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C Offutt

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PubMed1988

Type A behavior pattern and symptom reports: a prospective investigation.

This study examined the relationship between the Type A Behavior Pattern and reporting of a constellation of physical symptoms related to respiratory infections using a prospective design. The results indicate that Types A and B students did not differ significantly in their reports of the frequency or severity of the constellation of symptoms or of individual symptoms over an 87-day period. Furthermore, there were no type differences in the frequency or severity of the symptom constellation reported during a competitive and highly challenging period of time. In view of the contradiction in previously published reports (i.e., reports of both positive and negative relationships between Type A and symptom reporting) and the robust methodological design utilized in the present study, the wholly negative nature of these findings point strongly to the absence of Type A/B differences in symptom reporting.

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PubMed1988

Type A and genital herpes.

This study investigated a possible relationship between the Type A Behavior Pattern (TABP) and genital herpes, and sought to confirm earlier observations of a relationship between TABP, allergies, and upper respiratory infections. The research participants were 105 members of a herpes self-help group. The subjects conformed to epidemiological evidence of a greater prevalence of genital herpes in young adult women; they were also highly educated and tended to be single and to live in rental accommodations. TABP was measured by Form C of the Jenkins Activity Survey. The Type A subjects were not more prevalent in our sample, and there were no A-B differences in the frequency of recurrences. However, Type A subjects experienced significantly greater symptom severity during recurrences and were more likely to seek symptomatic treatment. The overall pattern of results suggested that these A-B differences in severity likely reflected physiological or immunological differences rather than simply differences in response bias between Type A and B subjects. Finally, the study failed to replicate earlier observations of associations between TABP and allergies, and TABP and respiratory infections.

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