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H Green

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Spiritual well-being: a predictor of hardiness in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

This study examined the relationship between spiritual well-being and hardiness in a group of 100 subjects who either tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV+) or who had diagnoses of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)-related complex (ARC) or AIDS. Each subject completed the Spiritual Well-Being Scale, the Personal Views Survey (to measure hardiness), and a Demographic Data Survey. Analysis of data included Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficients and multiple regression techniques. The results demonstrated that there was a significant relationship between spiritual well-being and hardiness (multiple R = .4165; P less than .001) as well as between the existential component of spiritual well-being and hardiness (multiple R = .5047; P less than .001). The conclusions of the study are that in this sample those individuals who were spiritually well and who were able to find meaning and purpose in their lives were also hardier. This finding has significance for the care that is provided to persons who are HIV+ or who have diagnoses of ARC or AIDS.

AIDS-Related Complex↗

Measurement of single-breath carbon monoxide transfer factor (diffusing capacity) during progressive exercise.

The transfer factor (diffusing capacity) for carbon monoxide (TLCO) is known to rise with increasing levels of work, but uncertainty remains as to the exact relationship of TLCO and the transfer coefficient (KCO) to oxygen uptake (VO2). We have studied the effects of increasing levels of work on TLCO and KCO in 22 normal male subjects using the single-breath technique and a standardized protocol. Additionally, we have investigated whether young people were different from a middle-age group, the need for carboxyhaemoglobin corrections in current smokers and non-smokers, and the variations of cardiac frequency during breath-holding. Our results show that TLCO and KCO increase in a curvilinear manner up to maximal VO2, a quadratic equation describing the relationship. There was no effect of age up to 50 years. There was no significant increase in the carboxyhaemoglobin levels, and therefore this correction is unnecessary. Cardiac frequency showed no significant variation during the breath-holding manoeuvre, except at rest and at low levels of exercise.

Adult↗

Patients speak out.

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Communication↗