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Immune Function And Health Outcomes In Women With Depression, Cherie Howk, Mary P. Bennett
Immune Function And Health Outcomes In Women With Depression, Cherie Howk, Mary P. Bennett
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This research reports immune function and health outcomes in women with depression, as compared with a nondepressed control group. Using Psychoneuroimmunolgy theory and a descriptive comparison design, scores on the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) were used to divide 40 non-hospitalized Caucasian women between the ages of 18 and 65 years into either the control or depression comparison group. Women with depression were found to report significantly more incidences of illness over the previous two months and they were found to have significantly more indicators of illness at the time of the exam as compared to the controls. However, contrary to …