Lu Qiao, Shanshan Xu, Wenrui Zhang, Shijia Liu, Xiuyun Lin
{"title":"Information seeking and subsequent affective well-being in Chinese young adults: the mediating effects of worry.","authors":"Lu Qiao, Shanshan Xu, Wenrui Zhang, Shijia Liu, Xiuyun Lin","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2395867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2024.2395867","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aimed to unravel micro-processes that link information seeking to subsequent affective well-being (i.e., positive and negative affect) at the within-person level, as well as the role of worry as a mediator in this relationship.</p><p><strong>Methods and measures: </strong>Within the initial weeks following the Chinese government's relaxation of its epidemic control measures, 184 participants completed experience sampling methods on information seeking, COVID-related worry, and affective well-being three times a day for 14 days.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>According to dynamic structural equation models, information seeking was associated with high negative affect but not with low positive affect. COVID-related worry acted as a full mediator between information seeking at the previous time point (approximately 5 h ago) and the current negative affect, but not in positive affect.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>These findings suggested that the impact of information seeking on affective well-being was different for the two dimensions of affect. Furthermore, the persistent impact of information seeking on negative affect was attributed to the indirect effect of worry, suggesting that worry should be a point of focus for intervention to mitigate the potentially negative effects of information seeking within the context of the public health crises.</p>","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142111332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hojjat Daniali, Pia Louise Hunsbeth, Magne Arve Flaten
{"title":"Effects of open and hidden administration of treatment-related information; a multi-experiment study.","authors":"Hojjat Daniali, Pia Louise Hunsbeth, Magne Arve Flaten","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2392820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2024.2392820","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Two experiments (E1 and E2; <i>N</i> = 44 and <i>N</i> = 52, respectively) investigated the effect of positive (PI) and neutral information (NI) about a dental procedure, and if the delivery of the information by the treatment team (open administration) or unbeknownst to the treatment team (hidden administration), affected pain.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using a mixed design, patients undergoing drilling in a molar were randomized to the NI or PI groups. Before, during, and after treatment, patients reported their pain and stress levels. In E1 the treatment team delivered the information. In E2, an assistant not engaged in the treatment delivered the information.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In the PI group in E1, pain was reduced by 50 % compared to the NI group, and the effects of stress on pain were mitigated. These effects were abolished in E2. The dentist reported having displayed positive nonverbal behaviours (e.g. smiling and longer eye contact) in the PI group in E1, but not in E2.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Positive information reduced pain only when administrated openly. There was no effect of positive information administrated hidden from the treatment team. As information was similar in both experiments, factors other than the information most likely reduced pain in the PI group in E1.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Delivering positive information by the treatment team may generate behavioural cues which generate placebo effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-29"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142111330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Holly Wilson, Liesje Donkin, Jeff Harrison, Kim Brackley, Anecita Gigi Lim, Amy Hai Yan Chan
{"title":"'I didn't want to go home' patient-identified modifiable risk factors associated with hospital readmission: a qualitative study.","authors":"Holly Wilson, Liesje Donkin, Jeff Harrison, Kim Brackley, Anecita Gigi Lim, Amy Hai Yan Chan","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2391912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2024.2391912","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Hospital readmissions are costly for patients, their families and healthcare systems. Identifying and addressing risk factors can reduce the number of people who experience readmission. Few studies have explored modifiable risk factors such as health beliefs from patients' perspective to explore the complexity of risk factors for readmission. This study aimed to identify modifiable readmission risk factors from the perspectives of patients who have experienced readmission and their families.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Adults (≥18 years) readmitted within 30 days of discharge to a general medical or surgical ward at a large urban hospital in New Zealand were invited to participate in a semi-structured interview to explore their readmission experience. Interviews were conducted during the readmission and were analysed using inductive thematic analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 30 participants were interviewed. Six themes relating to readmission were identified: inadequate communication between health professionals and patients, misalignment between patient illness perceptions and treatment, unclear or missing information, poor health literacy, poor medication mismanagement, and health system factors.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings highlight the importance of considering patient experiences, such as their expectations, illness and treatment beliefs, to reduce readmissions. Ensuring communication is patient centred and quality professional-patient relationships could reduce readmissions.</p>","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142009351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding the disconnect between lifestyle advice and patient engagement: a discourse analysis of how expert knowledge is constructed by patients with CHD.","authors":"Martine Robson, Sarah Riley, Donogh McKeogh","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2390031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2024.2390031","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Adherence to healthy lifestyle advice is effective in prevention of non-communicable diseases like coronary heart disease (CHD). Yet patient disengagement is the norm. We take a novel discursive approach to explore patients' negotiation of lifestyle advice and behaviour change.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A discourse analysis was performed on 35 longitudinal interviews with 22 heterosexual British people in a long-term relationship, where one had a diagnosis of CHD. The analysis examined the relationships between patients' constructions of expert knowledge and the implications of these accounts for patients' dis/engagement with lifestyle advice.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Expert knowledge was constructed in four ways: (1) Expert advice was valued, but adherence created new risks that undermined it; (2) expert knowledge was problematised as multiple, contradictory, and contested and therefore difficult to follow; (3) expert advice was problematised as too generalised to meet patients' specific needs; and (4) expert advice was understood as limited and only one form of valued knowledge.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Patients and partners simultaneously valued and problematised expert knowledge, drawing on elaborate lay epistemologies relating to their illness which produced complex patterns of (dis)engagement with expert lifestyle advice. Recognition of the multiple and fluid forms of knowledge mobilised by CHD patients could inform more effective interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141917360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Valentina Elisabetta Di Mattei, Paola Taranto, Gaia Perego, Margherita Caneva, Marta Parma, Eleonora Fontana, Massimo Candiani, Lorenzo Montali
{"title":"Illness experience and (unmet) needs of women with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser Syndrome (MRKH): a qualitative analysis of an online forum.","authors":"Valentina Elisabetta Di Mattei, Paola Taranto, Gaia Perego, Margherita Caneva, Marta Parma, Eleonora Fontana, Massimo Candiani, Lorenzo Montali","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2390647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2024.2390647","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH) is a congenital condition characterized by the underdevelopment or complete absence of the uterus and the upper part of the vagina. Diagnosis is commonly made during adolescence, a sensitive period for psychophysical development, following the absence of menstruation. Having MRKH syndrome can have a profound and multifaceted psychosocial impact that characterizes these women's subjective experiences, although it continues to be qualitatively understudied. This article explores the lived experience of women with MRKH spontaneously recounted on an online support forum. The aim was to gain insight into the features of the syndrome experience to understand deeply the emotional and social impact of the condition and the individual needs expressed online.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using a naturalistic observation stance, data was collected from an online support forum for MRKH women and systematically analyzed using thematic analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Four main interconnected themes are identified: the impact of being diagnosed with MRKH, the difficult interaction with the medical environment, challenging social relationships, and the unmet needs of MRKH women.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>A multidisciplinary and person-centered approach that provides effective and sensitive management of the condition and its psychosocial implications, is essential. Recommendations for future research and practical clinical implications for healthcare professionals are proposed.</p>","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141971764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sleep, movement, and dietary behaviours: the mediating role of affect.","authors":"Qing Zhong, Jiasheng Huang","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2390027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2024.2390027","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Previous studies indicated a link between good sleep, optimal movement, and a healthy diet, but the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. This diary study aimed to investigate the effects of sleep behaviour on movement and dietary behaviours as well as the mediating role of affect.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>One hundred and twenty college students completed twice daily assessments of health behaviours and affect for 28 days. Multilevel structural equation modelling was used to examine the relationships between sleep, health behaviours, and the mediating role of affect.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>At the between-person level, sufficient sleep was associated with less overeating. At the within-person level, sleep duration predicted less sedentary behaviour, while sufficient sleep predicted higher water intake and more sedentary behaviour. Negative affect mediated the relationship between sleep quality/duration and exercise measures (events, duration), while positive affect mediated the relationships between sleep quality/duration and overeating, exercise measures, and sedentary behaviour. Positive affect mediated the relationships between sufficient sleep, exercise measures, and sedentary behaviour.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Sleep can indirectly influence other health behaviours by decreasing negative affect or increasing positive affect. These findings emphasise the significance of sleep in promoting a healthy lifestyle and the role of affect, especially positive affect, in this process.</p>","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141971765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"'It is up to me because I gave him this life' How the awareness of being permanently and unconditionally responsible shapes the experience of chronic sorrow in parents of disabled children.","authors":"Edith Raap, Katie Lee Weille, Christine Dedding","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2378736","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2378736","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The majority of parents with a disabled child experience chronic sorrow, characterized by recurrent feelings of grief and loss related to their child's disability. There is a significant lack of research on parents' lived experiences of chronic sorrow, which limits our ability to understand parents' needs and provide proper support.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was conducted based on in-depth interviews with six parents of severely disabled children.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In the literature on chronic sorrow, an important aspect has been consistently overlooked: the particular position of being a parent, experiencing an awareness of being ultimately responsible for their children. The analysis revealed how this awareness, experienced as a deeply felt ethical commitment, unconditional, largely in isolation, and without a limit in time, shaped the experience of chronic sorrow. Because of this awareness, the parents experienced themselves facing a Herculean task of navigating their intricate emotions while struggling to maintain their ability to function.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>By revealing the importance of considering the unique parental position, the study enriches the concept of chronic sorrow, simultaneously offering insights into what it means to be a parent of a disabled child. These insights can improve care professionals' responsiveness to parental needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141917359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"More is not always better: revealing the impact of cumulative risk on health-promoting behaviors among miners and the mediating role of health beliefs.","authors":"Lulu Wang, Jiaqi Li, Denghui Wang, Xianpeng Liu, Ruipeng Tong","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2388725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2024.2388725","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Health-promoting behaviors carry substantial significance for miners' overall health and well-being. This study aimed to examine the association between cumulative risk (CR) and miners' health-promoting behaviors and test the mediating role of health beliefs in this relationship.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data were collected from a sequential survey conducted among 712 frontline miners (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub>=41.7 ± 10.1 years) in China. The survey entailed online questionnaire measurements at three distinct time points, each spaced two weeks apart. This study utilized the conceptual model of health-promoting behaviors, the CR model, and structural equation modeling in the analysis of relationships.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>CR was negatively related to health-promoting behaviors, with a negative acceleration effect. CR was positively associated with perceived threat in a gradient effect, while negatively associated with perceived benefits in a gradient effect. Furthermore, CR was negatively related to self-efficacy, following a negative acceleration effect. Perceived threat, perceived benefits, and self-efficacy emerged as significant mediators in the relationship between CR and health-promoting behaviors.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study highlights the critical role of considering both CR and health beliefs in shaping miners' health-promoting behaviors. Understanding these dynamics is pivotal for developing interventions to enhance miners' health and well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141907576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chaofeng Li, Yingying Fan, Dan Chen, Yuwei Wu, Yi Huang, Dan Liu
{"title":"Relationship between marital satisfaction and defeat in IVF-ET: based on actor-partner interdependence model approach.","authors":"Chaofeng Li, Yingying Fan, Dan Chen, Yuwei Wu, Yi Huang, Dan Liu","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2387213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2024.2387213","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>A person's marital satisfaction is a strong predictor of their own mental health outcomes. However, marital satisfaction results from both spouses' experiences, so a partner's marital satisfaction also affects his or her mental health outcomes. This study adopted the actor-partner interdependence model approach (APIM) to evaluate the relationship between marital satisfaction and sense of defeat <i>in vitro</i> fertilization-embryo transfer (IVF-ET) couples.</p><p><strong>Methods and measures: </strong>In this cross-sectional study, 181 infertile couples undergoing IVF-ET treatment were recruited using the Marital Satisfaction Scale of the ENRICH Marital Quality Questionnaire and Defeat Scale. Through APIM and Pearson analysis, the path relationship between marital satisfaction and defeat was analyzed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The varying degrees of defeat in IVF-ET couples, are closely related to actors' and partners' marital satisfaction. In terms of actor effects, the Marital Satisfaction of both husbands (<i>β</i> = -0.71, <i>p</i> < 0.001) and wives (<i>β</i> = -0.46, <i>p</i> = 0.001) have a significant effect on individual Defeat. With regard to partner effects, husbands' Marital Satisfaction (<i>β</i> = -0.23, <i>p</i> = 0.038) has a significant impact on wives' Defeat and the wives' Marital Satisfaction (<i>β</i> = -0.45, <i>p</i> = -0.005) has a significant impact on husbands' Defeat.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>IVF-ET couples must be looked at as a whole, and it is critical to include couples and not just men or women when studying infertility. The importance of their interaction is essential to improve the psychosocial adaptation of infertile couples in IVF-ET treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141889926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Beth Nichol, Catherine Haighton, Rob Wilson, Angela M Rodrigues
{"title":"Enhancing making every contact count (MECC) training and delivery for the third and social economy (TSE) sector: a strategic behavioural analysis.","authors":"Beth Nichol, Catherine Haighton, Rob Wilson, Angela M Rodrigues","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2386289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2024.2386289","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To enhance Making Every Contact Count (MECC, an opportunistic approach to health promotion), training in the Third and Social Economy (TSE, all groups and organisations primarily working towards social justice, outside of the government or household) by examining the degree to which the behavioural content of MECC training tackled significant factors influencing MECC delivery.</p><p><strong>Methods and measures: </strong>A strategic behavioural analysis design. Semi-structured interviews with service providers (<i>n</i> = 15) and users (<i>n</i> = 5) were coded for barriers and facilitators of MECC delivery using the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF). Existing MECC training was coded for behaviour change techniques (BCTs) and intervention functions (IFs). The degree to which BCTs and IFs addressed the key TDF domains of influences on MECC delivery in the TSE were examined using prespecified tools.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Seven key TDF domains of influences in MECC delivery were identified. Overall, only 9/31 linked BCTs were utilised within MECC training, with percentage utilisation of relevant BCTs for each domain ranging from 0% to 66.7%. Training adequately addressed 2/7 key domains.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The TSE and healthcare share many common key TDF domains, although there are differences in how each are relevant. Limitations and recommendations for MECC training are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-32"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141860715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}