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
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
Integration of implementation science in cardiovascular behavioral medicine.
Cardiovascular behavioral medicine has significantly advanced the knowledge base regarding the mechanisms by which psychological and behavioral factors can impact cardiovascular function and has developed clear links between these factors and cardiovascular health and disease. More recent work has established numerous behavioral interventions that are efficacious, and in several cases demonstrated to be effective. However, despite these significant advances, translation to broad, real-world uptake and utilization has not been well studied, with consequential profound implications for health equity. The purpose of this arti...
Source: Health Psychology - August 11, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
"Harnessing the placebo effect: Exploring the influence of physician characteristics on placebo response": Correction.
Conclusion: This study suggests that placebo effects should be construed not as a nuisance variable with mysterious impact but instead as a psychological phenomenon that can be understood and harnessed to improve treatment outcomes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - August 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
"Harnessing the placebo effect: Exploring the influence of physician characteristics on placebo response": Correction.
Conclusion: This study suggests that placebo effects should be construed not as a nuisance variable with mysterious impact but instead as a psychological phenomenon that can be understood and harnessed to improve treatment outcomes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - August 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Cumulative burden of symptomatology in patients with gynecologic malignancies undergoing chemotherapy.
This study sought to evaluate whether symptoms accumulated over the course of several chemotherapy cycles, which could provide essential information for planning supportive interventions. Method: Patients with gynecologic malignancies completed questionnaires about fatigue, depressive symptoms, sleep, and physical activity 1 week before and after chemotherapy cycles 1, 3, and 6. Multilevel models examined the effects of time (pre- and postchemotherapy), treatment cycle (1, 3, 6), and their interaction on symptoms. Logistic regression models examined the effects of time, treatment cycle, and their interaction on the proport...
Source: Health Psychology - July 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Cumulative burden of symptomatology in patients with gynecologic malignancies undergoing chemotherapy.
This study sought to evaluate whether symptoms accumulated over the course of several chemotherapy cycles, which could provide essential information for planning supportive interventions. Method: Patients with gynecologic malignancies completed questionnaires about fatigue, depressive symptoms, sleep, and physical activity 1 week before and after chemotherapy cycles 1, 3, and 6. Multilevel models examined the effects of time (pre- and postchemotherapy), treatment cycle (1, 3, 6), and their interaction on symptoms. Logistic regression models examined the effects of time, treatment cycle, and their interaction on the proport...
Source: Health Psychology - July 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Dispositional optimism and optimistic bias: Associations with cessation motivation, confidence, and attitudes.
Objective: To test whether 2 conceptually overlapping constructs, dispositional optimism (generalized positive expectations) and optimistic bias (inaccurately low risk perceptions), may have different implications for smoking treatment engagement. Method: Predominantly Black, low-income Southern Community Cohort study smokers (n = 880) self-reported dispositional optimism and pessimism (Life Orientation Test—Revised subscales: 0 = neutral, 12 = high optimism/pessimism), comparative lung cancer risk (Low/Average/High), and information to calculate objective lung cancer risk (Low/Med/High). Perceived risk was categorized a...
Source: Health Psychology - July 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Psychological covariates of blood pressure among patients with hypertension and metabolic syndrome.
Conclusions: Our findings provide a deeper insight on the relationship between variability of psychological variables within individuals and their levels of blood pressure. The findings support the need for health services to implement evidence-based psychological interventions that can foster a better management of the hypertensive disease. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - July 21, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
