Health Psychology : a Textbook

WHAT IS SCREENING? There are three forms of prevention aimed at improving a nation’s health: 1 Primary prevention refers to the ...

the USA, which stimulated interest in the concept of population screening. In Britain, the inter-war years saw the development o ...

prevalence and incidence of a wide variety of disorders and illnesses. Morris (1964), in his book Uses of Epidemiology, stressed ...

PSYCHOLOGICAL PREDICTORS OF THE UPTAKE OF SCREENING The numbers of individuals who attend different screening programmes vary en ...

check-up, blood pressure measurement and cholesterol testing, a cervical smear, mammography) and suggested that both the cogniti ...

consultation in terms of its aims, the skills involved and patient expectations. The analyses showed that the interviewees descr ...

each address and contacted a ‘responsible adult’ in order to record details of all of those in the household aged over 16. One p ...

Confidence: the subjects were asked to rate their confidence in performing breast self-examination as a measure of their self- ...

best predictor of the dependent variable. The results suggest that the best predictor of breast self-examination was confidence ...

of screening programmes; and (3) the possible psychological side effects of screening on the individual. These criticisms consti ...

appeared to increase the rate of cerebral palsy measured at 18 months of age (Shy et al. 1990). In a recent review of the effect ...

to unnecessary treatment interventions and the associated anxiety and uncertainty. A false-negative result may lead to an illnes ...

involve shifting funds from other services. In addition, the ‘inverse care law’ (Hart 1971), which suggests that those who seek ...

The Family Heart Study The Family Heart Study (Wood et al. 1994) examined the effects of screening and lifestyle interventions o ...

in Bedfordshire and aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of health checks by nurses in general practice in reducing risk factors ...

‘Promotion of health inevitably results in the awareness of sickness’ and suggested that screening results in introspection. Skr ...

qualitative methods to explore why negative genetic results can fail to reassure. They interviewed nine people who had received ...

and further assessed the additional impact of treatment (Palmer et al. 1993). The results showed that following the diagnosis, t ...

are still encouraged to promote good health, but no longer by identifying diseases at an asymptomatic stage, but by encouraging ...

is not necessarily a good idea, there is still an emphasis on methods to improve uptake of screening. Perhaps promoting uptake i ...