List of works by Gail Ironson

A path model of the effects of spirituality on depressive symptoms and 24-h urinary-free cortisol in HIV-positive persons.

scientific article published in July 2006

Alexithymia is linked to neurocognitive, psychological, neuroendocrine, and immune dysfunction in persons living with HIV.

scientific article published on November 2013

Alexithymia, Assertiveness and Psychosocial Functioning in HIV: Implications for Medication Adherence and Disease Severity

scientific article published on 5 July 2015

An increase in religiousness/spirituality occurs after HIV diagnosis and predicts slower disease progression over 4 years in people with HIV.

scientific article published in December 2006

Assessing the Relationship Between Religious Involvement and Health Behaviors

scientific article published on 7 July 2016

Assessing the Role of Race/Ethnicity in the Relationships Among Spiritual Struggles, Health, and Well-Being

scientific article published on 2 March 2017

Associations Among Trajectories of Sleep Disturbance, Depressive Symptomology and 24-Hour Urinary Cortisol in HIV+ Women Following a Stress Management Intervention

scientific article published on 20 February 2018

Benevolent Images of God, Gratitude, and Physical Health Status

scientific article published on August 2015

Breast cancer patients have improved immune and neuroendocrine functions following massage therapy

scientific article published in July 2004

Change in urinary cortisol excretion mediates the effect of angry/hostile mood on 9 month diastolic blood pressure in HIV+ adults

scientific article published on 2 February 2017

Cognitive-behavioral interventions improve quality of life in women with AIDS.

scientific article published in March 2003

Compassionate Love as a Predictor of Reduced HIV Disease Progression and Transmission Risk

scientific article

Concerns about breast cancer and relations to psychosocial well-being in a multiethnic sample of early-stage patients

scientific article published in March 1999

Conscientiousness predicts disease progression (CD4 number and viral load) in people living with HIV.

scientific article published in July 2007

Conservation of resources and coping self-efficacy predicting distress following a natural disaster: A causal model analysis where the environment meets the mind

article

Coping and psychological distress among symptomatic HIV+ men who have sex with men.

scientific article published in January 2003

Depression and Survival in a 17-Year Longitudinal Study of People With HIV: Moderating Effects of Race and Education

scientific article

Dispositional optimism and the mechanisms by which it predicts slower disease progression in HIV: proactive behavior, avoidant coping, and depression

scientific article

Do positive psychosocial factors predict disease progression in HIV-1? A review of the evidence

scientific article published on June 2008

Do religious and spiritual identity confer risk for hypertension via psychosocial and lifestyle factors?

scientific article published in December 2017

Does distress tolerance moderate the impact of major life events on psychosocial variables and behaviors important in the management of HIV?

scientific article published on 31 May 2007

Does religiosity predict attrition from a culturally-informed family treatment for schizophrenia that targets religious coping?

scientific article

Emotional expression and depth processing of trauma and their relation to long-term survival in patients with HIV/AIDS.

scientific article published in March 2003

Enhancing the health of women living with HIV: the SMART/EST Women's Project

scientific article

Ethnicity moderates the relationship between perceived stress and benefit finding in HIV+ men who have sex with men (MSM).

scientific article published in April 2014

Everything changed: spiritual transformation in people with HIV.

scientific article published in January 2009

Externalizing religious health beliefs and health and well-being outcomes

scientific article published on 2 July 2016

Gender-specific effects of an augmented written emotional disclosure intervention on posttraumatic, depressive, and HIV-disease-related outcomes: a randomized, controlled trial

scientific article published on 17 December 2012

Health and Well-Being Among the Non-religious: Atheists, Agnostics, and No Preference Compared with Religious Group Members

scientific article

Health locus of control beliefs and healthy survival with AIDS.

scientific article published in December 2012

Impact of stressful death or divorce in people with HIV: A prospective examination and the buffering effects of religious coping and social support

scientific article published on August 2017

Improving dietary habits in disadvantaged women with HIV/AIDS: the SMART/EST women's project

scientific article published on June 2006

In the Shadow of Death: Religious Hope as a Moderator of the Effects of Age on Death Anxiety

scientific article published on 10 April 2016

Increases in a marker of immune system reconstitution are predated by decreases in 24-h urinary cortisol output and depressed mood during a 10-week stress management intervention in symptomatic HIV-infected men.

scientific article

Interhemispheric Asymmetries and Theta Activity in the Rostral Anterior Cingulate Cortex as EEG Signature of HIV-Related Depression: Gender Matters

scientific article published on 6 January 2015

Life stress and cervical squamous intraepithelial lesions in women with human papillomavirus and human immunodeficiency virus

scientific article

Lifetime Trauma, Praying for Others, and C-Reactive Protein

scientific article

Longitudinal spiritual coping with trauma in people with HIV: implications for health care

scientific article published on March 2014

Mood disorders in the medically ill: scientific review and recommendations

scientific article

Natural killer cells and lymphocytes increase in women with breast cancer following massage therapy

scientific article

Neighborhood conditions, religious coping, and uncontrolled hypertension

scientific article published on 27 August 2016

People living with HIV: sources of information on antiretroviral treatment and preferences for involvement in treatment decision-making

scientific article published in January 2007

Perceived stress and norepinephrine predict the effectiveness of response to protease inhibitors in HIV.

scientific article

Plasma neuropeptide Y: a biomarker for symptom severity in chronic fatigue syndrome

scientific article

Positive emotional well-being, health Behaviors, and inflammation measured by C-Reactive protein

scientific article

Psychological Distress Mediates the Effect of Alexithymia on 2-Year Change in HIV Viral Load.

scientific article published on 23 November 2016

Psychosocial factors predict CD4 and viral load change in men and women with human immunodeficiency virus in the era of highly active antiretroviral treatment

scientific article published in November 2005

Psychosocial responses to treatment for breast cancer among lesbian and heterosexual women.

scientific article published in January 2006

Randomized clinical trial of cognitive behavioral stress management on human immunodeficiency virus viral load in gay men treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy

scientific article

Receiving Support, Giving Support, Neighborhood Conditions, and Waist/Hip Ratios

scientific article published on 25 January 2016

Reductions in depressed mood and denial coping during cognitive behavioral stress management with HIV-Positive gay men treated with HAART.

scientific article

Relationship Between Spiritual Coping and Survival in Patients with HIV.

scientific article

Religious Involvement, Financial Strain, and Poly-Drug Use: Exploring the Moderating Role of Meaning in Life

scientific article

Religious involvement and happiness: Assessing the mediating role of compassion and helping others

scientific article published on 19 May 2017

Robust links between religious/spiritual struggles, psychological distress, and well-being in a national sample of American adults

scientific article published on 24 August 2015

Sleep disturbance mediates the association between psychological distress and immune status among HIV-positive men and women on combination antiretroviral therapy

scientific article published in March 2003

Social Support Mediates Loneliness and Human Herpesvirus Type 6 (HHV-6) Antibody Titers

scientific article

Social support, positive states of mind, and HIV treatment adherence in men and women living with HIV/AIDS.

scientific article published in July 2004

Spiritual Struggles and Interleukin-6: Assessing Potential Benefits and Potential Risks

scientific article published in January 2017

Spiritual Struggles and Problem Drinking: Are Younger Adults at Greater Risk than Older Adults?

scientific article published on 27 November 2017

Spiritual and mind-body beliefs as barriers and motivators to HIV-treatment decision-making and medication adherence? A qualitative study

scientific article

Spiritual coping predicts CD4-cell preservation and undetectable viral load over four years

scientific article published on 8 October 2014

Spiritual transformation, psychological well-being, health, and survival in people with HIV.

scientific article published in January 2009

Spirituality and Religiousness are Associated With Fewer Depressive Symptoms in Individuals With Medical Conditions

scientific article published on 24 March 2016

Spirituality, religion, and clinical outcomes in patients recovering from an acute myocardial infarction

scientific article

Stress and health: psychological, behavioral, and biological determinants

scientific article (publication date: 2005)

Stress as a predictor of symptomatic genital herpes virus recurrence in women with human immunodeficiency virus

scientific article

Stressful life events and adherence in HIV

scientific article published on May 2008

The Daily Lives of People With HIV Infection: A Qualitative Study of the Control Group in an Expressive Writing Intervention

scientific article published on 8 April 2016

The Ironson-woods Spirituality/Religiousness Index is associated with long survival, health behaviors, less distress, and low cortisol in people with HIV/AIDS.

scientific article

The Protective Role of the Family and Social Support Network in a Sample of HIV-Positive African American Women: Results of a Pilot Study

scientific article

The effect of a psychosocial intervention and quality of life after acute myocardial infarction: the Enhancing Recovery in Coronary Heart Disease (ENRICHD) clinical trial.

scientific article published in January 2006

To take or not to take: decision-making about antiretroviral treatment in people living with HIV/AIDS.

scientific article published on May 2006

View of God as benevolent and forgiving or punishing and judgmental predicts HIV disease progression

scientific article published on 22 February 2011

Volunteer Work, Religious Commitment, and Resting Pulse Rates

scientific article published on 27 December 2016

Written emotional disclosure and processing of trauma are associated with protected health status and immunity in people living with HIV/AIDS.

scientific article published on February 2008

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