Continuous traumatic stress as a mental and physical health challenge: Case studies from South Africa.

abstract：:This study examines the effect of condom negotiation strategies on condom use and partner type and substance use before sex as moderators of strategy effectiveness. Women reported their daily sexual behavior during the last month. Withholding sex was more strongly associated with condom use when utilized with a non-ca...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Peasant C,Montanaro EA,Kershaw TS,Parra GR,Weiss NH,Meyer JP,Murphy JG,Ritchwood TD,Sullivan TP

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Researchers have seldom compared how various psychological factors relate to men's sexual health. We sought to identify whether and how psychological risk factors (i.e. anxiety sensitivity, emotion regulation, psychological distress) predict men's sexual health (i.e. functioning, sexual quality of life, frequency of s...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Tutino JS,Shaughnessy K,Ouimet AJ

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined age differences in support, BMI, and HbA1c among African American patients with type 2 diabetes. Participants were 158 African American adults with type 2 diabetes. Average HbA1c was 1% higher among patients aged 20-49 than patients 60-77, and double the number of younger patients had a BMI ≥35 tha...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Hessler DM,Fisher L,Naranjo D,Masharani U

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：:Suicide ideation is a sensitive indicator of personal well-being. While ideation occurs in roughly 3 percent of the US population annually, in this study rates are 10 times higher. This article explores the role of social capital in mediating negative life circumstances on ideation for a sample of 161 homeless adults ...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Fitzpatrick KM,Irwin J,Lagory M,Ritchey F

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outcome measurement in clinical genetics is problematic because the patient benefits are difficult to measure. The aim in this qualitative grounded theory study was to develop a theoretical framework describing the patient benefits from using clinical genetics services. Seven focus groups and 19 interviews were conduc...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： McAllister M,Payne K,Macleod R,Nicholls S,Dian Donnai,Davies L

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assesses resilience and general self-efficacy among Kenyan orphans and vulnerable children (n = 1060) active in a community-based program combining economic household strengthening with psychosocial support. Quantile regression analyses modeled associations between the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of re...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Goodman ML,Lloyd LE,Selwyn BJ,Morgan RO,Mwongera M,Gitari S,Keiser PH

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine if messages tailored to an individual's regulatory focus (i.e. their tendency to focus on prevention or promotion) increased exercise intentions and behavior in a medically underserved sample. Adult English as a Second Language students (N = 58) were presented with tailored exe...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Martinez JL,Duncan LR,Rivers SE,Latimer AE,Salovey P

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experiential accounts of HIV-positive gay men. Participants took part in open-ended interviews. Three key-related recurrent themes are presented: 'Disclosure, deliberation and the abject other'; 'Disclosure, care and the valued other' and 'Disclosu...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Flowers P,Davis MD

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poor outcomes for breast cancer in Ghana have been attributed to late presentation of symptoms at biomedical facilities. This study explored factors accounting for delays in initiation of breast cancer treatment at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra. Focus group discussions were conducted with 20 women with breas...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Sanuade OA,Ayettey H,Hewlett S,Dedey F,Wu L,Akingbola T,Ogedegbe G,de-Graft Aikins A

更新日期：2018-11-30 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：: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：:We examined the relationships among age, health, beliefs, and possible-selves. Using a new approach based on health-related possible-selves, young-old and older individuals were separated into specific health types: (1) improvement or maintenance health hopes and (2) preventable or unpreventable health fears. The youn...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： McGinty HL,Dark-Freudeman A,West RL

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This Final Report of the European Federation of Professional Psychologists' Associations (EFPPA) Task Force on Health Psychology defines the nature and scope of health psychology and its possible future development to the year 2000 and beyond. Training needs and objectives are specified for professional health psychol...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Marks DF,Brücher-Albers C,Donker FJ,Jepsen Z,Rodriguez-Marin J,Sidot S,Backman BW

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Venous thromboembolic disease (VTE) is a serious, life-threatening condition and a major cause of mortality and morbidity. Heritable thrombophilia increases risk of recurrent VTE. The present study employed Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to explore adaptation to recurrent VTE and heritable thrombophili...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Moore T,Norman P,Harris PR,Makris M

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study explored the role of attachment insecurity in cervical screening behaviors and barriers in a sample of 257 female undergraduates. Information on attachment dimensions as well as attachment style was collected. Attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance were associated with decreased likelihood of ha...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Hill EM,Gick ML

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to assess the association of several risk factors for eating disturbances in adolescents. Participants were 448 girls and boys aged 12-15 years. Being female, higher body mass index, internalisation of standard of appearance, perfectionism, body dissatisfaction, number of lifetime addictive behaviours and low...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Gutiérrez T,Espinoza P,Penelo E,Mora M,González ML,Rosés R,Raich RM

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evidence about psychological therapies used to manage co-morbid depression after a spinal cord injury is presented here. A comprehensive search of five electronic databases identified nine studies (participants, n = 591) meeting inclusion criteria. Pooled statistical analyses were conducted in combination with nar...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Perkes SJ,Bowman J,Penkala S

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the effects of the personality trait of unmitigated communion (UC) within the context of positive and negative relationship events. Ninety-one women diagnosed with fibromyalgia syndrome completed initial measures of UC as well as weekly measures of positive and negative relationship events and posi...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Nagurney AJ

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to assess the association between temperament and metabolic syndrome markers. Cloninger's Temperament and Character Inventory and clinical examination were carried out in 1997 in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 (N = 4364 respondents). Novelty seeking was positively associated with wais...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Sovio U,King V,Miettunen J,Ek E,Laitinen J,Joukamaa M,Veijola J,Järvelin MR

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Women in recovery from early stage gynaecological cancer have extremely good survival and low recurrence rates. Despite this, women continue to feel vulnerable to cancer recurrence for years after treatment. Semi-structured interviews were utilized to explore the factors involved in recovery from gynaecological cancer...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Bradley EJ,Calvert E,Pitts MK,Redman CW

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health risk judgments are not merely based on risk statistics but also on the ease with which hypothetical events are imagined. We explored the effects of scenario information as opposed to frequency information on susceptibility perceptions regarding Chlamydia and HIV. Results showed that participants felt more susce...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Mevissen FE,Meertens RM,Ruiter RA,Feenstra H,Schaalma HP

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined nonverbal intelligence and scholastic achievement in children with type 1 diabetes. In a retrospective case-control study, 69 children (35 males) ages 5-10 years with type 1 diabetes and 69 healthy controls matched to patients by age, gender and socioeconomic status were compared according to their...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Troncone A,Chianese A,Zanfardino A,Cascella C,Confetto S,Perrone L,Iafusco D

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the utility of the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) along with additional constructs in predicting exercise, and explored the motivational antecedents of exercise intentions. Participants included 162 Canadian University College students (61% females). Measures of TPB, autonomous and controlling i...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Brickell TA,Chatzisarantis NL,Pretty GM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Falling seriously ill is often experienced as a life event that causes conflict with people's personal goals and expectations in life and evokes existential questions. This article presents a new humanities approach to the way people make meaning of such events and how this influences their quality of life. Incorporat...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Hartog I,Scherer-Rath M,Kruizinga R,Netjes J,Henriques J,Nieuwkerk P,Sprangers M,van Laarhoven H

更新日期：2020-05-01 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

abstract：:Emerging behavioral research on methamphetamine suggests a growing public health concern no longer limited to specific regions of the United States. Given that current evidence-based treatments for addressing methamphetamine addiction have had limited success, there remains a need to further examine the efficacy of th...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Shrem MT,Halkitis PN

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The PACE trial of cognitive behavioural therapy and graded exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis has raised serious questions about research methodology. An editorial article by Geraghty gives a fair account of the problems involved, if anything understating the case. The response by ...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Edwards J

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Generalized perceived powerlessness is an important psychosocial construct that determines a wide range of health behaviors and outcomes. This study has two aims: (1) examine the structure of the newly developed perceived powerlessness scale using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses and (2) assess the scale's...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Lim S,Powell TW,Xue QL,Towe VL,Taylor RB,Ellen JM,Sherman SG

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study objectives were (1) comparison of baseline characteristics between individuals with metabolic syndrome, adhering/not adhering to a primary prevention program modificação do estilo de vida e risco cardiovascular; and (2) determination of risk factors for program adherence. The sample included 127 participants...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Susin N,de Melo Boff R,Ludwig MW,Feoli AM,da Silva AG,Macagnan FE,da Silva Oliveira M

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00