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Depressive Symptoms Predict Mucosal Wound Healing

From the College of Dentistry (J.A.B., C.G.E., P.T.M.), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; School of Sport and Exercise Sciences (J.A.B.), University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK; Department of Psychology (J.T.C.), University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; and Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research (J.A.B., C.G.E., P.T.M.), Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

View larger version (10K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. Proportion of healed participants (left panel) and mean wound sizes (right panel) for each day post wounding. A smaller proportion of high dysphoric individuals (BDI-sf 8) were healed on each study day and this group also had larger average wound sizes. Results of 2 tests and analysis of variance, respectively: *p .05; **p .01; ***p .001.