Does the 'Teddy Bear Hospital' enhance preschool children's knowledge? A pilot study with a pre/post-case control design in Germany.

abstract：:We explored the significance of religious faith/coping and spirituality and existential considerations reported during hospitalisation on depressive symptoms at 6-month follow-up and addressed patients' perceived influence of their faith among 97 consecutive acute coronary syndrome patients (72.2% male patients; mean ...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Bekke-Hansen S,Pedersen CG,Thygesen K,Christensen S,Waelde LC,Zachariae R

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on the effects of guided imagery in patients with fibromyalgia show varying results. This randomized controlled trial (n = 65) aims to give more insight into the effects on pain, functional status, and self-efficacy. Daily pain was assessed with a pain diary using a Visual Analogue Scale. Functional status and...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Verkaik R,Busch M,Koeneman T,van den Berg R,Spreeuwenberg P,Francke AL

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determinants of safer sexual behaviors among HIV-infected adult men with hemophilia were examined. A model was proposed that personal adjustment, communication skills, self-efficacy, and perceived advantages of condom use would influence safer sex practices. The model was tested with 181 men with hemophilia and HIV in...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Huszti HC,Parsons JT,Cotton D,Mendoza J,Harlow L,Rich L,Parish KL,Nuss R,Riske B

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fear of crime is thought to limit social activity in older people. Sixty older people, recruited via day centres, were given questionnaire-based interviews. A series of questions produced two scales of crime awareness and a scale of perceived crime prevalence. Fear of crime was operationalized through a catastrophizin...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： McKee KJ,Milner C

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An implicit association test (IAT) was used to investigate how habit strength, implicit attitudes and fruit consumption interrelate. Fifty-two participants completed a computerized IAT and provided measures of fruit consumption and related habit strength. Implicit attitudes moderated the habit strength-fruit consumpti...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： de Bruijn GJ,Keer M,Conner M,Rhodes RE

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the ways in which the meaning of 'sexual problems' is constructed and defined in undergraduate human sexuality textbooks. Drawing on feminist and critical discourse frameworks, the dominant as well as the absent/marginalized discourses were identified using critical discourse analysis. Sexual diffi...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Stelzl M,Stairs B,Anstey H

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The total and indirect effect of hostility on systolic and diastolic blood pressure was compared as a function of religious and spirituality identity in a nationally representative sample of 2971 adults aged 46.44 years. Structural equation modeling uncovered an indirect path from hostility to diastolic blood pressure...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： McIntosh RC,Ironson G,Krause N

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated whether positive and negative romantic partner social control attempts (persuasion and pressure, respectively) were related to approach-avoidance motives and exercise among young adults (N = 98), using daily reports. Daily persuasion was linked to higher daily approach motives. At the person le...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Berzins TL,Gere J,Kelly SM,Updegraff JA

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moral distress occurs when professionals cannot carry out what they believe to be ethically appropriate actions. This review describes the publication trend on moral distress and explores its relationships with other constructs. A bibliometric analysis revealed that since 1984, 239 articles were published, with an inc...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Lamiani G,Borghi L,Argentero P

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the article by Scott rightly questions the dynamics of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies system and re-examines the recovery rates, finding quite shocking results, his recommendations are ultimately flawed. There is a strong critique of the diagnostic procedures in Improving Access to Psychologi...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Binnie J

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that people who have suffered a heart attack can hold misconceived or maladaptive beliefs and that these can have a deleterious effect on quality of life and functioning. It has also been noted that clinicians do not routinely elicit these maladaptive beliefs. It is probable that angina sufferers also hold...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Furze G,Bull P,Lewin RJ,Thompson DR

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mixed method was employed to determine how caregivers view preschool children's body size and associated health risks. A survey of 505 caregivers was nested in 10 in-depth case studies of mothers. Based on the International Obesity Task Force calculation of children's weight status, the caregivers who had underweigh...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Chan CM,Wang WC

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Undergraduate women (N = 143) completed self-reports on exercise behavior, body orientation, body appreciation, and body-related talk. Results showed that conversations about weight loss/dieting and conversations about exercise differentially predicted body appreciation. Importantly, multiple regression analyses showe...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Wasylkiw L,Butler NA

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to Bandura's social-cognitive theory, perceptions of somatic and affective barriers are sources of self-efficacy. This longitudinal study compares general indicators of health barriers with measures of perceived somatic and affective barriers to predict self-efficacy and accelerometer-assessed physical activ...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Warner LM,Wolff JK,Spuling SM,Wurm S

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We interviewed 15 South Africans seeking HIV testing to understand the factors that influenced their seeking an HIV test. Reasons in favour of testing included having had unprotected sex, availability of social support if testing HIV positive and modelling test-seeking behaviour to others. Reasons against seeking test...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： De Wet H,Kagee A

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the potential of patients using computer programs in health care settings, we studied the effect of a fingerprint reader on responses to a computerized health screener. We randomized 76 primary care patients into two conditions: (1) fingerprint reader prior to screener; and (2) control condition. Overall, the re...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Sciamanna CN,Clark MA

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research suggests that patient uncertainty related to experiencing symptoms may drive decisions to seek care. The only validated measure of patient uncertainty assesses uncertainty related to defined illness. In prior work, we engaged patients to describe uncertainty related to symptoms and used findings to develop th...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： LaNoue MD,Gerolamo AM,Powell R,Nord G,Doty AM,Rising KL

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is no question that health psychology needs to be more involved with matters concerning health inequalities and the social injustices associated with media racism, and racism in general. It is recognized that our discipline has the potential to develop and carry out research that can make valuable contributions ...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Estacio EV

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adults with chronic bleeding disorders report high distress, but it is unclear how distress varies over time. Patients rated their distress on a 10-point scale at two clinic visits. Of 83 patients, roughly one-quarter reported consistent no/low distress (29%), one-quarter reported consistent distress (22%), and half (...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Barry V,Lynch ME,Tran DQ,Antun A,DeBalsi A,Hicks D,Lasseter F,Mattis S,Ribeiro MJ,Stein SF,Kempton CL

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined the cognitive processes by which perceived locus of causality influences participation in leisure time physical activity. Based on the theoretical tenets of self-determination theory, it was hypothesized that deliberative modes of information processing and past behaviour will account for th...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Chatzisarantis NL,Hagger MS,Biddle SJ,Karageorghis C

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:If health psychology is to maximize impacts on health, there will need to be a shift from relying primarily on efficacy trials to increasing reliance on effectiveness trials. Efficacy trials use homogeneous, highly motivated samples with minimal complications from a single setting receiving intensive treatments delive...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Prochaska JO,Evers KE,Prochaska JM,Van Marter D,Johnson JL

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertensive individuals represent a "vulnerable" population regarding psychological health. While African Americans are disproportionally burdened with hypertension, pathways predicting their psychological health remain understudied. We examine if discrimination is associated with psychological health, through an ind...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Vargas EA,Chirinos DA,Mahalingam R,Marshall RA,Wong M,Kershaw KN

更新日期：2020-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Health outcomes of adults with type 1 diabetes may be affected by relationship status and quality. Our objective was to examine associations between relationship status, relationship factors, and outcomes in adults with type 1 diabetes. N = 1660 participants completed surveys measuring relationship satisfaction and pe...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Trief PM,Jiang Y,Beck R,Huckfeldt PJ,Knight T,Miller KM,Weinstock RS

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Religions instruct individuals to engage in prosocial behaviors. Previous studies are lacking on a positive relation between religiousness and blood donation. We tested this hypothesis using a national survey of 7611 women and 4282 men aged 18-44 years. In women, positive associations of childhood religious affiliatio...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Gillum RF,Masters KS

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explored the association between parental fear of hypoglycemia, anxiety, and subjective well-being in parents of children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes. A total of 120 mothers and 79 fathers participated. Mothers' and fathers' fear of hypoglycemia was significantly associated with anxiety and negativ...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Pate T,Klemenčič S,Battelino T,Bratina N

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic refractory cough patients have persistent, unexplained, treatment-resistant symptoms. Very little is known about non-physiological processes underlying chronic refractory cough or patients' experience of the condition. In all, 14 patients participated in semi-structured interviews. Interviews were based on the...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Hulme K,Dogan S,Parker SM,Deary V

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the United States, Black women living with HIV face various individual (e.g. trauma) and structural (e.g. racism) adversities. However, resilience is understudied among Black women living with HIV. A total of 100 Black women living with HIV in the United States completed measures of resilience, general self-efficac...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Dale SK,Reid R,Safren SA

更新日期：2019-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim was to see whether qualitative analysis improved quantitative measurement of illness perception after heart transplant. Two methods of evaluating illness representations were compared: one quantitative (administration of the Illness Perception Questionnaire-Revised) and one qualitative (phenomenological reduct...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Janelle C,O'Connor K,Dupuis G

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low socioeconomic status, racial discrimination, and low acculturation are the major sociocultural correlates of smoking among African-American adults. This study is the first to examine all three variables simultaneously and to analyze gender differences in their association with smoking. Results for the sample revea...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Landrine H,Corral I

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined how coping styles are related to functional status in patients with medically unexplained physical symptoms and to what extent depression and anxiety account for this relationship. In 90 Dutch adult patients presenting medically unexplained physical symptoms, coping styles, health-related functiona...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Sempértegui GA,Karreman A,van Hout GC,Bekker MH

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00