Health Psychology : a Textbook

deaths in men and 2721 deaths in women per million in 1992. It has been estimated that CHD cost the UK National Health Service ( ...

showed that the most common causes derived from all methods were ‘smoking’, ‘stress’, ‘it’s in the family’, ‘working’ and ‘eatin ...

FOCUS ON RESEARCH 15.1: TESTING A THEORY: THE CONSEQUENCES OF DISEASE To explore the impact of disease on the constructs defined ...

Measurements Impairment: MI and stroke patients completed condition specific measures of impairment. These were the Orgogozo Neu ...

Predicting and changing behavioural risk factors for CHD CHD is strongly linked with a range of behavioural risk factors. Some r ...

cope with stressful situations. Kaluza (2000) evaluated an intervention designed to change the coping profiles of 82 healthy wor ...

may be a reduction of reinfarction. However, the relationship between type A behaviour and CHD is still controversial, with rece ...

management has been used successfully to reduce some of the risk factors for CHD disease, including raised blood pressure (Johns ...

ASSUMPTIONS IN HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY The research into obesity and CHD highlights some of the assumptions in health psychology: 1 Th ...

➧ Steptoe, A. (1981) Psychological Factors in Cardiovascular Disorders. New York: Academic Press. This book provides a comprehen ...

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16 Measuring health status From mortality rates to quality of life CHAPTER OVERVIEW This chapter examines the different ways in ...

MORALITY RATES At its most basic, a measure of health status takes the form of a very crude mortality rate, which is calculated ...

rater to evaluate the individual on a range of dimensions including bathing, dressing, continence and feeding. ADLs have also be ...

their scale (e.g. Stewart and Ware 1992). Furthermore, Fallowfield (1990) defined the four main dimensions of quality of life as ...

How should it be measured? Unidimensional measures Many measures focus on one particular aspect of health. For example, Goldberg ...

they have also been criticized for being too focused and for potentially missing out aspects of quality of life that may be of s ...

the evaluation of individual quality of life (SEIQoL). In addition, the authors wanted to compare the results using SEIQoL with ...

Conclusion The authors concluded that their individual quality of life measure can be used to elicit the views of patients and i ...

make this bias the essence of what they are interested in. For example, mortality data are taken from hospital records or death ...