Cogan, Nicola Gallant, Allyson J Nicholls, Louise A Brown Rasmussen, Susan Young, David Williams, Lynn
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Journal of health psychology
We sought to establish whether two recently developed measures, the 5C scale and the Vaccination Attitudes Examination (VAX) were reliable and valid for use with older adults. A total of 372 UK-dwelling participants (65-92 years, M = 70.5 years, SD = 4.6) completed a cross-sectional survey measuring health and socio-demographic characteristics in r...
Dark-Freudeman, Alissa Bensadon, Benjamin A
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Journal of health psychology
End-of-life (EOL) medical care in the United States often does not align with patients' goals and preferences. This study explored EOL hopes and fears among 86 community-dwelling adults and examined medical and psychological predictors of death anxiety. Common EOL hopes included absence of suffering, closure, and personal fulfillment. Common EOL fe...
Hunt, Joanne Blease, Charlotte Geraghty, Keith J
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Journal of health psychology
Whilst parallels have been drawn between Long Covid and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), there is a well-documented history of negative stereotyping and marginalisation of patients with ME/CFS. A socio-politically oriented comparison of scientific, clinical and societal responses to Long Covid and ME/CFS is thus importan...
Van Niekerk, Leesa Johnstone, Lucy Matthewson, Mandy
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Journal of health psychology
This international cross-sectional study examined the relationships between endometriosis-related symptom experience and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in 318 women with endometriosis. Measures of symptom burden and distress, pain, psychological wellbeing, and HRQoL were collected via an online survey. Age, symptom duration, burden, and dis...
Quigley, Martyn Whiteford, Seb Cameron, Gemma Zuj, Daniel V Dymond, Simon
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Journal of health psychology
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact global psychological wellbeing. To investigate the sustained impact of COVID-19 on wellbeing, the current study longitudinally assessed fear of COVID-19, anxiety, depression, intolerance of uncertainty, worry, sleep quality, loneliness and alcohol use during the pandemic in the United Kingdom. Timepoint 1 (...
Harris, Charlie L Goldman, Brian M Gurkas, Pinar Butler, Crystal Bookman, Priscilla
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Journal of health psychology
The role that the superwoman schema (SWS) plays in U.S. Black women's perceptions of barriers (biological, psychological, and sociological) to healthy weight management is unknown. This exploratory study examined whether 122 women classified as normal weight, overweight or obese differed in their perceptions of types of barriers and if the SWS pred...
Chen, Crystal Gonzales, Lauren
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Journal of health psychology
Weight stigma is a well-established risk factor for eating disorder pathology, and it is prevalent among healthcare professionals. The current investigation developed and psychometrically validated the Scale for Treatment-based Experiences of Weight Stigma (STEWS) for patient-centered assessment of weight-stigmatizing experiences in eating disorder...
Kuru, Ozan Chan, Man-Pui Sally Lu, Hang Stecula, Dominik Andrzej Jamieson, Kathleen Hall Albarracín, Dolores
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Journal of health psychology
How do religious affiliation and beliefs shape vaccine attitudes and behaviors? This study examined the associations of attitudes and behaviors relevant to the flu, measles-mumps-rubella (MMR), and human-papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines with religious affiliations, as well as philosophical, spiritual, and moral beliefs. Respondents were 3005 adults fr...
Gouzman, Julia Soskolne, Varda Dekel, Rachel
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Journal of health psychology
This viewpoint article reviews theoretical approaches that are relevant to studying COVID-19 and the psychological reactions to it. We suggest that the published research can be viewed from four major theoretical perspectives: as a stress situation, traumatic event, shared reality/shared trauma, and loss and grief situation. We detail the terms and...
Sui, Wuyou Morava, Anisa Tsang, Jason Sui, Anna Rhodes, Ryan E
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Journal of health psychology
The purpose of our study was to describe characteristics of behavior change techniques (BCTs) employed by popular YouTube fitness channels and examine relationships between BCTs used and engagement metrics (e.g. views, likes, comments). Seventy-five videos were coded according to BCT Taxonomy v1. Multi-level modeling was conducted between BCTs and ...
