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Skin Barrier Recovery is not Associated with Self‐Perceived Stress
Author(s) -
Benham Grant
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
stress and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1532-2998
pISSN - 1532-3005
DOI - 10.1002/smi.2640
Subject(s) - skin barrier , stress (linguistics) , psychology , stress measures , association (psychology) , clinical psychology , medicine , dermatology , psychotherapist , philosophy , linguistics
The primary aim of the current study was to examine the association between self‐perceived stress and skin‐barrier recovery. From an initial sample of 410 students, 19 high‐stress and 12 low‐stress Hispanic women completed a behavioural survey and were assessed for recovery of skin barrier following a tape‐stripping procedure. No association was found between self‐perceived stress and skin barrier recovery at either the 30‐min or 3.15‐h recovery period. Supplemental analysis showed a positive correlation between skin barrier recovery and self‐reported sleep quantity at both recovery periods. Barrier repair reflects a single, minimally invasive, measure of wound healing; thus, our findings do not necessarily contradict the notion that stress measures can be used to predict wound healing more broadly defined. Supplemental analysis demonstrated an intriguing relationship between barrier recovery and the number of hours slept, but these findings are considered tentative and will require replication with more rigorous measures of sleep quantity and quality. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.