Understanding the causes of breast cancer treatment delays at a teaching hospital in Ghana.

abstract：:There has been an increased usage of online cancer support groups as a resource for health-related information and social support. This work analyzes message blog posts from an anonymous online support community to better understand issues related to gender and identity among female adolescent and young adults. This w...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Pounders K,Stowers K,Wilcox G,Love B,Mackert M

更新日期：2017-04-01 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：:Living with a rare disease can present unique challenges not shared by individuals with common diseases. A content analysis explored which challenges, in participants' own words, are most prevalent across a sample of individuals ( n = 1157) with diverse rare diseases in the United States. Symptoms, activity limitation...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Bryson B,Bogart K,Atwood M,Fraser K,Locke T,Pugh K,Zerrouk M

更新日期：2019-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims at examining the attachment states of mind in 50 female outpatients with eating disorders compared with 50 matched control participants using the Adult Attachment Interview. Moreover, the differences in attachment states of mind among eating-disordered women with and without borderline personality diso...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Pace CS,Guiducci V,Cavanna D

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to investigate the relationship between community social support, neighbor relationship, and the subjective well-being of the elderly in China. Structural equation modeling was used to test the hypothesized model based on a sample of 2732 senior adults from 2010 Chinese General Social Survey. Results ...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Jiang S,Li C,Wang Z,Fang X

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cancer disrupts development, the experience of having cancer is often understood using developmental theories that do not assume serious illness at an early age. This article presents a narrative analysis of one patient's story of survivorship. She tells three interrelated stories: how others have reacted to ...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Lee CS

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present research examined the respondents' preferences for approach and avoidance health aspirations (i.e. health related life goals) in relation to their age and self-rated health (SRH) in a representative Hungarian sample (N = 4841). Higher age predicted stronger preference for both orientations of health aspira...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Martos T,Konkolÿ Thege B,Kopp MS

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to antiretroviral therapies, HIV is now a chronic illness rather than a terminal disease. Chronic symptoms, including fatigue, should be identified and managed to prevent or minimise their potential negative consequences. We apply a Symptom Management Model to conceptualise fatigue among adolescents with HIV. In t...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Loades ME,Kagee A

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:Patients aged 18-65 years with newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus ( n = 89) or rheumatoid arthritis ( n = 100) were studied by the General Coping Questionnaire at baseline and after 24 months. In total, 34 diabetes mellitus and 46 rheumatoid arthritis patients were diagnosed with psychosocial problems. The use of negat...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Gåfvels C,Hägerström M,Rane K,Wajngot A,Wändell PE

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about how middle-aged and older men are affected by idealized depictions of male singers in music television. A total of 116 males completed pre- and post-test measures of body satisfaction, mood, and social comparison and viewed 5 minutes of clips containing scenery, muscular- or average-looking singe...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Mulgrew KE,Cragg DN

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'Race' as identified by skin colour has been traditionally associated with the notion of the Other. In western culture the black man as Other has acted as a type of repository into which white men have projected anxieties about, for example, their sexuality. In psycholog...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Stowell-Smith M,McKeown M

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the pathways between treatment intensity (age at diagnosis, dosage of chemotherapy [intrathecal methotrexate; IT-MTX] and cranial radiation [CRT]) and various psychosocial outcomes, review of medical records and structured interviews were carried out in 510 adult survivors of childhood leukemia. Structura...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Chen E,Zeltzer LK,Bentler PM,Byrne J,Nicholson HS,Meadows AT,Mills JL,Haupt R,Fears TR,Robison LL

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:Decision fatigue is an applicable concept to healthcare psychology. Due to a lack of conceptual clarity, we present a concept analysis of decision fatigue. A search of the term "decision fatigue" was conducted across seven research databases, which yielded 17 relevant articles. The authors identified three antecedent ...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Pignatiello GA,Martin RJ,Hickman RL Jr

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Worsening depressive symptoms and walking impairment are significant burdens in multiple sclerosis. We explored the reciprocal relationship between depressive symptoms and walking impairment in a cohort of 269 people with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis over 2 years. The data were examined using longitudinal pa...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Ensari I,Adamson BC,Motl RW

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few qualitative studies have examined the views of adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) regarding psychosocial programme development and content. We conducted focus groups with 13 adolescents with T1DM to explore stressors and gain feedback on adapting a generic coping skills programme. The following preva...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Serlachius A,Northam E,Frydenberg E,Cameron F

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the association between mental adjustment styles and quality of life, and affect as a mediator among 238 Chinese cancer survivors. Regression analysis showed that quality of life was positively associated with fighting spirit and negatively associated with fatalism. Path analysis showed that greate...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Yeung NC,Lu Q

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interdependencies of Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee members in 222 teaching hospitals were studied by use of the social relations model. Cooperation, influence, frustration and enjoyment were studied among four-person subgroups chosen from the five roles recommended for hospitals by the American Society of Ho...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Bagozzi RP,Ascione FJ,Mannebach MA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

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：:This Swedish register-based cohort study examined whether asthma, hay fever and allergic dermatitis in late adolescence identified in the early 1970s are associated with antidepressant medication in middle age, between 2006 and 2009. After adjustment for childhood and adulthood sociodemographic characteristics, psycho...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Sato Y,Hiyoshi A,Melinder C,Suzuki C,Montgomery S

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nurses, nurse's aides, and physicians were presented with vignettes describing elderly patients and were asked to assess their level of pain from four external cues (facial expression, verbalizations, avoidance of movements and positions, and interpersonal contact) in three conditions: when the illness was not known, ...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Igier V,Sorum PC,Mullet E

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：:Internet forums represent a useful but understudied resource to understand psychosocial aspects of living with systemic lupus erythematosus. This study was aimed to describe the demand/supply of social support through the Internet in relation with the description of personal illness experiences. All the posts (118) fr...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Mazzoni D,Cicognani E

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous estimates of the prevalence of fatigue and chronic fatigue have derived largely from treated populations and have been biased by differential access to health-care treatment linked with gender, racial/ethnic and social class status. This study involves a community-based prevalence study of prolonged fatigue a...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Jason LA,Jordan KM,Richman JA,Rademaker AW,Huang CF,McCready W,Shlaes J,King CP,Landis D,Torres S,Haney-Davis T,Frankenberry EL

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibromyalgia is associated with widespread pain, depression, and declines in physical functioning. The purpose of this study was to examine the trajectory of these symptoms over time related to physical activity adoption and maintenance via motivational interviewing versus education, to increase physical activity. The...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Steiner JL,Bigatti SM,Ang DC

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the research programme introduced in this article is to provide new knowledge regarding comprehensive multisectoral approaches to breaking the negative cycle of poverty and mental ill-health. The programme undertakes an analysis of existing mental health policies in four African countries (Ghana, South ...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Flisher AJ,Lund C,Funk M,Banda M,Bhana A,Doku V,Drew N,Kigozi FN,Knapp M,Omar M,Petersen I,Green A

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：: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：:A Participant Action Research process was carried out with individuals affected by Inflammatory Bowel Disease, more specifically Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis. The results show evidence of a transformation of social representations of disease. 'Normalization' is the central component of the transformation, in...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Krause M

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00