The role of psychosocial factors in the progression and recurrence of illness : a study of herpes virus infectious illness and chronic fatigue syndrome
The longitudinal studies in this thesis found evidence for a causal relationship between psychological stress/negative mood and the subsequent recurrence of latent herpes virus and URTIs in chronically ill participants. These effects were much clearer than associations between stress and infection i...
Main Author: | Faulkner, Susan |
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Cardiff University
2005
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.583572 |
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