In 1965, the Times had reported on a psychiatrist who avowed that "deep-seated psychological sicknesses of various sorts underlie the 'vast majority' of marriages between white persons and Negroes".
The following health outcomes were examined: self-rated health; long standing illness; acute sickness; psychological distress and obesity.
This is consistent with a rapid, transient effect of psychological stress on sickness responses to typhoid vaccine in humans.
In a review Nieuwenhuijsen et al 10 found, however, no effect of medication, alone or combined with psychological interventions, on sickness absence, among workers who were depressed.
Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) Scale [ 38]: is a single-item rating scale for evaluation the overall patient functioning during a specified period on a continuum from psychological or psychiatric sickness to health.
Work-family conflict and stress are linked to general mental and physical health outcomes [ 27– 32]; more chronic physical symptoms; and higher levels of dysphoria, psychological distress, and sickness absence [ 33, 34].
Methods: Multilevel modelling of health survey data on 126 853 individuals from 33 metropolitan areas in the UK, Republic of Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Spain, Belgium and Germany compared general health, longstanding illness, acute sickness, psychological distress and obesity with the average for all areas, accounting for education and social class.
Socio-economic gradients within areas were generally stronger for self-rated health, longstanding illness and obesity, and weaker for psychological distress and acute sickness.
Introduction: Experimental animal studies provided evidence for a synergistic effect of immunological and psychological stressors on subsequent sickness behaviors.
Introduction: Experimental animal studies provided evidence for a synergistic effect of immunological and psychological stressors on subsequent sickness behaviours.
