Mild acute inflammatory stimulation induces transient negative mood.
OBJECTIVE
This study aims to assess the mood changes induced by mild acute inflammatory stimulation (typhoid vaccination).


METHODS
Using a double blind study design, 26 healthy volunteers underwent baseline assessments of mood, financial strain and work stress and were randomised to injection of Salmonella typhi vaccine or placebo injection. Mood, symptoms and body temperature was assessed by a modified version of the Profile of Mood States at 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8 h post injection.


RESULTS
Typhoid vaccination induces no increases in physical symptoms or temperature. Mood improved over the day in the placebo but not in the vaccine condition. Negative changes in mood following injection were correlated with chronic stress (financial strain) in the vaccination condition (r=-.65, P<.025).


CONCLUSIONS
A mild acute inflammatory stimulus induces transient negative mood, and responses were modulated by chronic stress. Implications for depressed mood in physical illness are discussed.
Strike
Philip C
PC
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK. philip@public-health.ucl.ac.uk
Wardle
Jane
J
Steptoe
Andrew
A
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology; D004311:Double-Blind Method; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007267:Injections; D008297:Male; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D012485:Salmonella typhi / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D014435:Typhoid Fever / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D014436:Typhoid-Paratyphoid Vaccines / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000009:adverse effects*
D014436:Typhoid-Paratyphoid Vaccines