Question

What role does immunity play when caring for a patient that is experiencing a high amount of stress due to a loss?

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Answer 1

Immunity plays a very important role when caring for a patient that is experiencing a high amount of stress due to a loss as according to researches done by Psychologists in the field of "psychoneuroimmunology" the state of mind affects a person’s state of health. Studies by psychologist Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, and immunologist Ronald Glaser, of the Ohio State University College of Medicine, found by experimenting on animals that stress is linked to infection (Glaser, 2000).