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
Health Psychology’s 40th anniversary.
This special issue of Health Psychology marks the conclusion of the journal’s 40th volume. George C. Stone founded Health Psychology in 1982 and served as our first Editor-in-Chief. He was also an accomplished behavioral scientist and the founder in 1975 of America’s first academic department of health psychology at the University of California at San Francisco. Many of us believe that health psychology is fundamentally an applied science, that the principal value of basic biopsychosocial research resides in its translational potential, and that we have to be a “solution-oriented” branch of science (Watts, 2017) in...
Source: Health Psychology - January 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Collaborative, dyadic, and individual planning and physical activity: A dyadic randomized controlled trial.
Conclusions: Individuals with insufficient physical activity or with a cardiovascular disease/type II diabetes and their partners may benefit from dyadic planning, which is a promising strategy to achieve physical activity increases. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - December 30, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A multimethod approach to measuring communal coping in adults with type 1 diabetes.
Conclusions: These findings support the two components of communal coping and suggest that collaboration can be detrimental for health among those who do not view an illness as shared. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - December 30, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Social support and HIV prevention behaviors among urban HIV-negative gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men.
Conclusions: The results of the current study advance social support theory to GBM in the context of biomedical prevention, showing both evidence of both direct associations and buffering effects on STI/HIV risk and prevention behaviors. This highlights the importance of promoting social support seeking in interventions aimed at improving GBM health. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - December 20, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Optimizing Making Every Contact Count (MECC) interventions: A strategic behavioral analysis.
Conclusions: Intervention developers should seize missed opportunities by incorporating more theoretically relevant BCTs to target barriers to implementing MECC. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - December 20, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Benchmarking the effectiveness of interventions to promote physical activity: A metasynthesis.
Conclusions: Conventional interpretations of effect size gravely misrepresent the effectiveness of interventions to promote physical activity. The percentile values for effect sizes, steps per days, minutes of MVPA, and percentage meeting guidelines reported here can be used to benchmark the effectiveness of future trials and should enable more informed judgments about trade-offs between effectiveness and considerations such as reach, burden, and cost. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - December 16, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Pediatric sickle cell pain-sleep relationships: The roles of positive and negative affect.
Conclusion: Further research is needed to examine the differential roles of positive and negative affect in other pain and adult SCD populations. Research examining the mechanisms by which positive and negative affect may influence the sleep–pain relationship is needed to inform future interventions to improve sleep and pain in the pediatric SCD population. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - December 16, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The pain of survival: Prevalence, patterns, and predictors of pain in survivors of childhood cancer.
Conclusion: Pain is prevalent among survivors of childhood cancer. Future research should characterize the experience of pain in this population so interventions may be developed. Assessment of pain during regular long-term follow-up appointments is warranted. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - December 16, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
