2007 Final Program - Society of Behavioral Medicine

2007 SBM Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions March 21-24, 2007 FINAL PROGRAM
Rapid Communications Posters Friday, March 23, 2007 • 6:30 PM-8:00 PM • Poster Session C
reported more realistic control perceived greater effectiveness in
coping with chemotherapy (p= .029). Furthermore, and as expected,
results indicated that realistic control was positively correlated
to optimism (p=.003). Coping efficacy and optimism were also
positively related (p=.012). In a follow-up study with these women
two years later, use of positive reframing was positively correlated to
post-traumatic growth (p=.054). These results suggest that realistic
and unrealistic control perceptions may be important determinants
of effective coping with treatment for breast cancer. Implications
and limitations are discussed.
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Steve G. Caloudas, BA, Houston
Baptist University, Houston, TX, 77056; scaloudas@yahoo.com
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DEPRESSION, ANXIETY AND NATURAL KILLER CELL
CYTOTOXICITY IN MEN TREATED FOR PROSTATE
CANCER
Eric S. Zhou, BS, 1 Frank J. Penedo, PhD, 1 , 2 Lara Traeger, MS, 1
Mikal Rasheed, BS, 1 Bonnie Blomberg, PhD, 3 Mary Anne Fletcher,
PhD, 3 Neil Schneiderman, PhD 1 and Michael H. Antoni, PhD 1 , 2
1
Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL; 2 Sylvester
Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Coral Gables,
FL and 3 Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami,
Coral Gables, FL.
Treatment for prostate cancer (PC) is often associated with the
development of side effects including urinary, bowel and sexual
dysfunction and compromises in general quality of life. Research
indicates that natural killer cell cytotoxicity (NKCC) is negatively
associated with both anxiety and depression in the general
population, but there has been minimal work conducted with
PC patients. The current study examined relationships among
depression, anxiety and NKCC in men treated for PC. Participants
were men (N=125) who had received either radical prostatectomy
or radiation therapy for localized PC, with an average age of 63.9
years (SD=7.2), average yearly income of $50,570 (SD=$44,300)
and an average of 14.0 years of education (SD=3.4). Severity of
depression was assessed using the Beck Depression Inventory,
anxiety with the Profile of Mood States and NKCC using a Cr51
release assay against the k562 cell line with a 1:1 target to effector
cell ratio. Results indicated that greater NKCC was negatively and
significantly associated with less depression (r=-.21) and less anxiety
(r=-.23; both ps