Narrative health psychology: once more unto the breach. Introduction.

abstract：:Bariatric surgery is currently the most viable and cost-effective treatment for obesity. This study aimed to understand, from a female patient's perspective, what contributed to not achieving or maintaining excess weight loss from a primary laparoscopic adjustable gastric band surgery, leading to subsequent multiple r...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Janse Van Vuuren M,Strodl E,White KM,Lockie PD

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

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：:Concepts of health and illness have been a major topic for social representations research. Whereas studies on cognitive representations of health and illness develop a general, decontextualized schema of illness, social representations research focuses on the diversity of lay concepts of health and illness and how he...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Flick U

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of web-based intervention on social acknowledgement and disclosure of trauma and to examine the mediating effect of the improvement in social acknowledgement and disclosure of trauma on the reduction of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms. A randomized controlled tri...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Xu W,Wang J,Wang Z,Li Y,Yu W,Xie Q,He L,Maercker A

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to examine the relation between the public perceptions and reactions to the pandemic influenza A(H1N1) in Crete, Greece. It was conducted in two phases: at the early phase of the outbreak and during the peak. The Common Sense Model was used as an appropriate theoretical framework. Participant...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Karademas EC,Bati A,Karkania V,Georgiou V,Sofokleous S

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：: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：: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：:This study tested if habit strength for taking oral hypoglycemic medication moderated the association between poor mental health symptoms (i.e. depressive symptoms, diabetes distress) and unintentional non-adherence in 790 adults with type 2 diabetes. Data were cross-sectional. A habit strength × depressive symptom in...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Burns RJ,Deschênes SS,Knäuper B,Schmitz N

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Men have higher rates of premature death than women, and may arguably have higher rates of serious illness. One explanation often suggested to account for this is that men are considered to be stoical about illness and reluctant to seek help for it. This article explores the role of media representations in the constr...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Hodgetts D,Chamberlain K

更新日期：2002-05-01 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

abstract：:This study examined the direct and stress-buffering effects of global hope and its components (agency and pathways) on changes in adjustment to multiple sclerosis caregiving over 12 months. A total of 140 carers and their care-recipients completed questionnaires at Time 1 and 12 months later, Time 2. Focal predictors ...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Madan S,Pakenham KI

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Facial disfigurement affects approximately one in 500 children and young people in the UK. Four mothers and their four children aged 11-13 years who have a facial disfigurement were recruited through the charity Changing Faces, in order to examine the perspectives and concerns of adolescents and their mothers, and how...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Prior J,O'Dell L

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrated treatments for hazardous drinking and anxiety/depression are virtually nonexistent. Anxiety sensitivity is a common mechanism for both anxiety/depression and hazardous drinking. This article presents a study protocol for the development and testing of an integrated remotely delivered anxiety sensitivity/haz...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Paulus DJ,Gallagher MW,Neighbors C,Zvolensky MJ

更新日期：2020-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have revealed a negative relationship between anxiety and health-promoting behavior. This study identified three cognitive pathways through which anxiety operates on preparedness behaviors for terrorist attacks. Preparedness was regressed on trait anxiety, perceived threat, and self-efficacy based on ...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Wirtz PW,Rohrbeck CA,Burns KM

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strong social support is associated with lower mortality and morbidity and better self-rated health in later life. The aim of this study was to compare social network size and satisfaction in men (N = 2589) and women (n = 3152), aged 72-78 years. Women reported significantly larger networks (Difference 1.36, 95% CI 0....

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： McLaughlin D,Vagenas D,Pachana NA,Begum N,Dobson A

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The questionnaire study aimed to evaluate the relative contribution of body awareness, subjective symptoms, and anxiety to the construct of somatosensory amplification in both healthy controls (n = 475) and patients visiting their general practitioner (n = 236). Regression analysis explained 52.0 percent of total vari...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Köteles F,Doering BK

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This randomized controlled trial investigated the effect of live music on quality of life and depression in 47 older people with dementia using the Dementia Quality of Life and Geriatric Depression Scale. The control/reading group reported higher mid-point feelings of belonging than the music group (F(1, 45) = 6.672, ...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Cooke M,Moyle W,Shum D,Harrison S,Murfield J

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the relationship between anxiety and feelings of being connected to nature. Two standardised self-report scales, the Nature Relatedness Scale and the State Trait Inventory for Cognitive and Somatic Anxiety, were used in tandem with a qualitative question. Quantitative results indicated that con...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Martyn P,Brymer E

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common features of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), including hyperandrogenism, ovarian dysfunction and obesity, can be highly distressing. We compared 40 women with PCOS to women with infertility but not PCOS, and to women with neither PCOS nor infertility, on measures of depression and body image. Women with PCOS r...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Himelein MJ,Thatcher SS

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research aimed to identify modifiable risk factors for poor psychological functioning six months post-operatively, using a chronic illness model to explain the relationships between risk factors. Consecutive elective CABG patients (N = 119) completed self-report measures including optimism, illness representation...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Oxlad M,Wade TD

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This project examined whether interpersonal pressure to be muscular predicted late adolescents' pursuit of muscularity. Participants were 199 adolescents (16-19 years), mothers (n = 175), and friends (n = 159), assessed at two annual times. Pressure to be muscular was assessed with adolescents', mothers', and friends'...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Shomaker LB,Furman W

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:College students' academic performance, residential status, class rank, and gender were assessed as predictors of risky sexual behavior. All predictors were examined under two different substance use contexts, that of being 'drunk or high' and 'not drunk or high'. Results indicated that gender moderated the associatio...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Hittner JB,Kryzanowski JJ

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:A qualitative study among women living with HIV assessed the aspects of an evidence-based intervention targeting HIV transmission risk reduction (Women Involved in Life Learning from Other Women [WiLLOW]) that women valued and how their lives were impacted. Thirty-one women (80.6% African American) completed interview...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Dale SK,Grimes T,Miller L,Ursillo A,Drainoni ML

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explored the processes of significance about the risk communication in prenatal/preconception setting within 1 month to the end of genetic counselling intervention. Participants were all attending a programme of Cardiomyology and Medical Genetics in Naples, Italy, for the first time. Transcripts of 18 semi-...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Zaccaro A,Freda MF

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a cross-sectional telephone survey to explore the relationship of birth control conspiracy beliefs and perceived discrimination to contraceptive attitudes and behavior among a sample of African Americans (aged 18-45) in the USA (N = 71). Results indicated that a large percentage of respondents perceived d...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Thorburn Bird S,Bogart LM

更新日期：2003-03-01 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：:American Indians are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease in adulthood, and levels of physical activity and body mass index associate with cardiovascular disease risk. Recent research indicates that one's mindset may play a role in determining health behaviors and outcomes. In a sample of 105 American Indian c...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： John-Henderson NA,Tintzman CS,Counts CJ,Mueller CM

更新日期：2020-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress-reduction interventions have been linked with enhanced well-being and health. This study examined affect and cortisol in 111 individuals randomly assigned to a single 35-minute guided relaxation or a stress management lecture control group. Positive affect increased more in the relaxation compared to the contro...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Unger CA,Busse D,Yim IS

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00