Psychometric Evaluation of the Persian Version of the Chronic Illness Anticipated Stigma Scale (CIASS).

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:The perception of cardiovascular risk factors is believed to be associated with a person's willingness to carry out lifestyle changes as well as their willingness to adhere to prescribed preventive medications. Little is known about whether these perceptions differ between statin users and those not using st...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Lytsy P,Burell G,Westerling R

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study seeks to investigate and compare the efficacy of self-monitoring and implementation intentions-two post-intentional behaviour change techniques-for improving sleep hygiene behaviours and sleep outcomes in university students. METHOD:Seventy-two undergraduate students completed baseline measures of f...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Mairs L,Mullan B

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Psoriasis is an incurable and chronic disease that includes unpredictable periods of remission and relapse requiring long-term therapy. PURPOSE:This paper focuses on the relationship among family coping, psychological morbidity, body image, dyadic adjustment and quality of life in psoriatic patients and the...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Pereira MG,Brito L,Smith T

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：:Recently, several studies reported elevated cholesterol levels in panic disorder, agoraphobia, and general anxiety disorder, but the clinical relevance is still unsettled. All studies so far have disregarded the possible influence of dietary and physical exercise factors. In this study, 30 patients with different anxi...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Peter H,Goebel P,Müller S,Hand I

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although international guidelines on pulmonary rehabilitation acknowledge that psychological factors contribute to exercise intolerance in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the few empirical studies investigating this association have found inconsistent results. PURPOSE:The purpose...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Fischer MJ,Scharloo M,Abbink J,van 't Hul A,van Ranst D,Rudolphus A,Weinman J,Rabe KF,Kaptein AA

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous herpesvirus infections are associated with clinically relevant outcomes as well as an accelerated HIV replication rate and subsequent disease progression. Stress management interventions may improve markers of cellular immune control over latent herpesvirus infections and these changes appear to be mediated b...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Carrico AW,Antoni MH,Pereira DB,Fletcher MA,Klimas N,Lechner SC,Schneiderman N

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While adjuvant endocrine therapy (AET) for early-stage, hormone-sensitive breast cancer confers a 40-50% reduction in recurrence risk, adherence to AET is suboptimal, and no efficacious interventions exist to improve adherence. A qualitative study was conducted to understand patient experiences on AET, motiv...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Jacobs JM,Walsh EA,Park ER,Berger J,Peppercorn J,Partridge A,Horick N,Safren SA,Temel JS,Greer JA

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study investigated the role of anxiety sensitivity, resilience, pain catastrophizing, depression, pain fear-avoidance beliefs, and pain intensity in patients with acute back pain-related disability. METHOD:Two hundred and thirty-two patients with acute back pain completed questionnaires on anxiety sensiti...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Ramírez-Maestre C,Esteve R,Ruiz-Párraga G,Gómez-Pérez L,López-Martínez AE

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In China, men who have sex with men (MSM) shoulder a disproportionate HIV burden. Early initiation and adherence to HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART) will be critical to reversing the HIV epidemic in China, but ART usage remains suboptimal among MSM diagnosed with HIV. One understudied but potentially importa...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Pan SW,Smith MK,Carpiano RM,Fu H,Ong JJ,Huang W,Tang W,Tucker JD

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We welcome the commentaries by Hagger et al.and Stephens and consider their observations to be timely and constructive. Hagger et al. raise concerns regarding the sustainability of behaviour change once incentives have been removed and their influence on intrinsic motivation. We concur that questions regarding both of...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Lynagh MC,Sanson-Fisher RW,Bonevski B

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines the association between three dimensions of perceived parenting--warmth, strictness, and expectation--and adult cognitive and socioeconomic achievement outcomes. Structural equation models (N = 7,035) were used to examine simultaneously the influence of parenting on adult achievement while contro...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Singh-Manoux A,Fonagy P,Marmot M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health Locus of Control (HLOC) has been related to a number of psychosocial and medical variables in previous research in HIV. However, there is little information about its relationship to disease status, or about the Doctors subscale (DHLOC), in this population. PURPOSE:The main purpose of the present stu...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Ruffin R,Ironson G,Fletcher MA,Balbin E,Schneiderman N

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protecting the health of the work force has become an important issue in public health research. PURPOSE:This study aims to explore potential associations between supportive leadership style (SLS), an aspect of leadership behavior, and self-rated health (SRH) among employees. METHOD:We drew on cross-sectio...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Schmidt B,Loerbroks A,Herr RM,Wilson MG,Jarczok MN,Litaker D,Mauss D,Bosch JA,Fischer JE

更新日期：2014-01-01 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: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：PURPOSE:Medically unexplained symptoms are abundantly present in the general population. Stress may lead to increased symptom reporting because of widespread beliefs that it is dangerous for one's health. This study aimed at clarifying the role of stress beliefs in somatic symptom reporting using a quasi-experimental s...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Fischer S,Nater UM,Laferton JA

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Syndemic approaches explore the synergistic relationships between social and health inequities. Such approaches are particularly salient for the Northwest Territories, Canada, that experiences national social (food insecurity, intimate partner violence [IPV]) and health (sexually transmitted infections [STI]...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Logie CH,Lys CL,Mackay K,MacNeill N,Pauchulo A,Yasseen AS 3rd

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There have been few empirical studies to explain the individual differences in and the underlying mechanism behind the Job Demand-Control (DC) Model. PURPOSE:This study examined the lagged effects of active coping on stress responses (i.e., psychological distress and physical complaints) in the context of t...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Shimazu A,de Jonge J,Irimajiri H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Population screening reduces mortality from colorectal cancer, yet factors associated with uptake of screening are incompletely understood. PURPOSE:The purpose of the study was to determine demographic and psychosocial factors associated with participation in faecal occult blood test (FOBT)-based colorectal...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Cole SR,Zajac I,Gregory T,Mehaffey S,Roosa N,Turnbull D,Esterman A,Young GP

更新日期：2011-12-01 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:The Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (TSK) and the Fear-Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire (FABQ) are frequently used questionnaires for pain-related fear, and the visual analogue scale (VAS) is for pain. PURPOSE:This study aims to determine the smallest detectable change (SDC) of these questionnaires in patients...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Ostelo RW,Swinkels-Meewisse IJ,Knol DL,Vlaeyen JW,de Vet HC

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the role of the type of support provided, gender of support provider, and relationship quality in predicting how social support might influence cardiovascular reactivity during acute stress in women. A group of 88 women received either emotional, instrumental, or no support from a close female or male frie...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Uno D,Uchino BN,Smith TW

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Advancing understanding of the developmental origins of neuroendocrine-immune (NEI) functioning is key to elucidating the biological mechanisms involved in health and disease risk across the lifespan. This study examined whether prenatal maternal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) activity moderates child ...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Riis JL,Granger DA,Woo H,Voegtline K,DiPietro JA,Johnson SB

更新日期：2020-06-01 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:It is important to monitor whether anti-smoking messages (if any) are noticed by the public in China and whether they have any impact on smokers’ quitting behaviours over time. PURPOSE:This study aimed to examine Chinese smokers' exposure to anti-smoking messages in a range of channels and to determine if e...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Li L,Borland R,Yong HH,Fong GT,Jiang Y,Li Q,Hammond D,Quah AC

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common genetic disorder of the blood. The disease produces significantly abnormal hemoglobin (Hgb) molecules in red blood cells (RBCs). The sickling of RBCs occurs when partially or totally deoxygenated Hgb molecules distort their normal disk shape, producing stiff, sticky, sickle...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Edwards CL,Scales MT,Loughlin C,Bennett GG,Harris-Peterson S,De Castro LM,Whitworth E,Abrams M,Feliu M,Johnson S,Wood M,Harrison O,Killough A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic abdominal pain (CAP) in childhood is widely prevalent and has adverse effects on mental health and quality of life. Earlier research emphasized the positive effects of psychological intervention on pain symptoms. This study describes the results of a cognitive-behavioral pain management program for c...

journal_title：International journal of behavioral medicine

authors： Groß M,Warschburger P

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00