Youth perceptions of e-cigarette-related risk of lung issues and association with e-cigarette use.
Conclusions: Among AYAs who had ever used e-cigarettes, those who did not believe that e-cigarette use increases the risks of respiratory problems were more likely to have used e-cigarettes in the past month. To bridge the gap between youth perceptions and emerging scientific evidence on e-cigarette-related health risks, prevention messaging should seek to explain how e-cigarette use is linked to respiratory problems and could affect COVID-19 outcomes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - February 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Psychological well-being, education, and mortality.
Conclusions: We find strong evidence that psychological well-being predicts lower mortality risk and modifies the association between education and mortality. The inverse association between education and mortality becomes stronger at higher levels of purpose in life and positive affect. Therefore, efforts to promote life satisfaction, social support, and optimism may support longer lives without widening education disparities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - February 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Associations of positive and negative affect on health risk behaviors among Latinos.
Conclusions: Emphasis on increasing positive affect may be warranted for multiple health risk behavior interventions targeting Latinos. Intervention development efforts may also consider prioritizing positive affect for physical activity and dietary interventions, and negative affect for at-drinking and smoking cessation interventions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - February 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

An ecological model of weight gain among school-age children.
Conclusions: Overall, income-to-needs ratio emerged as the strongest link to obesity among the early elementary school years; this was particularly present among Latino youth. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - February 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Perceived behavioral control moderating effects in the theory of planned behavior: A meta-analysis.
Conclusions: Results support moderation of the intention-behavior relation by PBC in health behaviors. However, substantial unresolved heterogeneity in the effect across studies remained. Further, these effects may not generalize to other populations and moderator analyses were confined to broad categories. More research that tests these moderation effects in health behavior contexts and reports sufficient data necessary for conducting a meta-analysis is needed to enable moderator analyses with greater fidelity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - February 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Adolescent sleep duration and cardiometabolic risk in adulthood: Evidence from sibling comparison designs with biomarker data.
Conclusions: Adolescent sleep duration is associated with cardiometabolic risk in adulthood among males, but not females. A life course approach should be adopted in interventions aiming to reduce cardiovascular disease and diabetes. In particular, this study suggests that a fruitful approach to preventing cardiovascular issues in adulthood includes public health interventions that promote healthy sleeping patterns during adolescence. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - February 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Burnout among oncologists and oncology nurses: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Conclusions: Findings suggest differences in burnout between oncologists and oncology nurses and among geographic regions. This highlights the need for tailored interventions for different professions and regions. Hospitals should provide support and encourage teamwork to improve oncology professionals’ well-being and provide optimal care for patients. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - February 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Is more, better? Relationships of multiple psychological well-being facets with cardiometabolic disease.
Conclusions: Findings suggest having and sustaining multiple facets of psychological well-being is beneficial for cardiometabolic health, and that effects may be additive. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - February 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Progress in health-related behavioral intervention research: Making it, measuring it, and meaning it.
This report examines several barriers to progress toward better outcomes and discusses ways to overcome them. The solutions it presents include strengthening our collective commitment to achieving better outcomes; incentivizing this kind of progress; conducting more definitive, outcome-oriented randomized controlled trials; developing methods to measure successful treatment outcomes and to track success rate trends; and embracing stepwise approaches to preventing and treating health-related behavioral and psychosocial problems. The report concludes with a call for guidance and leadership on this complex and challenging iss...
Source: Health Psychology - February 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Subjective social status and allostatic load in mothers 1 year after birth.
Conclusions: Study findings demonstrate associations between perceptions of relative social standing and wear-and-tear on multiple physiological systems above and beyond indicators of objective SES, suggesting that psychosocial aspects of lower status may contribute to the gradient between social status and health. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - January 13, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), sleep, and cardiovascular disease risk: A mechanism-focused narrative review.
Conclusions: We outline several recommendations for future research and behavioral medicine models in order to help define and address the role of sleep behavior in the development of CVD among trauma-exposed individuals with PTSD. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - January 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Perceptions of cigarette smoking and weight in hypothetical hiring decisions.
Objective: Prior studies indicate lower employment and greater difficulty securing reemployment among individuals who smoke or are overweight. In an anonymous online survey, we examined willingness to hire candidates who smoke cigarettes or are overweight for different job types and tested respondents’ smoking history and body weight as moderating factors. Method: Employed U.S. adults (N = 1,107) were recruited online in 2019–2020. Respondents indicated their willingness to hire and hiring preferences for six different job roles in reference to eight different attributes, which included smoking and overweight status. A...
Source: Health Psychology - January 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The relationship of presurgical Personality Assessment Inventory scales to BMI following bariatric surgery.
Conclusions: This study extends previous research on psychological factors and weight outcomes over time among patients undergoing bariatric surgery. In contrast to a focus on clinical elevations when using broadband measures of psychopathology, these results suggest a more nuanced pattern of weight loss and subsequent regain associated with certain subclinical elevations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - January 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

From ideas to interventions: A review and comparison of frameworks used in early phase behavioral translation research.
This article describes the major frameworks that focus on early phase translation—that is, approaches that address the design and optimization of behavioral interventions before testing in Phase III efficacy trials. Differences between and common features of these models are described, opportunities for combining frameworks to maximize their impact are noted, and guidance is provided to enable investigators to choose the most useful model(s) when designing and optimizing health-related behavioral interventions. The goal of this article is to promote the consistent use of frameworks that encourage a systematic, progressiv...
Source: Health Psychology - January 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

An introduction to the special issue: From ideas to efficacy in health psychology.
The impetus for the special issue, “From Ideas to Efficacy” was the perceived need to stimulate and support a more vibrant research base that translates basic behavioral and social science research (bBSSR) discoveries to clinical and public health interventions. This special issue presents novel research that advances translational behavioral science, focusing primarily on the early phases of behavioral translation that are not as well recognized as later-phase translational science (e.g., dissemination and implementation research). The special issue includes a series of empirical, conceptual, and methodological papers...
Source: Health Psychology - January 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research