuller-Rowell, Megan M Zeringue, Ekjyot K Saini, Tiffany Yip, Mona El-Sheikh","doi":"10.1097/psy.0000000000001305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/psy.0000000000001305","url":null,"abstract":"An emerging literature suggests that sleep may play an important role in moderating the association between discrimination and mental health problems among adolescents. However, few if any studies have considered this topic among adults. Addressing this knowledge gap, the current study examined multiple sleep parameters as moderating variables in the association between discrimination and mental health problems among adults.","PeriodicalId":20918,"journal":{"name":"Psychosomatic Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140579167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender Differences in the Prevalence and Clinical Correlates of Metabolic Syndrome in First-Episode and Drug-Naïve Patients With Major Depressive Disorder.","authors":"Jian-Jun Zhang, Jingxia Wang, Xiao-Qian Wang, Xiang-Yang Zhang","doi":"10.1097/psy.0000000000001293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/psy.0000000000001293","url":null,"abstract":"Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a severe psychiatric symptom worldwide, and the coexistence of MDD with metabolic syndrome (MetS) is common in clinical practice. However, gender differences in comorbid MetS in first-episode and drug-naïve (FEDN) MDD patients have not been reported. Here, we explored potential gender differences in the prevalence and clinical correlates of comorbid MetS in FEDN MDD patients.","PeriodicalId":20918,"journal":{"name":"Psychosomatic Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140579161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Steven J. ^Holochwost, Vanessa V. ^Volpe, Abbey N Collins, Cathi B. Propper, W. R. Mills-Koonce, Eleanor D. Brown, Sara R. Jaffee
{"title":"Allostatic Load in Childhood, Adolescence, and Young Adulthood: Are Assumptions of Measurement Invariance Warranted?","authors":"Steven J. ^Holochwost, Vanessa V. ^Volpe, Abbey N Collins, Cathi B. Propper, W. R. Mills-Koonce, Eleanor D. Brown, Sara R. Jaffee","doi":"10.1097/psy.0000000000001292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/psy.0000000000001292","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 Allostatic load represents the cumulative toll of chronic mobilization of the body’s stress response systems, as indexed by biomarkers. Higher levels of stress and disadvantage predict higher levels of allostatic load, which, in turn, predict poorer physical and mental health outcomes. To maximize the efficacy of prevention efforts, screening for stress- and disadvantage-associated health conditions must occur prior to middle age – that is, during childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. However, this requires that models of allostatic load display properties of measurement invariance across age group. As most research on allostatic load has featured older adults, it is unclear if these requirements can be met.\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 To address this question, we fit a series of exploratory and confirmatory analytic models to data on 8 biomarkers using a nationally representative sample of N = 4,260 children, adolescents, and young adults drawn from the NHANES (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey) data set.\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 Exploratory and confirmatory models indicated that, consistent with allostatic load theory, a unidimensional model was a good fit to the data. However, this model did not display properties of measurement invariance; post-hoc analyses suggested that the biomarkers included in the final confirmatory model were most strongly inter-correlated among young adults, and most weakly inter-correlated among adolescents.\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 These results underscore the importance of testing assumptions about measurement invariance in allostatic load before drawing substantive conclusions about stress, disadvantage, and health by directly comparing levels of allostatic load across different stages of development, while underscoring the need to expand investigations of measurement invariance to samples of longitudinal data.\u0000","PeriodicalId":20918,"journal":{"name":"Psychosomatic Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140445770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}