Psychometric Properties and Normative Data for a Swedish Version of the Modern Health Worries Scale.

abstract：:This study analyzed the relationship between psychosocial factors and progression in intima media thickness (IMT). In 1998 and 2002, 95 healthy participants underwent a clinical examination, including ultrasound of the arteria carotis communis (ACC). IMT progression in women was 0.033 mm/year (SD=0.033) and in men 0.0...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Eller NH,Netterstrøm B

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Planning and executive functions (EFs; inhibition, updating, shifting) are self-regulatory variables that help people to become and stay physically active. The aim of this study was to examine how and for whom a planning intervention affects physical activity (PA) behavior in the short term. Therefore, the m...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Pfeffer I,Strobach T

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies have shown that minorities and immigrants have low levels of trust in healthcare systems (HCSys), which might present a barrier in access to and utilization of healthcare services. We compared the levels of trust in Israel's HCSys among the Arab minority, immigrant Jews, and non-immigrant Je...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Pinchas-Mizrachi R,Zalcman BG,Daoud N

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whether handicap due to tinnitus-sound(s) in the ears and/or in the head in the absence of an external auditory source-is best conceived as dimensional or categorical remains an unanswered empirical question. PURPOSE:The objective was to investigate whether tinnitus severity was best conceptualized as quali...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Hesser H,Andersson G

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined labor force participation as a risk factor for coronary heart disease. The participants were 224 women aged 45 to 64, residing in a rural district in Japan. The working women spent a significantly greater number of working hours (paid and unpaid) and had a more "Westernized" food preference than ho...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Tsutsumi K,Tsutsumi A,Orth-Gomér K

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies proposed that the physical activity and quality of life (QoL) relationship may not be entirely direct but mediated through other variables; however, few studies have examined these relationships in diverse population's older adults. PURPOSE:This study aims to examine the roles of self-efficacy and m...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Paxton RJ,Motl RW,Aylward A,Nigg CR

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Academic work as well as compensated employment has been found adversely associated with frequent headache; headache remains a costly disorder to the person and to society. However, little is known of factors--other than prior headache complaints--that may predict headache frequency over extended periods of ...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Hovanitz CA,Thatcher DL

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A large number of studies have provided clear evidence for a link between the risk of coronary heart disease and psychological risk factors. Much less attention has been given to the potential protective effect of psychological resources. PURPOSE:The major aim of this study was to investigate the independen...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Lundgren O,Garvin P,Jonasson L,Andersson G,Kristenson M

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Weight control has been major health issue in the prevention of lifestyle-related diseases especially among middle-aged working males in Japan. The computerized behavioral program is expected as an effective and feasible intervention tool. PURPOSE:The purpose of this study is to examine two hypotheses. The ...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Tanaka M,Adachi Y,Adachi K,Sato C

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Type D (distressed) personality refers to a general propensity to psychological distress defined by the combination of negative affectivity and social inhibition. Type D personality predicts poor mental and physical health in cardiac patients, but it has been argued that its assessment is affected by the...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Mommersteeg PM,Denollet J,Kavelaars A,Geuze E,Vermetten E,Heijnen CJ

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Self-management has become the dominant care model for chronic disease management. This study aimed to investigate the effect of changes in self-management strategies on the clinical outcomes of chronic diseases. METHODS:Two hundred ninety-seven patients with one or more chronic disease (diabetes, dyslipide...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Kang E,Kim KH,Cho YM,Park SM,Kim YJ,Lee HY,Rhee YE,Kim S,Yun YH

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long-term outcome in back pain is related mainly to cognitive factors such as pain-related beliefs and expectations. Most research has been performed on patient samples. PURPOSE:This study aimed at investigating changes over time in reported back pain, pain intensity, disability, health care consumption, an...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Demmelmaier I,Asenlöf P,Lindberg P,Denison E

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased activity in the sympathetic nervous system is part of the physiological stress response and is expressed in the heart rate variability (HRV). The objective of this study was to examine associations of HRV and intima media thickness (IMT). In 2002, satisfactory measurements of HRV of 78 voluntary participants...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Eller NH,Malmberg B,Bruhn P

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous research has examined patients' beliefs in diabetes and how these beliefs may affect patient outcomes. However, changes in symptoms and complications are a common feature of diabetes, and these can significantly alter the patient's "disease experience." However, no consideration has been given to ho...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Searle A,Wetherell MA,Campbell R,Dayan C,Weinman J,Vedhara K

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite antiretroviral treatment (ART) being an efficacious treatment for HIV, essentially making it a chronic non-terminal illness, two related and frequent concerns for many people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) continue to be HIV-related stigma and life stress. These two variables are frequently associated ...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Glynn TR,Llabre MM,Lee JS,Bedoya CA,Pinkston MM,O'Cleirigh C,Safren SA

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vascular risk factors such as hypertension and obesity have been associated with physical limitations among older adults. PURPOSE:The purpose of this study is to examine whether individual and aggregated vascular risk factors (VRFs) are associated with functional dependence and to what extent carotid athero...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Welmer AK,Liang Y,Angleman S,Santoni G,Yan Z,Cai C,Qiu C

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 38 men and 36 women to learn whether a brief speech stressor reduced normotensive humans' thermal pain sensitivity, whether baseline and poststress pain threshold and tolerance varied with blood pressure (BP) and hemodynamic measures, and whether these relations differed by gender and parental hypertension ...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Bragdon EE,Light KC,Girdler SS,Maixner W

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Type D personality is associated with recurrent coronary heart disease (CHD) risk but there is limited and inconsistent evidence regarding incident risk among persons free of clinical CHD. PURPOSE:We examined the association between Type D personality and coronary heart disease (CHD) risk in apparently heal...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Larson NC,Barger SD,Sydeman SJ

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:At the beginning of the 1990s, the World Health Organization (WHO) developed a project in order to create a cross-cultural instrument of quality of life assessment: the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL). PURPOSE:This paper describes the development of the European Portuguese version of the ...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Canavarro MC,Serra AV,Simões MR,Rijo D,Pereira M,Gameiro S,Quartilho MJ,Quintais L,Carona C,Paredes T

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The present study aimed to evaluate the cross-cultural validation and psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Chronic Illness Anticipated Stigma Scale (CIASS) among the patients with chronic illness in Iran. METHOD:Following standard procedures, the questionnaire was administered to a total sampl...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Nejatisafa AA,Mozafari S,Noorbala AA,Asgarian FS,Earnshaw VA,Sahraian MA,Etesam F

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main goals of this cross-sectional survey were (a) to describe the associations between sex, age, and physical activity behavior and (b) to describe the age and sex-related associations with the choice of structured (formal) and unstructured (nonformal) physical activity programs. At baseline, data were selected r...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Mota J,Esculcas C

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The definition of psychosomatic medicine is not consistent across countries. PURPOSE:The study purpose was to clarify the applicability of the definition of psychosomatic illness issued by the Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine to different types of referral in a university hospital. METHODS:The sa...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Nakao M,Takeuchi T

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medication adherence is important for secondary stroke prevention. However, suboptimal adherence to medication among patients after stroke or transient ischemic attack is reportedly 30.9%. We assessed medication adherence of Korean stroke survivors within 1 year of acute ischemic stroke and identified factor...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Kim GG,Chae DH,Park MS,Yoo SH

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Behavioral medicine in China has developed quickly in the last three decades. PURPOSE:We briefly summarized the history, the main scope and achievements, and the future development of behavioral medicine in China. METHOD:We did a literature search and discussed with senior scholars in behavioral medicine i...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Bai B,Ji F

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Poor adherence to medications is a significant problem that leads to increased morbidity, mortality, and health care costs. Recommended approaches to address medication adherence vary, and existing practice guidelines are unclear. PURPOSE:This review evaluated clinical practice guidelines designed to help h...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Ruppar TM,Dobbels F,Lewek P,Matyjaszczyk M,Siebens K,De Geest SM

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Spanish version of the Pain Vigilance and Awareness Questionnaire has not been validated. PURPOSE:The aims of this study were to examine the factor structure of the Spanish version of the Pain Vigilance and Awareness Questionnaire and present empirical evidence regarding its validity. METHOD:A sample o...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Esteve R,Ramírez-Maestre C,López-Martínez AE

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We hypothesized that increasing anger verbal behavior in an assertive, constructively motivated style should decrease resting blood pressure (BP) and that this behavior may be one mechanism through which hostility relates to BP. We tested this hypothesis by conducting secondary analyses on a single-blind, matched, ran...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Davidson K,Macgregor MW,Stuhr J,Gidron Y

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study aimed to assess the adoption of sun protection and sun exposure behaviors, the extent to which these behaviors group together, and the relationship between skin tone dissatisfaction and sun-related behaviors in South Australian adolescents (aged 12-17). METHODS:A total of 2,875 secondary school stud...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Hutchinson AD,Prichard I,Ettridge K,Wilson C

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is a leading cause of disability worldwide and can worsen the course of a variety of medical illnesses. There is a clear need to develop more potent treatments for this debilitating disorder and prevent its return. We are developing a promising psychotherapy that integrates components of current, empiricall...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Hayes AM,Beevers CG,Feldman GC,Laurenceau JP,Perlman C

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is a preliminary investigation of the effects on breast-feeding and cessation of breast-feeding on maternal health. A self-report questionnaire assessed overall health, mood, stress, and psychological and upper respiratory infection symptoms in 14 current, 36 never, and 49 past breast-feeders. Results indic...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Mezzacappa ES

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00