Research on social inequalities is going through a period of resurgence in public health and
epidemiology. The main thrust of the program's empirical studies involves correlations …

There is much interest in whether depression and stress may explain the wide variability in
the disease course of patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This …

An instrument to measure the stigma perceived by people with HIV was developed based on
the literature on stigma and psychosocial aspects of having HIV. Items surviving two rounds …

Objectives. Investigate the psychometric characteristics of the coping self‐efficacy (CSE)
scale, a 26‐item measure of one's confidence in performing coping behaviors when faced …

Receiving positive social support after a trauma generally is related to better adjustment to
the trauma. The personality of trauma survivors may affect the extent to which they seek …

With the current shift to include positive outcomes of trauma, this research was designed to
explore factors that allow growth to occur. Structural equation modeling was used to lest a …

We hypothesize that the social support available from low‐income networks serves primarily
a coping function, rather than a leverage function. Social support and its relationship to …

Coping With Loss describes the many ways in which people cope with the death of
someone they love. Most earlier books on bereavement have fallen into two categories …

Objective This randomized clinical trial was designed to compare the effects of a theory-
based coping effectiveness training (CET) intervention with an active informational control …

Overly simplistic interpretations of the links among social capital, economic development,
public policy and health—in the end—may do a disservice to a progressive agenda for …