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IMMUNE: Immune against stress? – Validation of the German version of the STRAIN

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  • Stress Response Patterns and Health
    • IMMERSE: Cognitive performance in acute stress
    • COST: Role of Coping Strategies in physiological Responses to acute psychosocial Stress
    • Modification of Biological Stress Response Patterns through Experimental Manipulation of Cognitive Coping Strategies
    • HABIT: Role of Anxiety and Coping Strategies in the Habituation to repeated acute Stress
  • Chronic Stress and Health
    • IMMUNE: Immune against stress? – Validation of the German version of the STRAIN
    • Chronic stress level and functional health in older adults: the impact and role of fear of falling
    • PFCS: Protective Factors in chronically stressed Caregivers
    • STING: German Translation and Evaluation of the Stress and Adversity Inventory (STRAIN)
  • Traumatic Stress and Health
    • POSTRES: Characterization of Acute Stress Responses in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
    • Psychobiologische Behandlungseffekte traumafokussierter Maltherapie bei Patienten mit psychischen und physischen Traumafolgestörungen
  • Anxiety and Coping in the Healthcare System
    • ABI-MS: Coping with Medical Procedures – Development of an Inventory
    • VARD: Repressive Coping and the Verbal Autonomic Response Dissociation in a Simulated Medical Stress Situation
  • Teamwork Performance: Effects of Tracking Based Feedback Mechanisms on Performance and Health Biomarkers
  • Digital Stress
    • Gesund Digital Leben – Der bayerische Forschungsverbund forDigitHealth
    • Teamwork Performance: Effects of Tracking Based Feedback Mechanisms on Performance and Health Biomarkers
  • Stress and Health in the Context of Migration
    • Verbal Violence against Migrants in Institutions (VIOLIN)

IMMUNE: Immune against stress? – Validation of the German version of the STRAIN

IMMUNE: Immune against stress? - Validation of the German version of the STRAIN

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Project leader: Sarah Sturmbauer, Nicolas Rohleder
Start date: 07/03/2017
End date: 03/01/2018
URL: https://www.gesundheitspsychologie.phil.fau.de/forschung/chronischer-stress-und-gesundheit/

Abstract:

In further collaboration with Prof. George Slavich (UCLA) we continue our validation of the German version of  the Stress and Adversity Inventory (STRAIN) with parameters of the cardiovascular- and immune system.

STRAIN is an online tool that assesses a person’s exposure to stress over the life course. Differentiating between acute and chronic events, it measures frequency, severity, and duration of each event. Completing the inventory takes around 30 minutes.

As part of the validation, we investigate in this study the relationship of different indices of the STRAIN with well investigated parameters of cardiovascular function like heart rate variability and blood pressure. The parameters of interest within the immune system are markers of inflammation (Interleukin-6 and Interleukin-10) as well as gene expression of pro- and anti-inflammatory intracellular proteins measured with quantitative real time RT-PCR. Regulation of the HPA axis will be investigated with two diurnal cortisol profiles including wake-up response (CAR) and daily decline. 

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Prof. Dr. Nicolas Rohleder

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