2005 APS Practice-Relevant Abstracts

The following abstracts have been selected as having the highest potential to change clinical practice from the perspective of either screening, diagnosis or treatment. They have also been identified in the final conference program where they appear.

CITATION POSTERS
1) ABSTRACT 1717
IMPACT OF LARGE-SCALE POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAM ON OBESITY, HYPERTENSION AND MENTAL HEALTH IN ADULTS
Lia Fernald, Medicine, University of San Francisco, Berkeley, CA, Paul Gertler, Public Health, University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

4) ABSTRACT 1455
THE EFFECTS OF A WORKBOOK-JOURNAL IN REDUCING DEPRESSION AND POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER IN RURAL/SOCIALLY ISOLATED WOMEN NEWLY DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER
Cheryl Koopman, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Mary Anne Kreshka, Sierra College, Nevada City, CA, Balazs I. Bodai, Breast Health Center, Kaiser Permanente, Sacramento, CA, Xin-Hua Chen, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Karyn L. Angell, Chronic Illness Research Group & Women’s Health, Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, OR, Therese Nakata, Helene Wolf, Breast Health Center, Kaiser Permanente, Sacramento, CA, Kathy Graddy, Graddy Graphic Design, San Francisco, CA, Rebecca Parsons, Grass Valley, CA, Patricia Donnelly, Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital, Grass Valley, CA, Dorothy Hitchcock, Nevada City, CA

9) ABSTRACT 1444
EVALUATION OF GUIDED IMAGERY’S EFFECT ON POST-SURGICAL PARAMETERS
Jeffrey M. Walch, Bruce S. Rabin, Pathology, Richard Day, Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

PAPERS
ABSTRACT 1618
TELEPHONE-BASED STRESS MANAGEMENT FOR PATIENTS AWAITING LUNG TRANSPLANTATION: THE INSPIRE STUDY
Michael A. Babyak, James A. Blumenthal, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, Robert M. Carney, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, Francis J. Keefe, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, R. Duane Davis, Thoracic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, Rick LaCaille, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical School, Durham, NC, Priti Parekh, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, Kenneth E. Freedland, Department of Psychiatry, Elbert P. Trulock, III, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, Scott M. Palmer, Department of Medicine/Pulmonary Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC

ABSTRACT 1101
IMPACT OF TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION ON VASCULAR FUNCTION IN AFRICAN AMERICAN ADOLESCENTS
Vernon A. Barnes, Georgia Prevention Institute, Pediatrics, Surender Malhotra, Cardiology, Frank A. Treiber, Georgia Prevention Institute, Dept of Pediatrics, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA

POSTERS
ABSTRACT 1453
LIFESTYLE CHANGES AND CORONARY RISK IN THE MULTISITE CARDIAC LIFESTYLE INTERVENTION PROGRAM: RESULTS FROM THE 12 WEEK FOLLOW-UP
Jennifer J. Daubenmier, Gerdi Weidner, Michael D. Sumner, Ute Schulz, Preventive Medicine Research Institute, Sausalito, CA, Terri Merritt-Worden, Joli Studley, Highmark BCBS, Pittsburgh, PA, Dean Ornish, Preventive Medicine Research Institute, Sausalito, CA

ABSTRACT 1591
NEGATIVE LIFE EVENTS AND WEIGHT GAIN IN WOMEN AT MID-LIFE
Tené Lewis, Susan Everson-Rose, Kelly Karavolos, Lynda Powell, Preventive Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, Karen Matthews, Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

ABSTRACT 1700
PERSISTENT POST-SURGICAL DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS AND LONG-TERM SURVIVAL FOLLOWING CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY
John M. Ruiz, Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, Karen A. Matthews, Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, Michael F. Scheier, Jeremy Wortman, Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Richard Schulz, Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

SYMPOSIA
INDIVIDUAL ABSTRACT 1152 (SYMPOSIUM 1137)
COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL STRESS MANAGEMENT (CBSM) EFFECTS ON REGRESSION OF CERVICAL DYSPLASIA AMONG HIV+ WOMEN
Deidre Pereira, Clinical & Health Psychology, U of FL, Gainesville, FL, Michael Antoni, Psychology, U of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, Mary Ann Fletcher, Medicine, U of Miami, Miami, FL, Mary Jo O’Sullivan, OB/GYN, U of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

INDIVIDUAL ABSTRACT 1420 (SYMPOSIUM 1121)
CAN CHANGES IN LIFESTYLE AFFECT CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE AND QUALITY OF LIFE? RESULTS FROM THREE CARDIAC INTERVENTION PROGRAMS
Gerdi Weidner, Preventive Medicine Research Institute,, Sausalito, CA, Dean Ornish, Preventive Medicine Research Institute, Sausalito CA, Sausalito, CA

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