5 Written Questions

1. High Effort and Low Reward leads to high risk of CHD
2. Had the idea for Type "A"
3. CAD patients with higher support had lower mortality rates
4. Shows that lower SES -> more health risk behavior
5. Found a positive correlation between income inequality and tuberculosis

5 Matching Questions

1. The three types of social support are...
2. Kittelson - Job Strain and US Doctors
3. Brummett - Associations Among Perceptions of Social Support,
   Negative Affect, and
   Quality of Sleep in Caregivers and Non-Caregivers
4. Barefoot - Recovery expectations and long-term prognosis of patients with coronary heart disease
5. Chaix - Individual/neighborhood social factors and blood pressure

1. a Doctors who had low SES during childhood were at 2.4 times higher risk of CHD
2. b The results suggest that the relation between caregiving and Sleep Quality may be mediated by Negative Affect and Social Support.
3. c Found that Depression, Social Support, and Functional Status were significantly correlated with CHD,----- meaning that higher recovery expectations = better prognosis
4. d Quantitative
   Tangible
   Emotional
5. e Lower education and lower neighborhood education = higher blood pressure

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. High Effort and Low Reward -> high risk
   1. Siegrist - risk rate of Job Strain
   2. House - Social Isolation
   3. Berkman - Social Isolation
   4. Schnall - Health Effects of Job Strain
2. Showed increased mortality rates with those who have less social ties
   1. Ruberman - Social Isolation in CHD patients
   2. Blazer - Social Isolation in Durham
   3. Berkman - Social Isolation
   4. House - Social Isolation
3. Shows increase of CAD with increase of hostility, men more than women
   1. Williams - Hostility and CAD
   2. Berkman - Social Isolation
   3. Williams - Anger Proneness and CHD Risk
   4. Barefoot - Hostility and CAD in USAF
4. CHD may be linked to smoking, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol
   1. Friedman
   2. Framington study
   3. Blumenthal
   4. MRFIT study
5. Worse neighborhoods = higher blood glucose/ diabetes risk
   1. Brummett - Perceived Social Support & Mortality in CAD Patients
   2. Brummett - Systolic blood pressure, socioeconomic status, and biobehavioral risk factors
   3. Brummett - +Neighborhood+ Characteristics Moderate Effects of Caregiving on Plasma Glucose
   4. Brummett - Social Support and Depressive Symptoms and Mortality in CAD Patients

5 True/False Questions

1. Iribarren - Hostility and Coronary Artery Calcification → Shows that smokers have higher CAD rate than non smokers, and that hostility had more effect on non-smokers in getting CAD than in smokers

   True        False

2. Blumenthal → Found that hostility correlates with CHD severity

   True        False

3. Heraclides - Stress at work doubles risk of type II diabetes in middle-aged women → Those with high Demands, low Control and low social support at work were twice as likely to develop type II diabetes

   True        False

4. MRFIT study → CHD may be linked to smoking, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol

   True        False

5. Brummett - Social Support and Depressive Symptoms and Mortality in CAD Patients → CAD patients with higher support had lower mortality rates

   True        False