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：: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：: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：: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：:In this article we present an alternative to inventory checklist approaches to measuring coping. We utilized a qualitative approach to explore themes of problem-focused, emotion-focused and meaning-focused coping in a sample of 98 women from diverse backgrounds and caregiving situations. Their narratives reflected the...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Brannen C,Petite K

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports a systematic review of literature published between 1994 and 2004 on the effects of performing arts for health in young people aged 11-18. The review includes research on music, performance, drama and dance in community settings and non-curricular mainstream education. A total of 17 electronic dat...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Daykin N,Orme J,Evans D,Salmon D,McEachran M,Brain S

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:We assessed perceived cancer-related change in 153 recently diagnosed patients. High levels of social support and optimism at the start of chemotherapy predicted higher numbers of perceived positive changes and lower numbers of negative changes nine months later. Higher numbers of perceived gains predicted an increase...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Pinquart M,Fröhlich C,Silbereisen RK

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：:To address the inconsistent findings and based on Hegel's dialectic contradictive principle, this study tested a parallel mediation model that may underlie the association of using prayer for coping with cardiac surgery outcomes. Three sequential interviews were conducted with 310 patients who underwent open-heart sur...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Ai AL,Peterson C,Tice TN,Huang B,Rodgers W,Bolling SF

更新日期：2007-07-01 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 longitudinal study identified processes of exercise behaviour change (POC) associated with movement between the stages of exercise behaviour change (SOC). Participants' (N = 312) physical activity, SOC and POC were recorded at baseline, one, three, six and 12 months post-test. Following baseline, participants rec...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Lowther M,Mutrie N,Scott EM

更新日期：2007-03-01 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：:This study examined the associations of susceptibility, conceptualized as both a cognition (risk) and as affect (worry) and their possible interaction, with cancer screening behaviors. Data for this study were obtained from the 2003 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS). Hierarchical regression models asse...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Moser RP,McCaul K,Peters E,Nelson W,Marcus SE

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:An individual's attachment style can be conceptualized as a working model for interactions with others, developed as result of experiences with childhood caregivers. People with hypochondriacal tendencies are preoccupied with thoughts of having an illness and constantly seek medical reassurance. We hypothesized that s...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Wearden A,Perryman K,Ward V

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the association between religious coping, mental health and the caring experience, as well as potential explanatory mechanisms, among 162 informal caregivers of terminally ill cancer patients. Regression analyses indicated that, controlling for socio-demographic variables, more use of positive ...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Pearce MJ,Singer JL,Prigerson HG

更新日期：2006-09-01 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 article reviews the main epistemological approaches within health psychology. It considers the approach based on critical realism and various strategies for linking health psychology with social action. It argues that critical health psychology has a distinct contribution to make in promoting public health as par...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Murray M,Poland B

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was conducted to determine if an intervention could change social support and social-ecological resources of post-menopausal women diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, and if those changes mediated the intervention's effects on health behaviors and outcomes. Women (N = 279) were randomly assigned to receive a compr...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Barrera M Jr,Toobert DJ,Angell KL,Glasgow RE,Mackinnon DP

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews, critiques and politicises the positivist approaches that presently dominate alcohol advertising health research, and considers the benefits of a culturalist alternative. Positivist research in this area is identified as: (1) atheoretical and methods-driven; (2) restricted in focus, leaving critic...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Cherrington J,Chamberlain K,Grixti J

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：:This study was designed to investigate whether people who engage more frequently in healthy behaviours, and attach a higher value to health, are likely to engage less frequently in tattooing and piercing. One hundred and eight participants with tattoos and/or piercings completed questionnaires including the Reported H...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Huxley C,Grogan S

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research suggests that depression and anxiety can affect quality of life in breast cancer survivors. Moreover, certain cognitive control beliefs have been implicated in the development and maintenance of both depression and anxiety. The present study examined the relationship between breast cancer locus of control bel...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Naus MJ,Price EC,Peter MP

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The psychological, emotional and social consequences of disrupted reproductive and sexual development in men are poorly understood. Interview data from eight men who had experienced gender atypical sexual development were analysed using the framework of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. The concept of 'discred...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Chadwick PM,Liao LM,Boyle ME

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quality of life impairments are greater in chronic daily headache (CDH) than in episodic headache conditions like migraine. This qualitative interview study aimed to identify psychological processes associated with quality of life impairments among individuals meeting diagnostic criteria for CDH. Grounded theory analy...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Tenhunen K,Elander J

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated systolic and diastolic blood pressure, heart rate variability and skin conductance at baseline, and 1 and 4 months in 38 participants with elevated blood pressure, randomly assigned to expressive writing or control groups. There was a significant interaction such that the very low frequency wave of heart ...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： McGuire KM,Greenberg MA,Gevirtz R

更新日期：2005-03-01 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：:Accuracy of recall of the number of sexual partners individuals had over a period of one month, three months, six months and one year was studied in a group of 285 young, single, heterosexual adults. Self-reports of the number of partners were obtained on a weekly basis and then compared with recall of behavior over l...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Jaccard J,McDonald R,Wan CK,Guilamo-Ramos V,Dittus P,Quinlan S

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little attention has been paid to the issue of emotional verbalization in people undergoing chronic situations. We addressed this issue in the present study focusing on chronic pain patients. Our study investigated the verbalization of their health-related emotions, as well as the role of interpersonal variables on pa...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Herbette G,Rimé B

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article I consider the changing context and constitution of food in contemporary society, and the variety of ways it is bound up in health, identity and social relations. In particular, I briefly discuss the position of food in health, illness, embodiment, and the ways that food is becoming increasingly medica...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Chamberlain K

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to determine how men react to and manage chronic conditions 16 men with Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) were interviewed to examine the relationship between detecting symptoms and seeking medical help, perceptions of symptoms and the impact of symptoms on daily life. Transcripts were analysed employing IP...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Gannon K,Glover L,O'Neill M,Emberton M

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article seeks to contribute to the debate about participation and health by presenting a framework for psychosocial interventions in primary health care. It highlights the social psychological dimensions of participation and the role it plays in improving conditions of living and thus health. The Freirean concept...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Guareschi PA,Jovchelovitch S

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In public health promotion, behavioural science theories and theory-based methods should be translated into practical strategies that fit environmental conditions and are feasible for implementation. In this article, an effort to meet this challenge is presented. As a starting point we describe the conditions for deve...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Uutela A,Absetz P,Nissinen A,Valve R,Talja M,Fogelholm M

更新日期：2004-01-01 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

abstract：:Stress is becoming more significant for women, along with the increasing number of women in the workforce. The present study compared women with respect to burnout and coping abilities, and related to the impact of educational level on differences in coping strategies. Women with coronary heart disease reported a high...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Hallman T,Thomsson H,Burell G,Lisspers J,Setterlind S

更新日期：2003-07-01 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：:The field of critical psychology is exerting an influence in the way various sub-disciplines within psychology operate. In this article we use a critical psychology framework to review the field of health psychology. Through the use of values, assumptions and practices we review progress in health psychology and offer...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Prilleltensky I,Prilleltensky O

更新日期：2003-03-01 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：:A growing number of major health care organizations, such as the American Heart Association and the Mayo Clinic, are investing considerable resources in developing and marketing Internet-based programs for health promotion and disease management. These programs have the potential to provide some of the best-tailored i...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Cummins CO,Prochaska JO,Driskell MM,Evers KE,Wright JA,Prochaska JM,Velicer WF

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00