Mediators of change in cognitive-behavioral couple therapy for genito-pelvic pain: Results of a randomized clinical trial.
Conclusions: Pain catastrophizing may be a mediator specific to CBCT for PVD, explaining improvements in pain and sexuality. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - March 2, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Dose–response relations between the frequency of two types of momentary feedback prompts and daily physical activity.
Conclusions: Self-monitoring and behavioral feedback are not interchangeable behavior change techniques in digital physical activity interventions, and only self-monitoring prompts show signs of a dose-response association with physical activity volume. Activity trackers, such as smartwatches and mobile apps, should provide an option to replace behavioral feedback prompts with self-monitoring prompts to promote physical activity among insufficiently active young adults. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - March 2, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Cost-inclusive research on health psychology interventions: Why, how, and what next.
Health Psychology, Vol 42(3), Mar 2023, 139-150; doi:10.1037/hea0001280Cost-inclusive research (CIR) uses observations, interviews, self-reports, and archival records to collect data on the types, amounts, and monetary values of resources that make health psychology interventions (HPIs) possible in healthcare and community settings. These resources include time of practitioners, patients, administrators, space in clinics and hospitals, computer hardware, software, telecommunications, and transportation. CIR adopts a societal perspective by including patient resources such as time spent participating in HPIs, income foregon...
Source: Health Psychology - March 2, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Seven-year distress trajectories in uveal melanoma survivors.
Conclusions: Much of the burden of persistent distress in cancer patients falls on a small proportion of survivors. Concerns about symptoms and functional problems are potential risk factors for distress. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - February 27, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The emergence and persistence of the anti-vaccination movement.
Health Psychology, Vol 42(8), Aug 2023, 516-520; doi:10.1037/hea0001273Vaccine hesitancy is a significant threat to public health and the anti-vaccination movement has played a significant role in communicable disease outbreaks. This commentary discusses the history and tactics of vaccine denialists and anti-vaccination groups. Anti-vaccination rhetoric is robust on social media platforms, and vaccine hesitancy has proven to impede the uptake of both established and new vaccines. Effective counter-messaging is needed to preemptively discredit vaccine denialists and reduce their influence on vaccine uptake. (PsycInfo Databa...
Source: Health Psychology - February 20, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A global meta-analysis of depression, anxiety, and stress before and during COVID-19.
Conclusion: NEs increased during the pandemic, with younger and student populations, females and Asians having the highest elevations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - February 20, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Socioeconomic status, positive experiences, and allostatic load.
Conclusions: The results suggest complexity in associations between cumulative socioeconomic advantage, positive life events, and physiological well-being. Positive life events may play a stronger role in physiological health in those of lower socioeconomic advantage, as one of multiple pathways through which lower SES is linked to poor health. Given the modifiability of access to, and frequency of, positive life events, the potential role of positive experiences in lessening health disparities warrants further study. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - February 20, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Loneliness, social isolation, and healthcare utilization in the general population.
Conclusions. Our findings suggest that loneliness slightly increased the number of general practice contacts and emergency room treatments. Overall, the effects of loneliness and social isolation on HCU were small. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - February 20, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Effects of a video-based positive side-effect information framing: An online experiment.
Conclusions: Facing the ongoing coronavirus mass vaccinations, positive information frames have a small but significant impact on vaccination concerns while upholding informed consent. Although intervention trials are still pending, this approach could help decrease vaccine hesitancy by reducing fearful expectations. However, it seems that it should not be used without considering vaccination attitudes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - February 13, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Vaccination intention and uptake within the Black community in Appalachia.
Conclusions: These findings suggest that social interventions targeting racial discrimination in healthcare may significantly help address vaccination disparities in rural Black communities. Moreover, results emphasize unique aspects of vaccination behavior in the Black community within Appalachia that may generalize to other Black communities living in rural regions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - February 13, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
How people use information about changes in infections and disease prevalence.
Conclusions: Information about changes in infections consistently influences people's risk judgments and drive subsequent behavioral response. The impact of prevalence information, however, is limited to situations in which changes in infections are stable, such that it affects risk judgments and behavior decisions only when changes in infections demonstrate a constant upward or downward direction. The results point to the need for public health interventions to increase the impact of prevalence information. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - February 2, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Prenatal tobacco exposure associations with physical health and neurodevelopment in the ABCD cohort.
Conclusions: PTE was linked to poorer health indicators at birth and neurodevelopmental outcomes at age 9–10 years in a large community cohort, independent of sociodemographic factors. Efficacious interventions for smoking-cessation during pregnancy are still needed and should incorporate support for breastfeeding to promote healthier development. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - January 30, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Family- and neighborhood-level environmental associations with physical health conditions in 9- and 10-year-olds.
Conclusions: Policymakers and public health officials must implement policies and remediation strategies to ensure children are free from exposure to neurotoxicant and environmental factors. Physical health conditions may be less of a product of an individual's choices and more related to environmental influences. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - January 12, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy in adults in the United Kingdom: Barriers and facilitators to uptake.
Conclusions: Addressing vaccine hesitancy is crucial to managing COVID-19. Findings indicate emphasizing specific benefits, such as protecting others, while addressing barriers, including side-effect misinformation, is key to driving vaccine uptake. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - January 12, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Self-worth and developmental outcomes in young adults after pediatric bariatric surgery.
Conclusions: Group difference findings suggest that the impact of surgery was on self-worth and romantic self-perceptions, outcomes linked in the developmental literature to body image. For both groups, functioning appeared similar to population-based findings, suggesting they are meeting “expected” age-salient developmental outcomes. The impact of earlier positive family functioning on self-worth and self-perceptions of maturity may place adolescents on pathways to success. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - January 12, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
