Martha Brownlee-Duffeck

• Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital

Forty-seven patients with definite rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were treated in a 32 week, double blind, crossover trial of amitriptyline, desipramine, trazodone, and placebo. All drug regimens produced significant changes on pain measures relative to baseline, but only amitriptyline exceeded placebo. Amitriptyline was associated with a significant re...

Operationalized diagnostic criteria for depression were used to assess 137 (76% male, 24% female) patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Forty-two percent met criteria for some form of depression. Discriminant function analysis revealed a significant relationship between the presence or history of depression and higher levels of pain, but not bet...

Administered the SCL-90-R to 78 adult patients with chronic pain, 52 adult patients with spinal cord injury, and a control group of 145 college students. Estimates of internal consistency, represented by coefficient alpha, were .69 for the Somatic Depression subscales and .91 for the Cognitive Depression subscales. Data suggestive of construct vali...

Individuals who are physically disabled are often expected to be depressed and to mourn their condition. It is relatively unknown, however, how these expectations influence psychologists' inferences about the emotional status of those who have a physically stigmatizing condition. Sixty-nine doctoral students in the American Psychological Associatio...

Individuals who are physically disabled are often expected to be depressed and to mourn their condition. It is relatively unknown, however, how these expectations influence psychologists' inferences about the emotional status of those who have a physically stigmatizing condition. Sixty-nine doctoral students in the American Psychological Associatio...

Although research subscales have been developed (Buckelew, DeGood, Schwartz, & Kerler, 1986) to assess the cognitive and somatic item patterning among chronic pain patients using the SCL-90-R, no information is available concerning the reliability or validity of those subscales. This study was designed to assess the internal consistency of these ex...

The current study examined the role of health beliefs in diabetic regimen adherence and metabolic control. The subjects were 143 insulin-dependent diabetic outpatients, including 54 from a university juvenile diabetes care clinic with a mean age of 18 and 89 from a private practice clinic with a mean age of 37. Subject age and knowledge about diabe...

The present study examined the effects of depression and time since injury upon interpersonal response to spinal cord injury. In Experiment 1, 93 undergraduates listened to a scripted audiotape interview of an actor portraying a spinal-cord-injured individual who was either depressed or not depressed and had been injured for 1 or 4 years. In Experi...

Typescript. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri--Columbia, 1983. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-114).