Stanislav V Kasl
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 354555 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Stanislav V Kasl |
| NOMBRES | Stanislav V |
| APELLIDO | Kasl |
| FIRMA | KASL S V |
| AFILIACIONES | Yale University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 56 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 323 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1956 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Caring for Grieving Family Members
BACKGROUND: A founding principle of hospice is that the patient and family is the unit of care; however, we lack national information on services to family members. Although Medicare certification requires bereavement services be provided, reimbursement rates are not tied to the level or quality of care; therefore, limited financial incentives exist for hospice to provide more than a minimal benefit. OBJECTIVES: To assess the scope and intensity …
Inequality and the association between involuntary job loss and depressive symptoms
Neighborhood- and individual-level socioeconomic variation in perceptions of racial discrimination
Individual- and neighborhood-level SEP may be important in understanding how racial discrimination is perceived, reported, processed, and how it may influence health. In order to fully assess the role of racism in future studies, inclusion of additional dimensions of discrimination may be warranted
When Parents Matter to Their Adult Children
A neglected topic in aging depression research is the potential role of the parent-adult child relationship. In this study we examined whether adult children's reports of having relied upon parents for instrumental and expressive support are associated with parents' depressive symptoms. The sample included 304 parents (aged 50-72 years), matched to a randomly selected adult offspring, from the University of Southern California Longitudinal Study …
Adequacy of Communicating Results From Screening Mammograms to African American and White Women
Objective. We examined whether African American women were as likely as White women to receive the results of a recent mammogram and to self-report results that matched the mammography radiology report (i.e., were adequately communicated). We also sought to determine whether the adequacy of communication was the same for normal and abnormal results. Methods. From a prospective cohort study of mammography screening, we compared self-reported mammo…
Religious Coping is Associated with the Quality of Life of Patients with Advanced Cancer
BACKGROUND: For patients confronting a life-threatening illness such as advanced cancer, religious coping can be an important factor influencing their quality of life (QOL). OBJECTIVE: The study's main purpose was to examine the association between religious coping and QOL among 170 patients with advanced cancer. Both positive religious coping (e.g., benevolent religious appraisals) and negative religious coping (e.g., anger at God) and multiple …
The Role of Pain in the Recovery of Instrumental and Social Functioning After Hip Fracture
Interventions to control pain may enhance functional status after hip fracture; however, pain relief must be maintained to sustain recovery. Attention to the complex relationships among pain, depressive symptoms, and physical impairments should inform intervention development
Response To
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 and Yale School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, New Haven, CT 06520-8034 The authors of this letter were invited to reply to Gary Smith’s “Idler and Kasi p Values: A Cautiionary Lessan,” which appears in this issue
The Effect of Spousal Mental and Physical Health on Husbands' and Wives' Depressive Symptoms, Among Older Adults
Our findings suggest that health care providers treating older adults should be sensitive to the possibility that spouses may be affected when clients suffer poor mental or physical health
Intended use of informal long‐term care
Psychosocial factors, particularly social norms concerning family caregiving, mediated the relationship between race/ethnicity and intended use of informal long-term care. A fuller appreciation of the multiple influences on healthcare decision making of older adults has the potential to inform policy efforts to appropriately meet the respective long-term care needs of an ethnically diverse frail older population
Development of the chronic fatigue syndrome in severely fatigued employees
Study objective: To identify risk factors of the development of the chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), the persistence or recurrence of fatigue, or recovery from fatigue in a large sample of fatigued employees. Design: Analyses were based on the Maastricht cohort study (MCS), a prospective population based cohort study among more than 12 000 employees. Multiple regression models were used to identify predictors of CFS-like caseness (meeting research…
Association Between Depression and Elevated C-Reactive Protein
OBJECTIVE: Depression has been related to a higher risk of developing coronary heart disease, but the mechanism that accounts for this association is unclear. Because atherosclerosis is an inflammatory process, depression could increase the risk of coronary heart disease by inducing or promoting inflammation. The objective of the present study was to investigate the association between history of major depressive episode and presence of low-grade…
Impact of Husbands' Involuntary Job Loss on Wives' Mental Health, Among Older Adults
There is limited evidence among this cohort that husbands' job loss increases wives' subsequent depressive symptoms. However, the effect of husbands' job loss on wives' mental health appears to be magnified when wives report being financially satisfied pre-job loss. This suggests that, for subgroups of older couples, mental health services specifically targeted at displaced men should also be made available to wives
Psychiatric Disorders Among Bereaved Persons
Expanding the Andersen Model
Objective. To examine a prevailing conceptual model of health services use ( Andersen 1995 ) and to suggest modifications that may enhance its explanatory power when applied to empirical studies of race/ethnicity and long‐term care. Study Setting. Twelve focus groups of African‐American (five groups) and white (seven groups) individuals, aged 65 and older, residing in Connecticut during 2000. Study Design. Using qualitative analysis, data were co…
Are Religious Women More Likely to Have Breast Cancer Screening?
Types of Marital Closeness and Mortality Risk in Older Couples
OBJECTIVE: This study examines the impact of marital closeness on survival over 6 years in a community-dwelling sample of 305 older couples. METHOD: Closeness is defined as 1) naming one's spouse as a confidant or source of emotional support (vs. not naming) and 2) being named by spouse on at least one of the two dimensions (vs. not being named). The survival effects of both naming and being named are examined in Cox proportional hazard regressio…
Depression and Risk of Heart Failure Among the Elderly
OBJECTIVE: Although the association between depression and the incidence of coronary heart disease has been established in many studies, the impact of depression on the incidence of heart failure has not been previously investigated. METHODS: We examined the effect of depression (assessed by means of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) with a cutoff point of > or =21) on the incidence of heart failure in a community sa…
Rates and Risks of Complicated Grief Among Psychiatric Clinic Patients in Karachi, Pakistan
The aim of this study was to determine rates and risks of Complicated Grief (CG) among psychiatric clinic patients in Karachi, Pakistan. The Inventory of Traumatic Grief, an early version of Inventory of Complicated Grief--Revised, was administered to 151 recently bereaved patients, with validated criteria applied to determine CG "caseness." Thirty-four percent of the sample met criteria for CG. Although violent deaths did not pose a heightened C…
Longevity increased by positive self-perceptions of aging
Excess type 2 diabetes in African-American women and men aged 40–74 and socioeconomic status
OBJECTIVE: To examine whether socioeconomic status (SES) explains differences in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes between African-American and non-Hispanic white women and men. DESIGN: Cross sectional study of diabetes prevalence, SES, and other risk factors ascertained by physical examination and interview. SETTING: Interviews were conducted in subjects' homes; physical examinations were conducted in mobile examination centres. PARTICIPANTS: 96…
Stressful Life Events and Depressive Symptoms among the Elderly
We examined the effect of a series of common stressful life events on change in depressive symptoms among the elderly. The subjects were 1,962 noninstitutionalized people 65 years of age or older from the New Haven EPESE project. Multivariate regression models revealed that 8 of 11 stressful life events examined predicted change in depressive symptoms at follow-up (1985) after controlling for baseline depressive symptoms age, socioeconomic factor…
We're Putting it All Together
New Directions
Financial Strain and Symptoms of Depression in a Community Sample of Elderly Men and Women
For many older Americans, managing economic resources is a considerable challenge, often resulting in chronic financial strain. This study examines the impact of financial strain on one domain of distress: symptoms of depression. Data came from a longitudinal study of a representative community sample of an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse elderly population. In multivariate analysis, financial strain was strongly associated with concurre…
Relationship of disturbances and hesitations in spontaneous speech to anxiety
Past work has indicated that or confused speech can be classed into several distinct speech disturbance categories. Such disturbances, occurring frequently in everyday conversation, have no conventional semantic function. In the present study, 25 experimental and 20 control male Ss were used. Anxiety was manipulated in an interview setting. Under anxiety, the frequency of all speech disturbances, except the familiar ah, showed a sizable increase.…
Longevity increased by positive self-perceptions of aging
Religion, Disability, Depression, and the Timing of Death
Despite its importance in Durkheim's work, the subject of religion's influence on health and well-being is rarely addressed in contemporary sociological research. This study of elderly persons in New Haven, Connecticut, examines the prospective relationship between religious involvement and several aspects of health status. Results show significant protective effects of public religious in volvement against disability among men and women and of p…
Neighborhood- and individual-level socioeconomic variation in perceptions of racial discrimination
Individual- and neighborhood-level SEP may be important in understanding how racial discrimination is perceived, reported, processed, and how it may influence health. In order to fully assess the role of racism in future studies, inclusion of additional dimensions of discrimination may be warranted
When Parents Matter to Their Adult Children
A neglected topic in aging depression research is the potential role of the parent-adult child relationship. In this study we examined whether adult children's reports of having relied upon parents for instrumental and expressive support are associated with parents' depressive symptoms. The sample included 304 parents (aged 50-72 years), matched to a randomly selected adult offspring, from the University of Southern California Longitudinal Study …
The Effect of Spousal Mental and Physical Health on Husbands' and Wives' Depressive Symptoms, Among Older Adults
Our findings suggest that health care providers treating older adults should be sensitive to the possibility that spouses may be affected when clients suffer poor mental or physical health
Impact of Husbands' Involuntary Job Loss on Wives' Mental Health, Among Older Adults
There is limited evidence among this cohort that husbands' job loss increases wives' subsequent depressive symptoms. However, the effect of husbands' job loss on wives' mental health appears to be magnified when wives report being financially satisfied pre-job loss. This suggests that, for subgroups of older couples, mental health services specifically targeted at displaced men should also be made available to wives
Rates and Risks of Complicated Grief Among Psychiatric Clinic Patients in Karachi, Pakistan
The aim of this study was to determine rates and risks of Complicated Grief (CG) among psychiatric clinic patients in Karachi, Pakistan. The Inventory of Traumatic Grief, an early version of Inventory of Complicated Grief--Revised, was administered to 151 recently bereaved patients, with validated criteria applied to determine CG "caseness." Thirty-four percent of the sample met criteria for CG. Although violent deaths did not pose a heightened C…
Work Status, Work Satisfaction, and Blood Pressure Among Married Black and White Women
This study examined blood pressure levels of married women in relation to such work-related variables as work load, satisfaction with work, reported strain, and evaluated performance. The major findings were: (a) Differences in work load were unrelated to blood pressure levels. However, currently unemployed working women had lower levels. (b) Housewives reporting tension about housework and being critical of own performance had higher blood press…
Financial Strain and Symptoms of Depression in a Community Sample of Elderly Men and Women
For many older Americans, managing economic resources is a considerable challenge, often resulting in chronic financial strain. This study examines the impact of financial strain on one domain of distress: symptoms of depression. Data came from a longitudinal study of a representative community sample of an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse elderly population. In multivariate analysis, financial strain was strongly associated with concurre…
Mental Health and the Urban Environment
Interviews assessing perceptions and evaluations of the residential environment and selected indicators qf mental health and well-being were conducted with 1000 residents of four carefully selected census tracts of Detroit. Two tracts were stress (low on socioeconomic indices and high on rates of crime and marital and residential instability) and two were low stress areas; one tract in each group was predominantly black or largely white
Intended use of informal long‐term care
Psychosocial factors, particularly social norms concerning family caregiving, mediated the relationship between race/ethnicity and intended use of informal long-term care. A fuller appreciation of the multiple influences on healthcare decision making of older adults has the potential to inform policy efforts to appropriately meet the respective long-term care needs of an ethnically diverse frail older population
Excess type 2 diabetes in African-American women and men aged 40–74 and socioeconomic status
OBJECTIVE: To examine whether socioeconomic status (SES) explains differences in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes between African-American and non-Hispanic white women and men. DESIGN: Cross sectional study of diabetes prevalence, SES, and other risk factors ascertained by physical examination and interview. SETTING: Interviews were conducted in subjects' homes; physical examinations were conducted in mobile examination centres. PARTICIPANTS: 96…
Inequality and the association between involuntary job loss and depressive symptoms
Adequacy of Communicating Results From Screening Mammograms to African American and White Women
Objective. We examined whether African American women were as likely as White women to receive the results of a recent mammogram and to self-report results that matched the mammography radiology report (i.e., were adequately communicated). We also sought to determine whether the adequacy of communication was the same for normal and abnormal results. Methods. From a prospective cohort study of mammography screening, we compared self-reported mammo…
Stressful Life Events and Depressive Symptoms among the Elderly
We examined the effect of a series of common stressful life events on change in depressive symptoms among the elderly. The subjects were 1,962 noninstitutionalized people 65 years of age or older from the New Haven EPESE project. Multivariate regression models revealed that 8 of 11 stressful life events examined predicted change in depressive symptoms at follow-up (1985) after controlling for baseline depressive symptoms age, socioeconomic factor…
The Health Impact of Living with a Cognitively Impaired Elderly Spouse
The purpose of this study was to identify the health consequences of living with a cognitively impaired spouse in a sample of 318 spouse pairs, drawn from a representative sample of noninstitutionalized elderly individuals. Our principal findings were that (a) cognitive impairment in wives was significantly (p < .05) associated with elevated systolic blood pressure in husbands, whereas cognitive impairment in husbands was not associated with syst…
The effects of social support on nuclear worker responses to the Three Mile Island accident
This study examines the effects of social support on the reactions of nuclear workers at the Three Mile Island plant and a comparison site to stress during the 1979 crisis. Results show broad main effects of social support on stress, strain, and health outcome variables. Moderating effects of support are highly selective and become less extensive as the hypothesized stress process moves from stress to strain to health outcomes. Findings are compa…
Psychosocial correlates of serum urate levels
The Effects of Occupational Status on Physical and Mental Health 1
Effects of parental status incongruence and discrepancy on physical and mental health of adult offspring
This report is concerned with the effects of discrepancy and incongruence in the educational and occupational status of parents—herei n called status stress —on the physical and mental health of adult offspring. The Ss in the study were about 250 men and women; i of them came from a national survey sample, while the other 1 represented an arthritis clinic sample with patients and controls. The major findings were: (a) Women with arthritis were mo…
A simple device for obtaining certain verbal activity measures during interviews
A simple device for obtaining certain verbal activity measures during interviews
The Effects of Occupational Status on Physical and Mental Health 1
The development of a projective measure of the need for independence
Relationship of disturbances and hesitations in spontaneous speech to anxiety
Past work has indicated that or confused speech can be classed into several distinct speech disturbance categories. Such disturbances, occurring frequently in everyday conversation, have no conventional semantic function. In the present study, 25 experimental and 20 control male Ss were used. Anxiety was manipulated in an interview setting. Under anxiety, the frequency of all speech disturbances, except the familiar ah, showed a sizable increase.…
Health Behavior, Illness Behavior and Sick Role behavior
Effects of parental status incongruence and discrepancy on physical and mental health of adult offspring
This report is concerned with the effects of discrepancy and incongruence in the educational and occupational status of parents—herei n called status stress —on the physical and mental health of adult offspring. The Ss in the study were about 250 men and women; i of them came from a national survey sample, while the other 1 represented an arthritis clinic sample with patients and controls. The major findings were: (a) Women with arthritis were mo…
Blood Pressure Changes in Men Undergoing Job Loss
A longitudinal study was made of blood pressure (BP) changes in married, stably employed men who lose their jobs because of a permanent plant shutdown. Some 150 men, including controls, were seen and followed up to 2 years. Major findings were as follows: (1) The controls showed no significant long-term trends, (2) BP levels during anticipation of job loss and unemployment or probationary re-employment were clearly higher than during later stabil…
Psychosocial correlates of serum urate levels
Relationship of Distortion in Self-Reports of Grades and Extracurricular Activities to the Crowne-Marlowe Measure of Approval Motive
Among some 150 young men, the Crowne-Marlowe scale of need for social approval correlated positively with the amount of distortion (in a socially desirable direction) in self-reports of grades and extracurricular activities. However, this relationship held only among those for whom these events were not so recent and who could reasonably believe that their reports' accuracy would not be checked. For these same individuals, two measures of fear of…
First and repeat abortions
In a sample of 345 women aborting at a New York clinic, women having a repeat abortion had delayed significantly less in seeking abortion than had women aborting for the first time. Those having a repeat abortion were more likely to anticipate, suspect and acknowledge pregnancy, and to have located the abortion clinic more rapidly, once the decision to have an abortion was made. Psychological reactions to the decision did not differ between women…
The Experience of Losing a Job
Changes in health and in behavior related to health-illness were described in men whose jobs were abolished because of a permanent plant closing. Fluctuations in several measures based on a 2 week health diary (Days Complaint, Days Disability, Percent Days Complaint That Are Also Days Disability, Days Saw Doctor, Days Used Drugs), as well as in other indicators (Symptoms, Depression, Dissatisfaction with Social Support) were analyzed as the men w…
The world of the urban working class
Mental Health and the Urban Environment
Interviews assessing perceptions and evaluations of the residential environment and selected indicators qf mental health and well-being were conducted with 1000 residents of four carefully selected census tracts of Detroit. Two tracts were stress (low on socioeconomic indices and high on rates of crime and marital and residential instability) and two were low stress areas; one tract in each group was predominantly black or largely white
Work Status, Work Satisfaction, and Blood Pressure Among Married Black and White Women
This study examined blood pressure levels of married women in relation to such work-related variables as work load, satisfaction with work, reported strain, and evaluated performance. The major findings were: (a) Differences in work load were unrelated to blood pressure levels. However, currently unemployed working women had lower levels. (b) Housewives reporting tension about housework and being critical of own performance had higher blood press…
Selected Psychosocial Models and Correlates of Individual Health-Related Behaviors
This dataset comprises interviews conducted between 2016 and 2018 with health service users, health professionals and health system managers in the Municipality of São Paulo, Brazil. The interviews focused in particular on the primary health care services covering two of the poorest sub-municipal districts, Cidade Tiradentes and Sapopemba. The Unequal Voices project – Vozes Desiguais in Portuguese – aimed to strengthen the evidence base on the po…
Psychosocial Risk Factors in the Developmental of Infectious Mononucleosis
In a 4-year prospective seroepidemiological study of infectious mononucleosis (IM) of one class of some 1400 cadets at the West Point Military Academy, susceptibles and immunes were identified by the absence or presence of antibody to Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), the causative agent, and new infections by the appearance of antibody (seroconversion). On entry, about 1/3 lacked EBV antibody, of whom some 20% became infected (seroconverted); about 1/4 …
Dr. Kasl's Response
Dr. Kasl's Response Stanislav V. Kasl CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.70.2.181-a Published Online: October 07, 2011
Crowding in Prison
The relationship between change in mode of housing and corresponding blood pressure (BP) change was investigated among 568 male prisoners as an analogue to animal studies which have shown that crowding elevates BP. The transfer from single occupancy cells to multiple occupancy dormitories was associated with a statistically significant mean increase in systolic blood pressure (SBP). In contrast, men who remained in single cells had little mean ch…
The effects of work site, supervisory status, and job function on nuclear workers' responses to the TMI accident
This study examines the impact of the Three Mile Island accident on nuclear workers ( N = 622) at the accident site and a ‘control’ plant in the same general area. Effects of the accident are examined by respondents' plant location, supervisory status, and basic job function. Major accident effects include perceived radiation exposure during the incident, evacuation behaviour, uncertainty and conflict regarding the accident, job related attitudes…
Health Consequences of the Experience of Migration
In recent decades, there has been remarkable growth in scientific research examining the multiple ways in which racism can adversely affect health. This interest has been driven in part by the striking persistence of racial/ethnic inequities in health and ...Read More
Psychosocial Predictors of Mortality Among the Elderly Poor
Zuckerman, D. M., S. V. Kasl (Yale U. School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510) and A. M. Ostfeld. Psychosocial predictors of mortality among the elderly poor: the role of religion, well-being, and social contacts. Am J Epidemiol 1984; 119: 41–23. Mortality data during a two-year follow-up were obtained on some 400 elderly poor residents of New Haven, Hartford, and West Haven, Connecticut, in 1972–1974. These subjects were cases and controls in a …
Commentary
Depressive Symptoms in Relation to Physical Health and Functioning in the Elderly
The associations between depressive symptoms and functional disability and chronic conditions are examined in an elderly cohort of 2,806 noninstitutionalized men and women living in New Haven, Connecticut who were interviewed in 1982 as a part of the Yale Health and Aging Project. The aim is to explore several potential sources of invalidity in using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression scale (CES-D) to measure depressive symptoms in e…
The effects of social support on nuclear worker responses to the Three Mile Island accident
This study examines the effects of social support on the reactions of nuclear workers at the Three Mile Island plant and a comparison site to stress during the 1979 crisis. Results show broad main effects of social support on stress, strain, and health outcome variables. Moderating effects of support are highly selective and become less extensive as the hypothesized stress process moves from stress to strain to health outcomes. Findings are compa…
The measurement of grief
Age and sex variation in the expression of grief were examined using a structured assessment to test clinically based impressions that (1) widowers by comparison with widows and (2) older bereaved persons by comparison with middle‐aged counterparts would report distinctive aspects of grief and less intense distress. One hundred and fourteen acutely bereaved spouses were interviewed one month after a loss. The psychological assessment used was des…
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