Kathi L Heffner
Biographic Data
| ID | 230912 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathi L Heffner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathi L |
| FAMILY NAME | Heffner |
| SIGNATURE | HEFFNER K L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rochester Medicine |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1095-1873 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mindfulness-based stress reduction and loneliness in older adults
Objectives Loneliness is one of the most robust risk factors for morbidity and accelerated mortality among older adults, and effective interventions are needed. However, interventions to reduce loneliness have shown limited success, especially in this population. Indeed, research suggests that simply increasing social contact might not combat loneliness; instead, addressing the cognitive and emotional mechanisms of loneliness might be more effect…
Effects of mindfulness training on posttraumatic stress symptoms from a community-based pilot clinical trial among survivors of intimate partner violence
Objective: Exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant public health issue associated with deleterious mental and medical health comorbidities, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The hallmark symptoms of posttraumatic stress (PTS), even when not meeting the threshold for a diagnosis of PTSD, appear to be underpinned by poor self-regulation in multiple domains, including emotion, cognitive control, and physiological s…
Social Relationships and Inflammatory Markers in the Midus Cohort
Greater social support may be related to lower IL-6 in older women. Further research is needed to understand observed associations of social support with higher CRP
Identifying attentional deployment tactics in older adults' written narratives about emotionally upsetting events
Essays about distressing events written by 58 older adults on three occasions ( n = 174) were coded to identify how older adults responded when confronting an emotionally upsetting event. Participants limited the experience of negative emotion by transitioning from negative to positive aspects of the event within a writing session, and across sessions, switched writing topics and moved from writing about past events to current problems. The use o…
Moderating Effects of Moderate-Intensity Physical Activity in the Relationship Between Depressive Symptoms and Interleukin-6 in Primary Care Patients
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the relationship between interleukin (IL)-6 and depressive symptoms is moderated by participation in moderate-intensity physical activity in a sample of primary care patients. Elevated inflammation has been associated with a number of poor health outcomes. Depressive symptoms may be related to higher levels of the inflammatory marker IL-6; however, previous findings are inconsistent, possibly due to unidentified mo…
Social isolation, C-reactive protein, and coronary heart disease mortality among community-dwelling adults
Is the association between optimistic cardiovascular risk perceptions and lower rates of cardiovascular disease mortality explained by biomarkers of systemic inflammation or endothelial function? A ca…
BACKGROUND: More optimistic perceptions of cardiovascular disease risk are associated with substantively lower rates of cardiovascular death among men. It remains unknown whether this association represents causality (i.e. perception leads to actions/conditions that influence cardiovascular disease occurrence) or residual confounding by unmeasured factors that associate with risk perceptions and with physiological processes that promote cardiovas…
Stress Hormone Changes and Marital Conflict
We investigated the impact of relative marital power on 72 newlywed couples' endocrinological responses to marital conflict. Marital power was determined by comparing spouses' reports of dependent love for one another. Less powerful spouses displayed elevated adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) responses to a conflict discussion. Shared power appeared to have a beneficial effect on wives' but not husbands' ACTH responses. Spouses' cortisol levels …
Social isolation, C-reactive protein, and coronary heart disease mortality among community-dwelling adults
Stress Hormone Changes and Marital Conflict
We investigated the impact of relative marital power on 72 newlywed couples' endocrinological responses to marital conflict. Marital power was determined by comparing spouses' reports of dependent love for one another. Less powerful spouses displayed elevated adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) responses to a conflict discussion. Shared power appeared to have a beneficial effect on wives' but not husbands' ACTH responses. Spouses' cortisol levels …
Social Relationships and Inflammatory Markers in the Midus Cohort
Greater social support may be related to lower IL-6 in older women. Further research is needed to understand observed associations of social support with higher CRP
Stress Hormone Changes and Marital Conflict
We investigated the impact of relative marital power on 72 newlywed couples' endocrinological responses to marital conflict. Marital power was determined by comparing spouses' reports of dependent love for one another. Less powerful spouses displayed elevated adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) responses to a conflict discussion. Shared power appeared to have a beneficial effect on wives' but not husbands' ACTH responses. Spouses' cortisol levels …
Is the association between optimistic cardiovascular risk perceptions and lower rates of cardiovascular disease mortality explained by biomarkers of systemic inflammation or endothelial function? A ca…
BACKGROUND: More optimistic perceptions of cardiovascular disease risk are associated with substantively lower rates of cardiovascular death among men. It remains unknown whether this association represents causality (i.e. perception leads to actions/conditions that influence cardiovascular disease occurrence) or residual confounding by unmeasured factors that associate with risk perceptions and with physiological processes that promote cardiovas…
Moderating Effects of Moderate-Intensity Physical Activity in the Relationship Between Depressive Symptoms and Interleukin-6 in Primary Care Patients
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the relationship between interleukin (IL)-6 and depressive symptoms is moderated by participation in moderate-intensity physical activity in a sample of primary care patients. Elevated inflammation has been associated with a number of poor health outcomes. Depressive symptoms may be related to higher levels of the inflammatory marker IL-6; however, previous findings are inconsistent, possibly due to unidentified mo…
Social isolation, C-reactive protein, and coronary heart disease mortality among community-dwelling adults
Identifying attentional deployment tactics in older adults' written narratives about emotionally upsetting events
Essays about distressing events written by 58 older adults on three occasions ( n = 174) were coded to identify how older adults responded when confronting an emotionally upsetting event. Participants limited the experience of negative emotion by transitioning from negative to positive aspects of the event within a writing session, and across sessions, switched writing topics and moved from writing about past events to current problems. The use o…
Social Relationships and Inflammatory Markers in the Midus Cohort
Greater social support may be related to lower IL-6 in older women. Further research is needed to understand observed associations of social support with higher CRP
Effects of mindfulness training on posttraumatic stress symptoms from a community-based pilot clinical trial among survivors of intimate partner violence
Objective: Exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant public health issue associated with deleterious mental and medical health comorbidities, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The hallmark symptoms of posttraumatic stress (PTS), even when not meeting the threshold for a diagnosis of PTSD, appear to be underpinned by poor self-regulation in multiple domains, including emotion, cognitive control, and physiological s…
Mindfulness-based stress reduction and loneliness in older adults
Objectives Loneliness is one of the most robust risk factors for morbidity and accelerated mortality among older adults, and effective interventions are needed. However, interventions to reduce loneliness have shown limited success, especially in this population. Indeed, research suggests that simply increasing social contact might not combat loneliness; instead, addressing the cognitive and emotional mechanisms of loneliness might be more effect…
Medicine (6 works) · Internal Medicine (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Cardiac Health and Mental Health (3 works) · Cohort (3 works) · Cohort study (3 works) · Gerontology (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works)