Health Psychology : a Textbook

no good or not being needed (personal probability of benefit). Therefore, although the actual risk of the treatment was the same ...

recommended patient centredness as the preferred style of doctor–patient communica- tion as a means to improve patient outcomes ...

consultation involved agreement with the patient about the nature of the problem, the action to be taken and subsequent manageme ...

more expectations met was related to a higher level of satisfaction with the consultation. However, this study did not explore c ...

ASSUMPTIONS IN HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY Some of the research cited in this chapter illustrates the kinds of assumptions that underlie t ...

➧ Marteau, T.M. and Johnston, M. (1990) Health professionals: a source of variance in health outcomes, Psychology and Health, 5: ...

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5 Smoking and alcohol use CHAPTER OVERVIEW This chapter examines the prevalence of smoking and alcohol consumption and evaluates ...

WHO SMOKES? Data from the 1992 General Household Survey in the UK showed that 28 per cent of people aged 16 and over were smoker ...

Two-thirds of smokers report wanting to give up smoking.
The majority of smokers (58 per cent) say that it would be fairly/v ...

who stated that of 1000 20-year-olds in the UK who smoke cigarettes regularly about one will be murdered, six will die from traf ...

Positive effects Alcohol may also have a positive effect on health. In a longitudinal study, Friedman and Kimball (1986) reporte ...

What causes someone to start smoking?
What causes drinking behaviour to become a problem?
Why can some people just smoke s ...

The nineteenth century and the 1st disease concept During the nineteenth century, attitudes towards addictions and, in particula ...

Therefore, over the past 300 years there have been shifts in attitudes towards addictions and addictive behaviours that are refl ...

alcoholism has been more extensive and reviews of this literature can be found elsewhere (Peele 1984; Schuckit 1985). However, i ...

the central ideas of the disease model. The phenomenon of controlled drinking indicated that perhaps an addiction was not irreve ...

What factors can pair with the conditioned stimulus? Two types of factor can pair with the conditioned stimulus: external (e.g. ...

tolerance may be a disease model concept but it relies upon some degree of social learning theory for it to operate. Likewise, p ...

them are aware of the related health risks. In fact, research exploring whether smokers appreciate the risks of smoking in compa ...