Health Psychology : a Textbook

following an assessment of the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register from 1980 to 1997, Sanders et al. (1998) reported that althou ...

outcome measure. They examined the relative effectiveness of home versus hospital care for patients with a range of problems, in ...

measures of subjective health status and quality of life. It has then described how the shift from mortality rates to quality of ...

FURTHER READING ➧ Bowling, A. (1991) Measuring Health: A Review of Quality of Life Measurement Scales. Buckingham: Open Universi ...

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17 The assumptions of health psychology CHAPTER OVERVIEW This book has highlighted a range of assumptions within health psycholo ...

THE ASSUMPTIONS OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY Throughout this book, several assumptions central to health psychology have been highlighte ...

are more accurate. However, perhaps such changes indicate different, not better, ways of viewing the world. Perhaps these theori ...

Data are collected in order to develop theories; these theories are not data Health psychologists collect data and develop theor ...

FURTHER READING ➧ Ogden, J. (1995b) Changing the subject of health psychology, Psychology and Health, 10: 257–65. This paper add ...

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METHODOLOGY GLOSSARY Between-subjects design: this involves making comparisons between different groups of subjects; for example ...

generalizations are made about the population as a whole. Quantitative data are described in terms of frequencies, means and sta ...

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