abstract：:Given the potential of patients using computer programs in health care settings, we studied the effect of a fingerprint reader on responses to a computerized health screener. We randomized 76 primary care patients into two conditions: (1) fingerprint reader prior to screener; and (2) control condition. Overall, the re...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Sciamanna CN,Clark MA

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined the cognitive processes by which perceived locus of causality influences participation in leisure time physical activity. Based on the theoretical tenets of self-determination theory, it was hypothesized that deliberative modes of information processing and past behaviour will account for th...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Chatzisarantis NL,Hagger MS,Biddle SJ,Karageorghis C

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of perceiving symptoms of illness is complex, and many patients delay seeking care when symptoms of acute myocardial infarction occur. However delayed treatment can have great consequences for the prognosis. This article reports on a grounded theory study, the aim of which was to increase our understanding...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Brink E,Karlson BW,Hallberg LR

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study addressed the question of whether the traditional tripartite distinction between cognitive, decisional and behavioral control is meaningful as applied to desire for healthcare control. Subscales of the Krantz Health Opinion Survey and the Autonomy Preference Index were administered to 680 undergraduates alo...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Auerbach SM,Pegg PO

更新日期：2002-07-01 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：:Questionnaires concerning cervical screening behaviour and attitudes were completed by a convenience sample of 70 female students aged 20-25 years. Based on the Prochaska-DiClemente definitions of 'stages of change', participants were classified into precontemplation, contemplation, action and maintenance groups accor...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Eiser JR,Cole N

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The views of 32 women with iatrogenic Hepatitis C on its impact on their sense of wellbeing were elicited through focus groups. The views obtained were analysed using 'interpretative phenomenological analysis'. Accounts of profound fatigue, reactive depression, and deterioration in cognitive functioning predominated. ...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Dunne EA,Quayle E

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：:The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between perceptions of self-efficacy, proxy efficacy, and exercise class attendance of participants involved in a 10-week structured group fitness program. At week 3, 127 females completed measures of self-efficacy and proxy efficacy and their class attendance w...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Bray SR,Gyurcsik NC,Culos-Reed SN,Dawson KA,Martin KA

更新日期：2001-07-01 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：:AIDS risk behavior and attitudes towards safer sex were studied in a sample of 666 African American and 626 European American women. Condom use, AIDS-related knowledge, risk perception, self-efficacy beliefs, attitudes and perceived partner attitudes, and an assertive coping style were analyzed with regard to mean dif...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Schröder KE,Hobfoll SE,Jackson AP,Lavin J

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to identify factors considered to be important in the adjustment to amputation and the wearing of a prosthetic limb from the perspective of the person who has had a lower limb amputation. Hence, focus group methodology was employed as a means of acquiring perspectives within a population ...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Gallagher P,Maclachlan M

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：: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：:The Magical Beliefs About Food and Health scale (MFH) was developed to assess individual differences in the tendency to adopt eating and health instructions that many magazines, health care books and food ideologies regard as valid but which obey universal laws of similarity and contagion. In a study of 216 individual...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Lindeman M,Keskivaara P,Roschier M

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to investigate the relationship between dieting and global cognitive style in a non-clinical sample. Questionnaires were administered to 218 Australian undergraduate students. Dieting was operationalized in two ways: self-reported current dieting behaviour; and scores on dietary restraint. It was foun...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Tiggemann M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between negative affectivity (NA, i.e. the Neuroticism trait and transient distress), self-reported medical condition and somatic complaints was assessed in structural equation models also including personality (the Big Five personality domains), socio-demographic, and health behaviour variables. The ...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Vassend O,Skrondal A

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the relationship between religiosity and the affective and immune status of 33 HIV-seropositive mildly symptomatic African-American women (CDC stage B) in a replication of a prior study that reported an association between religiosity and affective and immune status in HIV-seropositive gay men. All...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Woods TE,Antoni MH,Ironson GH,Kling DW

更新日期：1999-05-01 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：: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：:Determinants of safer sexual behaviors among HIV-infected adult men with hemophilia were examined. A model was proposed that personal adjustment, communication skills, self-efficacy, and perceived advantages of condom use would influence safer sex practices. The model was tested with 181 men with hemophilia and HIV in...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Huszti HC,Parsons JT,Cotton D,Mendoza J,Harlow L,Rich L,Parish KL,Nuss R,Riske B

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatizing patients, who comprise approximately 20 percent of the primary care population, often present physicians with recurrent but confusing combinations of symptoms without organic explanations. Illness narratives presented during initial medical encounters with primary care physicians were examined qualitatively...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Elderkin-Thompson V,Silver RC,Waitzkin H

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to measure psychological distress in women with breast symptoms over a period of three months following an outpatient appointment at a rapid access symptomatic breast clinic. Women were recruited (N = 150) at the weekly clinic and psychological distress was measured using the Hospital Anxiety ...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Howard RA,Harvey PG

更新日期：1998-04-01 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：: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：:Measures of appearance motivation, obsessive-compulsive tendencies and tanning attitudes and behavior were completed by 175 adults, ages 16-65, who were approached while suntanning. Participants who scored high in both appearance motivation and obsessive-compulsive tendencies most strongly endorsed the importance of h...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Leary MR,Saltzman JL,Georgeson JC

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A crucial, but unexamined, assumption motivating research into socio-economic health differentials is that such differentials are unjust. An equal distribution of health, as well as of economic resources, is regarded as the proper goal of policy. I suggest that this assumption of 'the inequity of inequality' has its b...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Charlton BG

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 'Safe Sun' program had the goal of increasing patrons' and lifeguards' skin-protective behaviors and involved informational, prompting, feedback and goal-setting and incentive components coupled with pool lifeguards modeling protective behaviors such as wearing shirts, hats and sunglasses or staying in shaded area...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Winett RA,Cleaveland BL,Tate DF,Lombard DN,Lombard TN,Russ CR,Galper D

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This intervention aimed to decrease health-care workers' experience of automatic pilot (mindless functioning) when performing high risk procedures. An academic detailing visit resulted in a significant increase in compliance with safety guidelines and a decreased incidence of other unsafe practices among 80 health car...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Treloar CJ,Higginbotham N,Malcolm J,Sutherland D,Berenger S

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Critical illness places many challenges on the ill and their loved ones. These challenges are even more pronounced when the critically-ill individual is a child. This article provides a very personal narrative account of a mother's use of communication to cope with the many stresses, constraints and symbolic challenge...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Snetsinger WR

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of the family health-promotion project is introduced as a means of describing and analysing health-promoting processes in a family. We suggest that an action-theoretical conceptualization provides a language for dealing with socially embedded human behaviour. The levels of project organization are describe...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Valach L,Young RA,Lynam MJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00