Metacognitive therapy self-help for anxiety-depression: Single-blind randomized feasibility trial in cardiovascular disease.
Conclusions: Home-MCT was acceptable and feasible to deliver to CR patients experiencing anxiety and depression, and the feasibility of conducting a full-scale trial of the intervention was established. Home-MCT may provide additional treatment options for cardiac patients experiencing psychological distress. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - April 25, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Goal prioritization and behavior change: Evaluation of an intervention for multiple health behaviors.
Conclusions: The present findings offer new evidence that goal prioritization is effective in promoting health behavior change. Prioritizing health goals engenders behavior change for both one and two focal behaviors and does so without adversely affecting the performance of nonprioritized health behaviors. Further tests of interventions to promote the priority of health goals are warranted. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - April 25, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Discrimination and health: The mediating role of daily stress processes.
Conclusion: Daily psychological stress processes are a potential mechanism by which exposure to unfair treatment relates to health. Findings underscore the insidious nature of unfair treatment and demonstrate how such experiences may be particularly consequential for daily stress processes and later physical and mental health outcomes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - April 25, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Meta-analysis of interpersonal discrimination and health-related behaviors.
Conclusions: The documented meta-analytic associations between perceptions of IPD and a variety of HB provide supportive evidence for one pathway through which IPD heightens risk for negative physical health outcomes among marginalized groups. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - April 25, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Beliefs about influenza and avoidance of free influenza immunization among people with chronic diseases.
Objective: People with chronic diseases may have poor influenza-related outcomes. The study objective was to examine the association between the dimensions of the Health Belief model and noncompliance with influenza immunization. Method: study participants were community-dwelliing individuals from the Foča region (Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina) listed to receive free influenza immunization for the season 2017/2018 due to chronic diseases. After vaccination season was completed, we included all nonvaccinated people and the corresponding number of vaccinated people. The data collection lasted from April to Dece...
Source: Health Psychology - April 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Carbon monoxide monitoring to objectively measure smoking status in cardiac rehabilitation.
This study examined smoking status using self-report versus objective measurement using expired carbon monoxide (CO) and compared patient characteristics by CO level. Method: Patients were screened for smoking status when entering CR by self-report and by objectively measured CO. Measures of aerobic fitness, educational attainment, depressive symptoms, and self-reported physical function were also collected. The discrepancy between smoking status based on self-report and objective measurement was examined and patient characteristics by CO measurement were compared. Results: Of the 853 patients screened, 62 self-reported cu...
Source: Health Psychology - April 7, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Association of the built environment and neighborhood resources with obesity-related health behaviors in older veterans with hypertension.
Conclusions: Geographical location is associated with exercise and diet. Environment-tailored health recommendations could promote healthier lifestyles and decrease obesity-related cardiovascular disease. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - April 7, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Cardiac-disease-induced posttraumatic stress symptoms (CDI-PTSS) among cardiac patients’ partners: A longitudinal study.
Conclusions: The findings shed light on potential risk factors for partners’ CDI-PTSS. Interventions to ameliorate partners’ distress and fear of illness progression should be designed toward reducing the development of CDI-PTSS among partners. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - April 7, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Factors associated with self-reported social isolation among patients with cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Conclusions: We identified younger age, females, unmarried, current smokers, more risk mitigation behaviors, and more perceived life changes increased odds of social isolation for patients with cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic. This can inform identification of patients with cancer at higher risk of social isolation for targeted mitigation strategies. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - March 24, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Facets of stigma, self-compassion, and health-related adjustment to lung cancer: A longitudinal study.
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate whether three facets of lung cancer stigma (internalized stigma, constrained disclosure, and perceived subtle discrimination) uniquely predicted psychological and physical health-related adjustment to lung cancer across 12 weeks. Additionally, self-compassion was tested as a moderator of the stigma-health relationship. Method: Adults receiving oncologic treatment for lung cancer (N = 108) completed measures of lung cancer stigma, self-compassion, depressive symptoms, cancer-related stress, and physical symptom bother. Multivariable linear regression models were used to in...
Source: Health Psychology - March 24, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Distress, depression, anxiety, and resilience in patients with cancer and caregivers.
Conclusions: Distress, depression, and anxiety are common in patients with cancer but also in cancer caregivers. Resilience appears to be an important variable to consider alongside distress and may enhance our understanding of the relationships among distress and depression/anxiety, especially for individuals with cancer. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - March 24, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Introduction to the special section: Resilience for physical and behavioral health.
This article introduces a special section on resilience as it relates to health psychology. In this special section, resilience in the context of cardiovascular disease, neurological disorders, sleep disorders, and cancers are studied. This special section is part of an American Psychological Association (APA) interdivisional journal series on resilience. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - March 24, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
PTSD symptoms and tinnitus severity: An analysis of veterans with posttraumatic headaches.
Conclusions: Trauma therapists should assess for the presence of tinnitus in order to more fully conceptualize key health problems of help-seeking patients. Heightened psychological symptoms seemingly related to PTSD may be a function of tinnitus-related distress. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - March 17, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Physical inactivity, cigarette smoking, and psychiatric comorbidity among veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder.
Background: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with physical inactivity and cigarette smoking. However, little is known about the degree to which comorbid psychiatric conditions affect the odds of physical inactivity and smoking among individuals with PTSD. Objective: To examine associations between PTSD, comorbid psychiatric conditions (depression, anxiety, or hazardous alcohol/substance use), physical inactivity and smoking among military veterans. Method: This was a cross-sectional analysis of data on U.S. veterans from Project VALOR (Veterans’ After-discharge Longitudinal Registry; n = 1140). Logistic...
Source: Health Psychology - March 17, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Area-level racial prejudice and health: A systematic review.
Conclusions: Future research should continue to develop the conceptual and methodological rigor of this work and test hypotheses to inform evidence-based interventions to advance population health and reduce racial health inequities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - March 7, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
