Self-care activities and glycated haemoglobin in Iranian patients with type 2 diabetes: can coping styles and social support have a buffering role?

abstract：:The increase in obesity and the many educational messages prompting us to eat a healthy diet have heightened people's concerns about the effects of food choice on health and weight. An unintended side effect may be that such awareness fuels feelings of guilt and worry about food. Although guilt has the potential to mo...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Kuijer RG,Boyce JA,Marshall EM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study explored how two measures of mother-adolescent dissimilarity in illness representations relate to negative emotional adjustment in mothers and adolescents. Eighty-four adolescents with type 1 diabetes (age 11.5-17.5) and their mothers completed the Revised Illness Perceptions Questionnaire and measures of ne...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Olsen B,Berg CA,Wiebe DJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Taking adjuvant hormonal therapy for 5-10 years is recommended to prevent breast cancer recurrence in those with oestrogen positive disease. Despite proven clinical efficacy many women do not take their hormonal therapy as prescribed. This study reports the development and initial validation of a questionnair...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Cahir C,Dombrowski SU,Kennedy MJ,Sharp L,Bennett K

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The primary aim of this research is to understand how mindsets about weight controllability in the United States relate to population health. We examined the distribution of people's implicit theories of weight, from an incremental (controllable) to an entity (not controllable) mindset, in a nationally repre...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Auster-Gussman LA,Rothman AJ

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study employed the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) and additional variables (descriptive norm, moral norm, self-identity) to investigate the factors underlying breastfeeding intention and subsequent breastfeeding at four time points (during hospital stay, at hospital discharge, 10 days postpartum and 6 weeks po...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： McMillan B,Conner M,Woolridge M,Dyson L,Green J,Renfrew M,Bharj K,Clarke G

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: This study examined the effects of consistency tendency on the predictive power of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) in relation to physical activity behavior.Methods: In this randomized controlled cross-over trial, we recruited 770 undergraduate students from Indonesia who were randomly assigned into tw...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Chan DKC,Stenling A,Yusainy C,Hikmiah Z,Ivarsson A,Hagger MS,Rhodes RE,Beauchamp MR

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Both the distressed (Type D) personality (i.e. the combination of negative affectivity and social inhibition traits) and dysfunctional parenting styles are associated with anxiety and depression. As parenting styles have been related to personality development, dysfunctional parenting styles may also be assoc...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Damen NL,Versteeg H,van Helmondt SJ,de Jaegere PP,van Geuns RJ,Meine MM,van Domburg RT,Pedersen SS

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important consideration that needs adding to discussions of patient choice and whether or not men are reluctant to use primary care services is that many frequent attenders are male. The aim of this article is to explore how male frequent attenders construct decisions to use or not use health-care services. This is...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Branney P,Witty K,Bagnall AM,South J,White A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: This study aims to predict exercise adherence by examining from the standpoints of the exercise intention, the self-determination theory and the sport commitment model. Design and Main Outcome Measures: Data were collected from 391 Korean sports centre members (teens: 5.4%, twenties: 15.1%, thirties: 25.1%,...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Kang S,Lee K,Kwon S

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benefit finding is a meaning making construct that has been shown to be related to adjustment in people with MS and their carers. This study investigated the dimensions, stability and potency of benefit finding in predicting adjustment over a 12 month interval using a newly developed Benefit Finding in Multiple Sclero...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Pakenham KI,Cox S

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the current study was to focus on the subjective experience of mothers of daughters with ongoing anorexia nervosa. Specifically, we explored the stressors faced by these mothers while coping with their daughters' illnesses; we also looked at how they experienced their maternal selves and roles, and thei...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Tuval-Mashiach R,Hasson-Ohayon I,Ilan A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite evidence-based recommendations, adherence with secondary prevention medications post-myocardial infarction (MI) remains low. Taking medication requires behaviour change, and using behavioural theories to identify what factors determine adherence could help to develop novel adherence interventions. O...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Presseau J,Schwalm JD,Grimshaw JM,Witteman HO,Natarajan MK,Linklater S,Sullivan K,Ivers NM

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to examine the effects of experiential avoidance (EA) on the indirect relationship of chronic pain patients' illness representations to pain interference, through pain catastrophising Design and main outcome measure: The sample consisted of 162 patients diagnosed with an arthritis-re...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Karademas EC,Karekla M,Flouri M,Vasiliou VS,Kasinopoulos O,Papacostas SS

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Matching between affect orientations and message frames have been shown to enhance the persuasiveness of health messages. Based on a two-dimensional regulatory model (direction: approach/avoidance, valence: appetitive/aversive), this study examined whether a precise matching between affect and message frame w...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Li KK,Lee CH

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the theoretical context of the Theory of Planned Behaviour, this study examined whether work has a disruptive influence on people's ability to carry out their daily intentions to exercise, and whether daily planning helps overcome this. A daily questionnaire was completed by 42 employees for 14 days. A brief dai...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Payne N,Jones F,Harris PR

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined associations between illness representation dimensions specified by the self-regulation model, coping and mood in recently diagnosed gynaecological cancer patients. Participants were 61 patients recruited from a specialist outpatient gynaecology clinic. Patients completed a survey measuring their c...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Gould RV,Brown SL,Bramwell R

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Action planning is assumed to mediate between intentions and health behaviours. Moreover, intentions are assumed to moderate the planning-behaviour relation, because people with high intentions are more likely to enact their plans. The present studies extend these suppositions by integrating both assumptions to a nove...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Wiedemann AU,Schüz B,Sniehotta F,Scholz U,Schwarzer R

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Among couples coping with cancer diagnosis, the effects of gender, role (patient vs. spouse) and patient relationship status (single vs. partnered) on quality of life (QoL) have been investigated with inconsistent results. The present study examined the impact of gender, role and relationship status ...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Kuenzler A,Hodgkinson K,Zindel A,Bargetzi M,Znoj HJ

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines the extent to which self-reported emotional eating is a predictor of unhealthy snack consumption or, alternatively, an expression of beliefs about the relation between emotions and eating derived from concerns about eating behaviour. Three studies were conducted. Study 1 (N = 151) and Study 2 (N ...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Adriaanse MA,de Ridder DT,Evers C

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:to access the cognitions of adults with type 2 diabetes whilst completing items on the Illness Perceptions Questionnaire-Revised (IPQ-R). To determine whether these cognitions are congruent with the meaning of items and subscales as interpreted by researchers and clinicians using the IPQ-R and to identify th...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： McCorry NK,Scullion L,McMurray CM,Houghton R,Dempster M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic pain condition that can negatively impact on all aspects of patients' lives. The purpose of this study was: first, to explore the biopsychosocial factors that may contribute to adjustment to FM symptoms; second, to investigate how referrals to counselling related to patients' ratings of ...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Egeli NA,MacMillan PD

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most research on illness representations explores how patients view single conditions, but many patients report more than one long-term condition (known as multimorbidity). It is not known how multimorbidity impacts on patient illness representations. This exploratory qualitative study examined patients' representatio...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Bower P,Harkness E,Macdonald W,Coventry P,Bundy C,Moss-Morris R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective There is extensive evidence for weight gain among people migrating from low/middle-income to high-income countries, which may be due, in part, to acculturation factors. This review aimed to identify associations between acculturation and body weight among immigrants to high-income countries and identify if s...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Alidu L,Grunfeld EA

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Our aim is to offer and illustrate a novel meta-methodology to enhance the rigour of method selection and understanding of results in pluralist qualitative research (PQR). METHOD:To do so, we make innovative use of articulation of four discrete dimensions characterising different forms of thematic analysis. We pro...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Madill A,Flowers P,Frost N,Locke A

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study is to improve our understanding of the ways in which a medical consultation style relates to satisfaction and adherence. DESIGN:Participants completed questionnaires about preferred and perceived consultation styles; psychological variables such as satisfaction, anxiety and depression;...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Wroe AL,Salkovskis PM,Rees M,Jack T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examined whether cancer patients reported increases in their goal adjustment capacities while receiving psychosocial care and whether these increases were related to changes in symptoms of depression, anxiety and fatigue. Goal adjustment was conceptualised as two independent capacities: goal diseng...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Zhu L,Ranchor AV,van der Lee M,Garssen B,Sanderman R,Schroevers MJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: There is a growing trend whereby office workers refrain from taking breaks at work. Previous research has not explored how employees understand the enablers and barriers to taking breaks. This study explored how office-based workers describe their behaviour in relation to, and perceive the notion of, taking...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Oliver M,Rodham K,Taylor J,McIver C

更新日期：2020-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to assess the reliability, dimensionality and validity of the self-report questionnaire Health-Risk Attitude Scale (HRAS-13) in a sample of the general population and a patient population. METHODS:Sample 1 (n = 930) was recruited from the general population aged 18-65 years in the ...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Huls SPI,van Osch SMC,Brouwer WBF,van Exel J,Stiggelbout AM

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: The incidence of skin cancer can be reduced by increasing sun protective behaviours. Based on the Common-Sense Model and the Intervention Mapping approach, a brief intervention targeting illness representations about skin cancer to increase the intention to conduct sun protective behaviours was developed an...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Vollmann M,Engelhardt G,Salewski C

更新日期：2020-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Very little is known about the reasoning underlying beliefs in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). This study examined whether CAM beliefs can be better explained with intuitive reasoning, paranormal beliefs and ontological confusions of physical, biological and mental phenomena than with 12 variables that h...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Lindeman M

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00