Coping with disease-related stressors in Parkinson's disease

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This study examines three categories of disease-related stressors (i.e.,physical, cognitive, psychosocial), differential coping, and mental andphysical health outcomes in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD).Findings show that tremors, lack of mental energy, and being dependent onothers were the most stressful symptoms in each category. Although therewas evidence that PD patients match coping efforts to types of stressors,emotional regulation was the most common coping strategy. Hierarchicalregression analyses show that disease- related variables influence everydomain of quality of life, whereas the effects of coping are moreselective. Specifically, the use of distancing was related to poorer mentaland physical health outcomes. Findings focus attention on thedisease-related stressors that create the experience of being chronicallyill.

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