Intentions to receive COVID-19 vaccines in the united states: Sociodemographic factors and personal experiences with COVID-19.
Conclusions: Our findings confirm observations predating COVID-19 vaccine availability regarding sociodemographic characteristics associated with vaccine hesitancy in the United States. We further identify personal health care providers as the most trusted information source among people who “maybe” intend to get vaccinated and demonstrate the challenge in reaching people not intending to be vaccinated. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - September 5, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
COVID-19 vaccination: Conspiracy theories, demography, ideology, and personality disorders.
Conclusion: Implications for “rolling out” the vaccine are discussed in terms of who to target and how to address misbeliefs about vaccination. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - September 5, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Behaviors and psychological states associated with transitions from regaining to losing weight.
Conclusions: Engagement in more weight loss consistent behaviors and more favorable ratings of key psychological variables were associated with the rare shifts from gaining to losing. Future research should investigate interventions to help individuals quickly recover from weight regain. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - September 1, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Childhood adversity and adult health: A dyadic analysis of Black American couples.
Conclusion: Our findings replicate and extend prior research on the long-term impact of exposure to childhood adversity, suggesting that adverse childhood experiences are also harmful to romantic partners. Further studies are required to examine potential mechanisms. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - September 1, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Smoking across adolescence and adulthood with cardiovascular risk among American Indian peoples.
Conclusions: Socioecologically informed tobacco interventions have the potential to reduce smoking and cardiovascular risk among AIs, and bolstering social support may be important. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - September 1, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Behaviors and psychological states associated with transitions from regaining to losing weight.
Conclusions: Engagement in more weight loss consistent behaviors and more favorable ratings of key psychological variables were associated with the rare shifts from gaining to losing. Future research should investigate interventions to help individuals quickly recover from weight regain. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - September 1, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Childhood adversity and adult health: A dyadic analysis of Black American couples.
Conclusion: Our findings replicate and extend prior research on the long-term impact of exposure to childhood adversity, suggesting that adverse childhood experiences are also harmful to romantic partners. Further studies are required to examine potential mechanisms. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - September 1, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Smoking across adolescence and adulthood with cardiovascular risk among American Indian peoples.
Conclusions: Socioecologically informed tobacco interventions have the potential to reduce smoking and cardiovascular risk among AIs, and bolstering social support may be important. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - September 1, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
How health message framing and targets affect distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Conclusions: Owing to their low cost and easy implementation, health messages constitute a promising means to promote physical distancing. Our results show that their effectiveness significantly depends on the framing and target of the health behavior. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - August 25, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Brain system integration and message consistent health behavior change.
Conclusions: Interactions between the salience and default mode systems are associated with message receptivity and subsequent behavior change, highlighting the value of expanding the focus from the role of single brain regions in studying health behavior change to larger-scale connectivity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - August 25, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Anxiety following myocardial infarction: A systematic review of psychological interventions.
Conclusion: Psychological interventions may be beneficial to individuals who experience anxiety following a MI. No particular type of psychological intervention appears to be superior to others within the existing literature. Further rigorous research is needed to identify the needs of this population and the specific form of psychological intervention that is most effective in alleviating anxiety following MI. Clinical implications and recommendations for future research are provided. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - August 25, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Adoption and maintenance of physical activity: Mediation analysis of a psychological intervention.
Conclusions: The results contribute to opening “the black box” of processes behind an intervention and show that intervention effects of MoVo-LISA are partially mediated through the specified cognitive variables. The relevance of motivational variables (intention strength and self-concordance) in the adoption and maintenance phases is highlighted in this study and leads to relevant intervention design implications. Nevertheless, the differentiation of the two phases might help to improve intervention programs through a stronger focus on those cognitive parameters that are critical at a certain point in the behavior cha...
Source: Health Psychology - August 25, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Explaining COVID-19 vaccination intention in younger adults using protection motivation theory.
Conclusions: Although further research is needed, interventions and campaigns addressing COVID-19 vaccine acceptance may need to use strategies increasing young adults’ perceived severity of COVID-19 and their perceived ability to get vaccinated, while decreasing perceived reward of not getting vaccinated. Additionally, coronavirus conspiracy beliefs should be addressed in vaccine-hesitant individuals. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - August 18, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Resources and lymphocyte terminal maturity among older adults.
Conclusions: Outside the context of the “Great Recession”, psychological resources but not financial resources were associated with terminal maturity in T cells, a relationship related to CMV serostatus. Further studies in different and more diverse samples, and in different eras, are needed to understand what resources are most protective against immunological aging, when, and for whom. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - August 18, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Field experiment of signs promoting hand hygiene during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Conclusions: Dispensers with signs had higher use than those without signs, but this difference was not statistically significant. We conclude that compared to prior research, “nudges” such as evidence-based messaging may have had less of an effect on health behavior engagement due to methodological differences across studies or characteristics of the COVID-19 context. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - August 11, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
