Measuring Stress in Humans : a Practical Guide for the Field.
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Gillian H Ice; Gary D James
- ناشر : Leiden : Cambridge University Press
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2006
- شابک / ISBN : 9780511259968
Description
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; 1 Conducting a field study of stress: general principles; 2 Cultural dimensions of the stress process: measurement issues in fieldwork; 3 Measuring emotional and behavioral response; 4 Measuring hormonal variation in the sympathetic nervous system: catecholamines; 5 Measuring hormonal variation in the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis: cortisol; 6 Measuring physiological changes in the cardiovascular system: ambulatory blood pressure. 7 Measuring immune function: markers of cell-mediated immunity and inflammation in dried blood spots8 Measuring stress in special populations; 9 Study design and data analysis; 10 Protection of human subjects in stress research: an investigator's guide to the process; 11 Epilog: summary and future directions; Index.
This book provides in-depth guidelines for designing a field project on stress in humans. It provides pros and cons of various methods and guides the researcher through every aspect of study design from what containers to use to collect samples, to the most appropriate measures and statistical analysis.
