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The potential role of illness expectations in the progression of medical diseases
To what extent can one’s mind promote direct changes to the body? Can one’s beliefs about the body become a physical reality, without mediating effects from behaviors? Specifically, can medical symptoms and th...BMC Psychology 2019 7:70Stress among university students: factorial structure and measurement invariance of the Italian version of the Effort-Reward Imbalance student questionnaire
In the last decade academic stress and its mental health implications amongst university students has become a global topic. The use of valid and theoretically-grounded measures of academic stress in universit...BMC Psychology 2019 7:68Yoga intervention and reminder e-mails for reducing cancer-related fatigue - a study protocol of a randomized controlled trial
Almost 90% of cancer patients suffer from symptoms of fatigue during treatment. Supporting treatments are increasingly used to alleviate the burden of fatigue. This study examines the short-term and long-term ...BMC Psychology 2019 7:64The effects of martial arts participation on mental and psychosocial health outcomes: a randomised controlled trial of a secondary school-based mental health promotion program
Mental health problems are a significant social issue that have multiple consequences, including broad social and economic impacts. However, many individuals do not seek assistance for mental health problems. ...BMC Psychology 2019 7:60Gender differences among Indigenous Canadians experiencing homelessness and mental illness
Indigenous people are over represented among homeless populations worldwide and the prevalence of Indigenous homelessness appears to be increasing in Canadian cities. Violence against Indigenous women in Canad...BMC Psychology 2019 7:57Does the discrepancy between implicit and explicit attitudes moderate the relationships between explicit attitude and (intention to) being physically active?
Explicit attitudes as well as implicit attitudes have been shown to be associated with physical activity (PA). These two types of attitudes can, however, be discrepant towards the same object or behavior. This...BMC Psychology 2019 7:52Association between fatigue, motivational measures (BIS/BAS) and semi-structured psychosocial interview in hemodialytic treatment
Nowadays there is a growing interest in exploring causes of fatigue symptoms and the possible linked aspects in patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) receiving hemodialysis (HD) treatment. Inflammatory pr...BMC Psychology 2019 7:49Association among dispositional mindfulness, self-compassion, and leukocyte telomere length in Chinese adults
Whereas meditation training has been purported to support slower cellular aging, little work has explored the association among different facets of dispositional mindfulness, self-compassion, and cellular agin...BMC Psychology 2019 7:47Too much time? Time use and fertility-specific quality of life among men and women seeking specialty care for infertility
There are known gender differences in the impacts infertility has on quality of life and well-being. Less is known about how infertile couples spend time on fertility-related tasks and associations with qualit...BMC Psychology 2019 7:45The link between mental health and safe drinking water behaviors in a vulnerable population in rural Malawi
Mental disorders, particularly depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, are common long-term psychological outcomes in emergency contexts arising from conflicts, natural disasters, and other challenging ...BMC Psychology 2019 7:44Anxious or empowered? A cross-sectional study exploring how wearable activity trackers make their owners feel
The market for wearable activity trackers has grown prolifically in recent years, with increasing numbers of consumers using them to track, measure, and ideally improve their health and wellbeing. Empirical ev...BMC Psychology 2019 7:42“It all needs to be a full jigsaw, not just bits”: exploration of healthcare professionals’ beliefs towards supported self-management for long-term conditions
Long-Term Conditions are physical health issues which profoundly impact physical and psychological outcomes and have reached epidemic worldwide levels. An increasing evidence-base has developed for utilizing Supp...BMC Psychology 2019 7:38User perspectives on a psychosocial blended support program for partners of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and progressive muscular atrophy: a qualitative study
Partners are often the main caregivers in the care for patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and progressive muscular atrophy (PMA). Providing care during the progressive and fatal disease course o...BMC Psychology 2019 7:35Response: Sharpe, Goldsmith and Chalder fail to restore confidence in the PACE trial findings
In a recent paper, we argued that the conclusions of the PACE trial of chronic fatigue syndrome are problematic because the pre-registered protocol was not adhered to. We showed that when the originally specif...BMC Psychology 2019 7:19The Correspondence to this article has been published in BMC Psychology 2019 7:15The Research article to this article has been published in BMC Psychology 2018 6:6Development of the Informed Choice in Mammography Screening Questionnaire (IMQ): factor structure, reliability, and validity
Informed choice is of ethical and practical importance in mammography screening. To assess the level to which decisions regarding such screening are informed is thus imperative, but no specific instrument has ...BMC Psychology 2019 7:17The PACE trial of treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome: a response to WILSHIRE et al
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is chronic disabling illness characterized by severe disabling fatigue, typically made worse by exertion. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) is thought by some to be the same disorde...BMC Psychology 2019 7:15The Correspondence to this article has been published in BMC Psychology 2019 7:19The Research article to this article has been published in BMC Psychology 2018 6:6Possible relation between consumption of different food groups and depression
Diverse studies have investigated the relationship between diet and depression. In fact some cross-sectional studies suggested that a healthy diet reduced the risk for depression. The main objective of this st...BMC Psychology 2019 7:14Prevalence and associated factors of common mental disorders among adult patients attending HIV follow up service in Harar town, Eastern Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
In developed countries, there are well documented mental health impacts of HIV/AIDS and patients’ quality of life. Acquiring HIV/AIDS can be a serious psychological trauma and can predispose a person to differ...BMC Psychology 2019 7:11The influence of pre-motivational factors on behavior via motivational factors: a test of the I-Change model
The I-Change Model for explaining motivational and behavioral change postulates that an awareness phase precedes the motivation phase of a person, and that effects of pre-motivational factors on behavior are p...BMC Psychology 2019 7:7Wellbeing intervention for chronic kidney disease (WICKD): a randomised controlled trial study protocol
Incidence of end stage kidney disease (ESKD) for Indigenous Australians is especially high in remote and very remote areas of Australia (18 and 20 times the rate of comparable non-Indigenous people). Relocatin...BMC Psychology 2019 7:2Exploratory study of the impact of perceived reward on habit formation
Habits (learned automatic responses to contextual cues) are considered important in sustaining health behaviour change. While habit formation is promoted by repeating behaviour in a stable context, little is k...BMC Psychology 2018 6:62Stigma doesn’t discriminate: physical and mental health and stigma in Canadian military personnel and Canadian civilians
Illness-related stigma has been identified as an important public health concern. Past research suggests there is a disproportionate risk of mental-health stigma in the military, but this same finding has not ...BMC Psychology 2018 6:61A problem shared is a problem halved? Comparing burdens arising for family caregivers of patients with disorders of consciousness in institutionalized versus at home care
Disorders-of-consciousness (DOC) are rare conditions leading to very severe physical and mental disabilities. Providing care for DOC patients has been described as a stressful experience, eroding the physical ...BMC Psychology 2018 6:58A dyadic planning intervention to quit smoking in single-smoking couples: design of a randomized controlled trial
Tobacco use is the largest preventable cause of death. Smoking cessation interventions that use implementation intentions show promising results. Implementation intentions are if-then plans that specify a cert...BMC Psychology 2018 6:53Consequences of screening in cervical cancer: development and dimensionality of a questionnaire
Cervical cancer screening will inevitably lead to unintentional harmful effects e.g. detection of indolent pathological conditions defined as overdetection or overdiagnosis. Overdiagnosis often leads to overut...BMC Psychology 2018 6:39A blended psychosocial support program for partners of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and progressive muscular atrophy: protocol of a randomized controlled trial
Informal caregivers of patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or Progressive Muscular Atrophy (PMA) face stressful demands due to severe impairments and prospect of early death of the patients they ...BMC Psychology 2018 6:20Psychological health is associated with knee pain and physical function in patients with knee osteoarthritis: an exploratory cross-sectional study
Depressive symptoms are a major comorbidity in older adults with knee osteoarthritis (OA). However, the type of activity-induced knee pain associated with depression has not been examined. Furthermore, there i...BMC Psychology 2018 6:19A longitudinal study on how implicit attitudes and explicit cognitions synergistically influence physical activity intention and behavior
Strategies to promote physical activity (PA) focus mainly on changing or fostering explicit cognitions and are only modestly effective. Contemporary studies suggest that, as well as explicit cognitions, implic...BMC Psychology 2018 6:18Agreement between parent and child report of physical activity, sedentary and dietary behaviours in 9-12-year-old children and associations with children’s weight status
To date, population based surveys aimed at gaining insight in health related behaviour of children have often used either child self-reports or parent proxy reports. It remains unclear however, if surveys usin...BMC Psychology 2018 6:14Promoting psychosocial well-being following stroke: study protocol for a randomized, controlled trial
Stroke is a major public health threat globally. Psychosocial well-being may be affected following stroke. Depressive symptoms, anxiety, general psychological distress and social isolation are prevalent. Appro...BMC Psychology 2018 6:12Effectiveness of psychological interventions to improve quality of life in people with long-term conditions: rapid systematic review of randomised controlled trials
Long-term conditions may negatively impact multiple aspects of quality of life including physical functioning and mental wellbeing. The rapid systematic review aimed to examine the effectiveness of psychologic...BMC Psychology 2018 6:11Rethinking the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome—a reanalysis and evaluation of findings from a recent major trial of graded exercise and CBT
The PACE trial was a well-powered randomised trial designed to examine the efficacy of graded exercise therapy (GET) and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for chronic fatigue syndrome. Reports concluded that...BMC Psychology 2018 6:6The Correspondence to this article has been published in BMC Psychology 2019 7:19The Correspondence to this article has been published in BMC Psychology 2019 7:15Psychological issues and construction of the mother-child relationship in women with cancer during pregnancy: a perspective on current and future directions
Cancer during pregnancy is a rare event. However, knowledge about treatment has progressed in recent years with improved maternal and neonatal outcomes. The number of women who decide to continue their pregnan...BMC Psychology 2018 6:10The Norwegian healthy body image programme: study protocol for a randomized controlled school-based intervention to promote positive body image and prevent disordered eating among Norwegian high school students
Body dissatisfaction and disordered eating raise the risk for eating disorders. In the prevention of eating disorders, many programmes have proved partly successful in using cognitive techniques to combat such...BMC Psychology 2018 6:8Believability of messages about preventing breast cancer and heart disease through physical activity
The purpose of this research was to examine the relationships of self-reported physical activity to involvement with messages that discuss the prevention of heart disease and breast cancer through physical act...BMC Psychology 2018 6:2Exploring narratives of resilience among seven males living with spinal cord injury: a qualitative study
It is a challenge for both individuals and families when an illness or traumatic injury results in a severe spinal cord injury. The on-going physical impairments experienced by persons with spinal cord injury ...BMC Psychology 2018 6:1Psychosocial vulnerability underlying four common unhealthy behaviours in 15–16-year-old Swedish adolescents: a cross-sectional study
Factors that influence unhealthy behaviours in adolescents may have different impacts in different sociocultural settings. There is lack of research on the association between psychosocial vulnerability and un...BMC Psychology 2017 5:39Association between baseline psychological attributes and mental health outcomes after soldiers returned from deployment
Psychological health is vital for effective employees, especially in stressful occupations like military and public safety sectors. Yet, until recently little empirical work has made the link between requisite...BMC Psychology 2017 5:32Usefulness and engagement with a guided workbook intervention (WorkPlan) to support work related goals among cancer survivors
Returning to work after cancer is associated with improved physical and psychological functioning, but managing this return can be a challenging process. A workbook based intervention (WorkPlan) was developed ...BMC Psychology 2017 5:34An umbrella review of the literature on the effectiveness of psychological interventions for pain reduction
Psychological interventions are widely implemented for pain management and treatment, but their reported effectiveness shows considerable variation and there is elevated likelihood for bias.BMC Psychology 2017 5:31Theory based interventions for caries related sugar intake in adults: systematic review
Theories of behavior change are essential in the design of effective behaviour change strategies. No studies have assessed the effectiveness of interventions based on psychological theories to reduce sugar int...BMC Psychology 2017 5:25Illness beliefs among patients with chronic widespread pain - associations with self-reported health status, anxiety and depressive symptoms and impact of pain
Chronic widespread pain (CWP) is a disabling condition associated with a decrease in health. Illness beliefs are individual and are acquired during life. Constraining beliefs may prevent patients from regainin...BMC Psychology 2017 5:24Micro-drinking behaviours and consumption of wine in different wine glass sizes: a laboratory study
Tableware size may influence how much food and non-alcoholic drink is consumed. Preliminary evidence of the impact of glass size on purchasing of alcoholic drinks shows an increase in wine sales of almost 10% ...BMC Psychology 2017 5:17Psychometric limitations of the 13-item Sense of Coherence Scale assessed by Rasch analysis
A person’s sense of coherence (SOC) reflects their perception that the world is meaningful and predictable, and impacts their ability to deal with stressors in a health-promoting manner. A valid, reliable, and...BMC Psychology 2017 5:18Disordered eating and emotion dysregulation among adolescents and their parents
Research on the relationships between adolescent and parental disordered eating (DE) and emotion dysregulation is scarce. Thus, the aim of this study was to explore whether mothers’ and fathers’ own DE, as mea...BMC Psychology 2017 5:12“These people, you just guide them until they become these people”: learning to become a frequent indoor tanner
Many young women experiment with using indoor tanning beds with some becoming regular users. There is a dearth of research focused on factors related to the development of regular tanning. This study was desig...BMC Psychology 2017 5:11Gender differences in beliefs about health: a comparative qualitative study with Ghanaian and Indian migrants living in the United Kingdom
There is a well-established association between migration to high income countries and health status, with some groups reporting poorer health outcomes than the host population. However, processes that influen...BMC Psychology 2017 5:8Relationships between pathologic subjective halitosis, olfactory reference syndrome, and social anxiety in young Japanese women
Pathologic subjective halitosis is known as a halitosis complaint without objective confirmation of halitosis by others or by halitometer measurements; it has been reported to be associated with social anxiety...BMC Psychology 2017 5:7Kidney dysfunction, systemic inflammation and mental well-being in elderly post-myocardial infarction patients
The aim was to investigate whether mild kidney dysfunction and low-grade inflammation in post-myocardial infarction patients are independently associated with markers of mental well-being (i.e. depressive and ...BMC Psychology 2017 5:1Attentional and affective consequences of technology supported mindfulness training: a randomised, active control, efficacy trial
Mindfulness training (MT) programs represent an approach to attention training with well-validated mental health benefits. However, research supporting MT efficacy is based predominantly on weekly-meeting, fac...BMC Psychology 2016 4:60
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