Valdivia, Lucianne J Alves, Lucas Pc Rocha, Neusa S
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Journal of health psychology
This study aimed to translate into Brazilian Portuguese and evaluate the main psychometric properties from Spiritual Health and Life-Orientation Measure in a sample of 487 students aged 9-15 years in Southern Brazil. Spiritual Health and Life-Orientation Measure is divided into Ideals and Lived Experience sections and showed high internal consisten...
LaNoue, Marianna D Gerolamo, Angela M Powell, Rhea Nord, Garrison Doty, Amanda Mb Rising, Kristin L
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Journal of health psychology
Research suggests that patient uncertainty related to experiencing symptoms may drive decisions to seek care. The only validated measure of patient uncertainty assesses uncertainty related to defined illness. In prior work, we engaged patients to describe uncertainty related to symptoms and used findings to develop the 'U-Scale' scale. In this work...
Määttänen, Ilmari Ravaja, Niklas Henttonen, Pentti Puttonen, Sampsa Paavonen, Kristian Swan, Heikki Hintsa, Taina
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Journal of health psychology
Trait-like sensitivity to stress in long QT syndrome patients has been documented previously. In addition, mental stress has been associated with symptomatic status of long QT syndrome. We examined whether the symptomatic type 1 long QT syndrome patients would be more sensitive to mental stress compared to asymptomatic patients and whether there wo...
Burke, Anne Lj Mathias, Jane L Denson, Linley A
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Journal of health psychology
Despite many patients waiting more than 2 years for treatment at publicly funded multidisciplinary chronic pain services, waitlist studies rarely examine beyond 6 months. We investigated psychological adjustment and health-care utilisation of individuals (N = 339) waiting ≤30 months for appointments at an Australian tertiary pain unit. Outcomes wer...
Moye, Jennifer Jahn, Allison Norris-Bell, Rebecca Herman, Levi I Gosian, Jeffrey Naik, Aanand D
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Journal of health psychology
This qualitative study aimed to confirm and extend research on meaning making after cancer. In all, 119 adults aged 41 to 88 years (M = 65.50 years and standard deviation = 9.16 years) were interviewed 12 months after diagnosis of oral-digestive cancers. About half tried to understand why they got cancer (43%) and said that cancer changed their vie...
von Soest, Tilmann Torgersen, Leila Kvalem, Ingela Lundin
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Journal of health psychology
Cosmetic breast surgery experience and a wide range of mental health, psychosocial, and sociodemographic variables were assessed in the population-based Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (N = 78,252). Breast augmentation patients reported elevated mental health problems. Factors in the domains of physical appearance, drug use, relationships, ...
Álvares, Roberta Sonia Rodrigues Mendonça-de-Souza, Ana Carolina Ferraz Duarte, Antônio Fernando Araujo Gameiro, Thaís Medeiros Fischer, Nastassja Lopes Souza, Wanderson Fernandes Coutinho, Evandro da Silva Freire Figueira, Ivan Volchan, Eliane Souza, Gabriela Guerra Leal
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Journal of health psychology
We evaluated the participants' negative affect, positive affect, post-traumatic stress disorder, and depression symptoms before and after a peacekeeping mission. Depression symptoms and positive affect after mission were significantly associated with exposure to stressful events during the mission, controlled by the respective characteristics befor...
Andrade, Alexandro Vilarino, Guilherme Torres Sieczkowska, Sofia Mendes Coimbra, Danilo Reis Bevilacqua, Guilherme Guimarães Steffens, Ricardo de Azevedo Klumb
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Journal of health psychology
This study investigated the relationship between sleep quality and fibromyalgia symptoms in 326 patients. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index was used to assess the presence of sleep disorders. Multivariate analysis of variance was performed to determine the influence of fibromyalgia symptoms on sleep quality. The prevalence of sleep disorders was 9...
Sien, Pamela Lim Ming Jamaludin, Nur Iryani Amirah Samrin, Siti Nur Adila S, Nik Shanita Ismail, Rokiah Anuar Zaini, Azriyanti Sameeha, Mohd Jamil
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Journal of health psychology
Adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus are prone to have eating problems. This study aimed to determine factors of eating problems among this population in University Malaya Medical Centre. Fifteen adolescents who scored more than 20 marks in the Diabetes Eating Problem Survey - Revised questionnaire were invited for an in-depth interview. Quest...
Chen, Shuanghong Pu, Jiajia Ye, Xiaoxuan Wang, Yang Jackson, Todd
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We assessed the factor structure, correlates, and incremental validity of the Pain Appraisal Inventory in Chinese adult chronic pain samples. In an initial exploratory factor analysis sample (N = 301), the original two-component (threat, challenge) 16-item Pain Appraisal Inventory and a 10-item short form (Pain Appraisal Inventory-Short Form) were ...
