TUESDAY, AUGUST 30th 2005
09.00-18.00
17.00-19.00
Executive Committee Meeting: Room AM109, Arts Millennium Building
REGISTRATION: Foyer, Arts Millennium Building
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31st 2005
09..00
09.00–12.00
12.30-13.00
Convenor/
Chair
REGISTRATION: Foyer, Arts Millennium Building
EHPS Publications Meeting: Room AM109, Arts Millennium Building
Lunch can be purchased in the restaurant, An Bhialann, either before or after the Opening Ceremony.
OPENING CEREMONY O’Flaherty Theatre, Arts/Science Concourse
Parallel Session A
Parallel Session B
Parallel Session C
Parallel Session D
Máirtín Ó Tnúthail Theatre
Patrick Fottrell Theatre
Colm Ó hEocha Theatre
D'Arcy Thompson
Arts Millennium Building
Arts Millennium Building
Arts Millennium Building
Theatre, Arts/Science
Concourse
A1: Symposium
B1: Symposium
C1: Symposium
D1: Symposium
Public attitudes to advances in
Putting TRA/TPB into context
Cardiovascular disease: from
Designing and testing
genomes in the UK
development to secondary
cognitive behavioural
prevention
interventions in health
psychology
Richard Shepherd
Diane Morrison/Charles
Molly Byrne
Rona Moss-Morris
Abraham
13.20
Attitudes of the general public
toward genomics
Richard Shepherd
13.40
Do people have an overall
attitude towards genomics:
differentiation of attitudes
according to type of application
Chris Fife-Schaw
14.00
14.20
In science we trust? The
influence of trust and
information presentation on
attitudes to gene patenting and
cloning
Victoria Senior
“You’ve taken something really
good and made it, you know,
monstrous”: Lay negotiations of
the permissibility of preimplantation genetic diagnosis.
Adrian Coyle
The sufficiency of the theory of
planned behaviour as a model
of adolescents’ decisions about
having sex
Diane Morrison
Social cognitive prerequisites
of planned and preparatory
actions in the context of
condom use among young
people
Pepijn van Empelen
Sequencing and prioritising of
intentions in planned behaviour
Charles Abraham
Hemodynamic reactivity and
ambulatory blood pressure in
men and women in response to
common “stressful” events
Jack E. James
Cardiac mortality in frequent
panic: neurochemical
abnormalities and their
modification
Ciaran Pier
Micro-interventions: the
use of real-time data and
personalized feedback to
augment interventions
Joshua M. Smyth
A new self-management
programme for irritable
bowel syndrome: does it
work and if so why?
Rona Moss-Morris
Secondary prevention of heart
disease in general practice:
impact of personal and practice
characteristics on patients’
lifestyles and service provision
Andrew Murphy
Implementation intention
intervention effects mediated
by action planning
Aleksandra Luszczynska
The SPHERE study:
Development of theoryinformed behaviour change
training for primary care staff to
increase secondary prevention
of coronary heart disease
Long versus short family
focused cognitive
behaviour therapy for
chronic fatigue syndrome
in 11-18 year olds: a
randomized controlled
trial
Trudie Chalder
Stress management
intervention for women
undergoing treatment for
breast cancer: effects of
psychosocial adjustment
and physiological
Parallel Session E
O’Flaherty Theatre,
Arts/Science Concourse
E1: Symposium
Synergy Pre-conference
Workshop: Overview
James Pennebaker
/Bernard Rimé/ Efi
Panagopoulou
Workshop Theme:
Emotional Processes and
Health: The Role Of
Emotional Disclosure
**This session will
overview conclusions of
Synergy workshop by
participants**
**This session will
overview conclusions of
Synergy workshop by
participants**
Modern health worries in
medical students
Ad Kaptein
Molly Byrne
Discussant
Anne Marie Plass
Discussant
Ralf Schwarzer
A2: Symposium
Psychosocial effects on
immunity: Individual, partner
and social processes
B2: Symposium
Stage models of health
behaviour change
Convenor/
Chair
Kavita Vedhara
Sonia Lippke/ Aleksandra
Luszczynska
Yael Benyamini
Hannah McGee
15.30
Stress management effects on
mood and immunity in HIV+
men: the role of social support
Mike Antoni
Stages of health behaviour:
introduction, overview and
current status
Stephen Sutton
Does the dissimilarity between
couple’s perceptions of
infertility predict stress and
distress following the failure of
IVF treatment?
Katrina Humphrey
Are perceptions of ageing
related to indices of health
status in older people?
Maja Barker
15.50
Chronic caregiver stress and
immunity
Kavita Vedhara
Social-cognitive predictors of
stage transition
Sonia Lippke
Perceptions of disability and
control in stroke couples and lay
respondents: associations with
carer wellbeing
Val Morrison
16.10
Psychosocial regulation of
immune susceptibility in
childhood: the role of maternal
stress, child temperament and
experience of transition to
school
Julie M Turner-Cobb
Psychosocial factors and
antibody response to influenza
vaccination in the young and
elderly.
Anna Philips
A match-mismatch test of a
stage model of behaviour
change in tobacco smoking
Arie Dijkstra
Illness representations in
families with an adolescent
suffering from psoriasis
Christel Salewski
Proactive investment in
the future in middle and
late adulthood: the
evaluation of an
intervention study
Christina Bode
Perceived changes in
friendships and their
impact on psychological
wellbeing
Kate M Bennett
Barriers for stage movement –
where haven’t we looked at?
Stefan Keller
The experience of
transplantation for patients and
their significant ones: A
difficult encounter of two
worlds
Chantal Piot-Ziegler
14.40
15:00- 15:30
16.30
Discussant
Liz Douglas
regulation
Mike Antoni
Discussant
Paul Bennett
COFFEE – An Bhialann Restaurant
C2: Symposium
Illness perceptions in the family
D2: Symposium
Perceptions, attitudes and
the experience of aging
Does age affect the
perceived importance of
sex to quality of life?
Merryn Gott
Injury representations,
coping, emotions and
functional outcomes in
athletes with sport
related injuries.
Martin Haager
E2: Symposium
Current issues of
adherence/self-care
behaviour in chronic
illness
Lynn Myers
Prevalence and
determinants of
adherence to
immunosuppressive
medication in renal
transplant recipients
Nadia Griva
How successful are
repressors at self-care
behaviour?
Lynn B Myers
Self-care behaviour in
heart failure patients:
Implications of illness
perceptions, disease
severity and time since
diagnosis.
Karen Grogan
Evaluation of a patientcentred, pharmacistdelivered intervention to
improve patient
adherence to medication
Sarah Clifford
16.50
Discussant
Doug Carroll
Discussant
Stephen Sutton
Patient and spouse
representations of the patient’s
heart disease and associations
with received and provided
social support and undermining
Yael Benyamini
Discussant
Simon Biggs
Discussant
Charles Abraham
Discussant John Weinman
17.15-18.15
18.15-19.30
19.30
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Shelley Taylor (UCLA, USA), O’Flaherty Theatre, Arts/Science Building
Why do people tend and befriend under stress? A biosocial approach.
Chair- Ruth Curtis [Conference President, EHPS, 2005]
Poster Discussion Sessions, Concourse, Arts/Science Building
RECEPTION: Hosted By An Tánaiste and Minister of Health and Children, Mary Harney TD, Foyer, Orbsen Building
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st 2005
Parallel Session A
Máirtín Ó Tnúthail Theatre
Arts Millennium Building
Parallel Session B
Patrick Fottrell Theatre
Arts Millennium Building
Parallel Session C
Colm Ó hEocha Theatre
Arts Millennium Building
A3: Symposium
Using think-aloud
methodologies to improve
health-related measurement
B3: Symposium
Quality of life implications
following childhood illness
and injury
C3: Symposium
Dyadic coping research: A
review and a preview
Convenor/
Chair
Richard Cooke
Christine Eiser
Nina Knoll
9.00
Think aloud interviewing: an
example of its application to
patient reported outcome
measures
Joanne Greenhalgh
From social support to dyadic
coping: More than a change of
perspective?
Ute Schulz
9.20
What do people think about
when they answer Theory of
Planned Behaviour
questionnaires? “A think aloud”
study.
Richard Cooke
‘It might happen or it might not’:
How patients with multiple
sclerosis explain their perception
of prognostic risk
Cecile Janssens
An exploratory study of the
cognitive, academic and
behavioural functioning of
paediatric cardiothoracic
transplant recipients
Cheryl L. Brosig
Long-term cognitive and
psychosocial functioning of
paediatric bone marrow
transplant patients
Mary J. Kupst
Psychosocial impact of
paediatric acquired brain
injury on children and their
families: A qualitative
investigation
Caroline Heary
Parental communication of
Improving the reporting of
couples interventions in health
psychology: Some data and a
plea
James Coyne
Reactive versus reasoned
processing: Proven
predictors of proximal
proxies?
Frederick Gibbons
Dyadic coping and support
A dual-process approach
9.40
10.00
Applying ‘think aloud’ to health-
Distress in couples coping with
cancer: An meta-analysis of role
and gender effects
Mariët Hagedoorn
Parallel Session D
D'Arcy Thompson
Theatre, Arts/Science
Concourse
D3: Symposium
Understanding unplanned
behaviour: Current
research on
prototype/willingness
model
Paschal Sheeran
Parallel Session E
O’Flaherty Theatre,
Arts/Science Concourse
Prototypes and adolescent
health behaviour:
Reasoned action, social
reaction and goal
contagion
Amanda Rivis
Assessing the impact of
binger drinker prototypes
within the theory of
planned behaviour
Paul Norman
Role of familial and
genetic factors in
behavioural change
Jaakko Kaprio
E3: Symposium
Behaviour change
intervention: Theories
and methods
Susan Michie/Antti
Utela
Using the interplay of
theory and practice to
develop a clinical
programme for health
behaviour change
Bernt Lindahl
Identifying effective
techniques: the example
of physical activity
Susan Michie
Controversies in guiding
10.20
related quality of life (HrQOL)
self-reports: comprehension,
judgement and question-induced
error
S.E.R. Stapley
Discussant
Denise de Ridder
illness information with newly
diagnosed children and
survivors of childhood cancer
Sally-Ann Clarke
processes
Anita DeLongis
to altering adolescent risk
behaviour: Changing
intentions and willingness
Meg Gerrard
Discussant
Christine Eiser
Discussant
Roeline Kuijer
Discussant
Paschal Sheeran
A4: Paper session
Parental influences on child and
adolescent health behaviours
B4: Paper session
Smoking: From legislation to
peer and family influences
[Sponsor: Department of
Health & Children]
Stan Maes
Using legislation to manage
smoking: Ireland’s experience
of the smoking ban
Emer Shelley
COFFEE – An Bhialann Restaurant
10.40-11.00
C4: Paper session
Individual differences in health:
Short and long-term influences
D4: Paper session
Evaluating health risk
from a community
perspective
E4: Paper session
Coping with cancer and
chronic pain
Christel Salewski
When it is better to give than to
receive: Long tern health effects
of perceived reciprocity in
support exchange
Jane Walsh
When do mum and dad
need their genes back?
Communicating
information about
genetics to children
Fiona Ulph
Factors affecting parental
decisions to immunise
their child with the
Measles, Mumps and
Rubella (MMR)
vaccination
Jane C. Walsh
Why and how do patients
inform blood relatives
about inherited high
cholesterol?
H. Van den Nieuwenhoff
Sofia Lopez-Roig
Cognitive-behavioural
model of chronic pain and
depression: A longitudinal
analysis
Patrik Kuusinen
Chair
11.00
Bettina Piko
Illness representations of
adolescents with chronic illness
and representations of the
adolescent’s illness by a parent.
Martin Dempster
11.20
The relations between parents’
smoking, general and smokingspecific parenting practices and
adolescents’ smoking
Zeena Harakeh
Framework Convention on
Tobacco Control (FCTC) –
could it be effective?
Rudolf Schoberberger
11.40
Impact of parents’ selfregulatory cognitions and
physical activity on their
children’s cognitions and
practice of physical activity
Vera Araújo-Soares
Correlates of fruit and vegetable
consumption among 11 year-old
Belgian-Flemish and Dutch
school children
Marianne Wind
Predictors of smoking
cessation and relapse in Dutch
adults
Ciska Hoving
Personal dispositions and
mortality
Nicholas Wainwright
Smokefree class competition
in Switzerland: Does it work
with negative peer pressure?
Holger Schmid
Two types of challenge appraisal
and their role in functioning of
patients with myocardial
infarction
Kazimierz Wrzesniewski
12.20
Impact of parental relationship
on young adults’ health
M Graca Pereira
Why adolescents start to
smoke: Peer influence versus
peer selection processes
Liesbeth AG Mercken
Health goal orientations and
diet: Predictions of intentions
and behaviours
Carina K. Y. Chan
12.40
Familial influences on sexual
behaviour of adolescents:
Parent-child communication
and adolescent smoking. The
Unrealistic optimism and reality
constraints: Being more
12.00
and evaluating health
behaviour change: Stage
models vs. continuum
models
Ralf Schwarzer
Discussant
Marie Johnston
Ari Vaananen
Self-esteem, social support and
health: Cross-lagged analyses
over a 6-year follow-up
Marja-Liisa Kinnunen
Use of focus group
techniques to inform the
development of a directly
observed therapy (DOT)
intervention in HIV-1
infected adolescents
Patricia A. Garvie
The effectiveness of
personal-relevance
information in increased
perceived risk of hepatitis
B infection among men
who have sex with men
Raymond de Vet
An intervention for
changing high-risk
Positive affect as a source
of resilience in the painnegative affect
relationship in patients
with rheumatoid arthritis
Elin B Strand
Do verbal-autonomic
response dissociations
mediate the relation
between avoidant coping
and pain perception?
Andreas Schwerdtfeger
Are the needs of cancer
patients and their carers
generic?
Fiona Zinovieff
Coping with breast cancer
in cyberspace:
understanding the role of
the online support group
Neil S. Coulson
Sociodemographic,
medical treatment and
Implications for health
promotion
Sonia Dias
13.00–
14.00
Convenor /
Chair
14.00
14.20
14.40
15.00
15.20
mediating effect of smoking
cognitions
Roy Otten
vulnerable but still invincible
Britta Renner
behaviours of inner-city
psychosocial correlates of
women: The role of
pain in scoliosis
personal resources
Darren Flynn
Evangelie Banou
LUNCH – packed lunch to be collected from An Bhialann
EHPS NATIONAL DELEGATES MEETING: AM108, Arts Millennium Building
EHPS Sub-Group in Occupational Health Psychology [meeting to discuss its formation] O Tnuathail theatre, Arts Millennium Building
A5: Symposium
B5: Paper Session
C5: Symposium
D5: Symposium
E5: Paper session
Global health and health
Smoking: predicting and
Dyadic coping with stress
Psychological aspects of
Qualitative studies in
psychology
intervening
screening for type 2
health psychology
[Sponsor: Department of
diabetes
Health & Children]
Mac MacLachlan
Steve Sutton
Falko F. Sniehotta
Wendy Hardeman &
Irina Todorova
Denise de Ridder
Towards a global health
Predicting intentions to quit
Distress contagion in couples
No harm done – results
An Evaluation of a
psychology
smoking: the TPB and
from the Hoorn screening Healthy Living Centre:
Niall Bolger
temporal construal
study.
Implications for evidence
M.MacLachlan
based health promotion
Jostein Rise
Frank Snoek
and the role of the health
psychologist
Ellen Mulholland
Training primary care nurses to
Smoking cessation guidance in Dyadic support processes in
Longer-term
Classifying health
conduct alcohol screening and
healthcare setting: adoption of couples undergoing in-vitro
psychological
behaviours:
brief interventions in South
minimal intervention
fertilization
consequences of early
Africa
strategies (MIS)
detection and treatment of Understanding how
Nina Knoll
individuals perceive
type-2 diabetes
Karl Peltzer
D. Segaar
health-related behaviours
Bart Thoolen
Rosemary McEachan
Health risk behaviours, health
Continuation of adolescent
Mobilisation of social support in Screening for type 2
An investigation into the
education needs and perspectives smoking after smoking
dyads: the effects of depression,
diabetes in general
experience of
towards public health services in experimentation
gender and the relationship type
practice: feasibility,
parents/guardians caring
rural South African communities Rinka van Zundert
uptake and effects of
for a young person with
Thomas Klauer
psychological health
Juvenile Huntington’s
Supa Pengpid
Disease: An interpretative
Simon Griffin
phenomenological
analysis.
Helen Brewer
Strengthening health systems in
Smoking cessation in COPD
What is the benefit of different
Patients’ experiences of
Children's voices:
Africa: Motivational aspects of
patients: 12-month results of
components of marital distress
screening for Type 2
qualitative data from a
human resources
the SMOKE study
prevention programs for couples diabetes: a qualitative
therapeutic recreation
in lowering their risk to become
study
programme for children
Eilish Mc Auliffe
Lieke Christenhusz
maritally distressed again?
with a chronic illness
Helen Eborall
Guy Bodenmann
Emma Meyler
Discussant
Cognitive predictors of GPs
Discussant
Discussant
Revelations from the
intentions to recommend
analysis of free-text
Diarmuid O’ Donovan
Ralf Schwarzer
Theresa Marteau
smoking cessation services to
responses in the lung
smokers that want to stop
information needs
smoking
questionnaire
Florian Vogt
Sam Harding
15.40 –
16.00
16.0017.00
17.00-18.00
COFFEE – An Bhialann Restaurant
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: James W. Pennebaker (U. Texas, USA) O’Flaherty Theatre, Arts/Science Concourse
Two decades of expressive writing and health: The current state of the field
Chair- Britta Renner [EHPS President Elect ]
POSTER DISCUSSION SESSION; Concourse, Arts/Science Building
17.45-18.45
RECEPTION: Celebration of Psychology & Health's 20th Anniversary and Launch of Health Psychology Review –
Hosted by publishers, Taylor & Francis. – Concourse, Arts/Science Building
19.00-20.15
EHPS MEMBERS MEETING, D’Arcy Thompson Theatre, Arts/Science Building
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND 2005
Parallel Session A
Máirtín Ó Tnúthail Theatre
Arts Millennium Building
Parallel Session B
Patrick Fottrell Theatre
Arts Millennium Building
Parallel Session C
Colm Ó hEocha Theatre
Arts Millennium Building
Parallel Session D
D'Arcy Thompson
Theatre, Arts/Science
Concourse
D6: Symposium
Selective optimization
with compensation:
Implications for
adaptation and health
self-regulation
Ann O’Hanlon
A6: Symposium
Community genetics
B6: Paper Session
Influences on exercise and
physical activity
C6: Symposium
Self-control: what is it and does
it help health behaviour?
Convenor/
Chair
9.00
Anne Marie Plass
Pilvikki Absetz
Roeline G. Kuijer
Preconceptional cystic fibrosis
carrier couple screening: impact
understanding and satisfaction
Lidewij Henneman
Promoting stair use: Single
versus multiple stair-riser
messages
Oliver J. Webb
Carrying on or giving in: The
role of (implicit) cognition in
self-control
Hugo Alberts
9.20
The need to facilitate informed
choice equitably
Elizabeth Dormandy
The relationship between selfdetermined motivation and
exercise-related affect
Geeta Vadgama
When does compunction help or
hinder self-control? The role of
guilt and shame proneness
Roger Giner-Sorolla
9.40
The effect of a genetics
information leaflet on public
attitudes towards genetic testing
Saskia Sanderson
Causal model of life-skills,
exercise and health condition
of college students
Kohei Shimamoto
Self-control in the face of
possible failure: Does reminding
of dieting goals help or hinder
resisting temptation and
planning?
Roeline Kuijer
Selection, optimization
and compensation in
health self-regulation:
Interplay with resources
and successful aging
Jochen P. Ziegelmann
Adaptation to the
demands of teaching:
psychological distress and
coping among trainee
teachers
Carrie Exton
10.00
BRCA1/2 mutation carriers:
The influence of choice of
Effects of a self-monitoring
Adaptation to chronic
Musculo-skeletal
Use of selective
optimization with
compensation (SOC)
adaptation strategies by
older people differing in
health status
Ann O’Hanlon
Stroke and wellbeing:
Implications of initial
stroke severity and
strategies of adaptation
Claire Donnellan
Parallel Session E
O’Flaherty Theatre,
Arts/Science Concourse
E6: Symposium
Stress and health in the
workplace
Katharine R. Parkes &
Rob Briner
Antecedents and
consequences of conflict
between work and home
life
Emma Hughes
Personality as a predictor
of employee absence
Sarah R. Owens & Rob
Briner
living with susceptibility
Lea Hagoel
10.20
Discussant
Theresa Marteau
exercise program on
motivation and study
completion - a self
determination perspective
Guida Scime
intervention on action control
and oral self-care behaviour
Falko Sniehotta
illness: Applying selective
optimization with
compensation to the
management of arthritis
disability at work
Monique A. Gignac
disorders among North
Sea personnel: Work
environment perceptions,
mental health and
individual characteristics
as predictors
Katharine R. Parkes
Behavioural specificity of
three types of self-efficacy for
exercise
W.M. Rodgers
Discussant
Denise de Ridder
Discussant
Peter Coleman
Discussant
Colin Mackay
COFFEE – An Bhialann Restaurant
10.40-11
A7: Paper Session
Social and cultural aspects of
health
B7: Paper Session
Quality of life in chronic
illness
C7: Paper Session
Illness perceptions and patient
coping
D7: Paper Session
Social cognition models
and health behaviours
E7: Paper Session
Qualitative studies of
patient and client
perceptions
Chair
11.00
Adriana Baban
Unrealistic optimism in
Germany and Korea:
Comparable risk perception but
different comparison standards?
Martina Panzer
Pio Rici Bitti
Functional outcome following
liver transplantation.
Ronan O’Carroll
AnnMarie Groarke
Do illness perceptions predict
attendance at cardiac
rehabilitation and quality of life
following myocardial infarction?
David P. French
11.20
Cultural variations in illness
perceptions: How lay individuals
from different ethnic
backgrounds understand stress
and illness
Katja Rüdell
Psychological determinants of
quality of life in chronic heart
failure
O.R.F. Smith
Modelling the influence of
illness representations on
adherence in asthma
Jodie Main
Winnie Gebhardt
Psychosocial mediators of
forward transition in
stages of physical activity
change in an adult
community population
Catherine Lorenzen
Do the transtheoretical
processes of change
predict transitions in
stages of change for fruit
intake
Emely De Vet
11.40
Understanding barriers to
cervical cancer screening among
Romanian women
Adriana Baban
Does subjective aging reflect a
change in quality of life?
Sonja Boehmer
Changes in self-efficacy, coping
and emotions: Their associations
among rheumatoid arthritis
patients participating in routine
self-management programmes
Rob Lowe
Exploring discontinuity
patterns in the
transtheoretical model:
exercise and fruit and
vegetable consumption
Veronika Stroebl
12.00
Women’s responsibility for
cervical cancer screening in
Bulgaria: Providers’ perceptions
Irina Todorova
Coping styles and quality of
life among asthmatic
adolescents: the role of
severity and gender
Monique O.M. van de Ven
Stage-specific effects of
action control on regular
preventive dental health
behaviour
Benjamin Schüz
12.20
Psychsocial aspects of general
practitioner consultation among
different ethnic groups in
Lasting impressions: influence
of the initial hospital
consultation for chronic pelvic
Using the self-regulatory model
to determine psychological
predictors of prosthetic use and
function following lower limb
amputation
Brian Callaghan
Illness perceptions and outcome
in patients with chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease
Jonathan Smith
Moving from one world
to another : A model for
describing processes
leading to the ‘illness
world’
Marie Santiago
Living with Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome:
Diagnosis and the
Consequential Experience
of Stigma and
Delegitimation.
Adele Dickson
Pain as an assault on the
self: an interpretative
phenomenological
analysis of the
psychological impact of
chronic benign back pain
Jonathan A Smith
Attitudes towards and
beliefs about falls
prevention interventions
in 7 European countries:
A framework analysis
Felicity Bishop
Language Use and
Affective States in
Adolescents
Adoption and
maintenance of an
outpatient cardiac
Germany
Ulla Wittig
12.40
13.00 –14.00
Convenor /
Chair
14.00
14.20
14.40
15.00
15.20
pain on dimensions of patient
(COPD)
rehabilitation programme
Andrea Horn
satisfaction at follow-up
M. Scharloo
Birte Dohnke
Wendy T. Lawrence
How do African-Americans
Development and evaluation
An exploration of illness beliefs, Changes in HAPA –
The psychosocial impact
view cultural competence in
of acceptance and
coping style and selfmodel constructs predict
of acne: an altered
patient-physician interactions?
commitment therapy for the
management behaviours in
type 2 diabetes risk factor appearance during
treatment of refractory
patient with type 2 diabetes
reduction in lifestyle
adolescence
Kerth O’Brien
epilepsy in South Africa and
counselling
Aidan Searle
Melissa Wallace
India.
Pilvikki Absetz
Tobias Lundgren
LUNCH: packed lunch to be collected from An Bhialann
FIRST MEETING: Qualitative research interest group (Chair: Irina Todorova)
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION: Evidence based service development in occupational health psychology (Chair: Barbara Wren)
A8: Symposium
B8: Symposium
C 8: Symposium
D8: Paper Session
E8: Paper Session
Changing patients’ perceptions
Quality of life – improving
Men’s health
Relationships and health
Verbal and written
to improve health outcomes
conceptual clarity
across the lifespan
influences on health
behaviours
Keith Petrie
Anne Hickey
M. Sieverding/G. Weidner
Jan Vinck
Derek Johnston
Improving reassurance in
patients following negative
stress exercise test results
Tobias Muller
Understanding an illness
perceptions based approach for
improving end stage renal
disease (ESRD) patients’
understanding of and adherence
to phosphate binding medication
C. Karamanidou
An intervention to modify
patients’ beliefs about
maintenance therapy and
improve adherence to
medication
Rob Horne
Improving recovery following
heart attacks by changing illness
perceptions: A randomized trial
Keith J. Petrie
Discussant
Yael Benyamani
Individual quality of life:
relationship with
psychological and subjective
wellbeing
Anne Hickey
The SEIQoL-DW’s
relationship with positive and
negative affect in healthy
older females
Hanne Bruhn
Gender differences in coping
styles and physical symptom
report
Heike Eschenbeck
Illness perceptions and quality
of life in neurological illness:
comparing amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis and multiple sclerosis
populations
Lorna O’Doherty
Changes in individual qualify
of life of advanced cancer
patients admitted to a
palliative care unit
Michael A. Echteld
Psychological barriers to cancer
screening in German men
Monika Sieverding
Using the demand-control
model of job strain to
predict caregiver burden:
A longitudinal study
Gerry J Molloy
Can lifestyle changes affect the
progression of prostrate cancer?
Results from the prostrate cancer
lifestyle trial
Gerdi Weidner
Predictors of successful
and unsuccessful efforts,
intentions and reluctance
to health behaviour
change among middleaged and older individuals
H. Heinonen
Asking questions changes
behaviour: The meremeasurement effect in the
field of blood donation
Gaston Godin
Do couples facing
multiple sclerosis benefit
from supportive
interactions? A diary
study using an equity
perspective
Annet M. Kleiboer
Written emotional
disclosure, alexithymia
and stress reactivity: Does
it matter who you are or
what you write?
Daryl B O’Connor
Is brochure information
effective in encouraging
increased risk perception
and screening behaviour
for type 2 diabetes in
high-risk groups?
M. Clark
Discussant
Ciaran O’Boyle
Discussant
Claus Voegele/V. Cain
Does age make a
difference? Structural
differences in the effect of
social cognitive variables
The development of a
resource pack to assist
practice nurses in
promoting uptake and
maintenance of dietary
The influence of culture on
men’s expression of bodily
complaints and illness-related
behaviour
Martin Merbach
The relationship between
wellness and supportive
relationships across the
lifespan
Nikos Thomacos
Including family
members in type 2
diabetes research: A
qualitative and
quantitative approach
Patricia White
on physical activity
Youlia Spivak
COFFEE – An Bhialann Restaurant
15.40 –16.00
16.00- 17.00
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Jack E. James (NUI Galway, Ireland) O’Flaherty Theatre, Arts/Science Building
Does Health Psychology have a future? Effectiveness, integration and focus
Chair- Susan Michie.[President, EHPS]
17.00– 18.00
POSTER DISCUSSION SESSIONS; Concourse, Arts/Science Building
19.30
self-care behaviours
Rachel Povey
CONFERENCE DINNER . Welcome drink hosted by Dept. of Psychology, NUI, Galway, Corrib Room / University Bar , Áras na MacLéinn
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3rd 2005
Parallel Session A
Máirtín Ó Tnúthail Theatre
Arts Millennium Building
Parallel Session B
Patrick Fottrell Theatre
Arts Millennium Building
Parallel Session C
Colm Ó hEocha Theatre
Arts Millennium Building
A9: Paper Session
Individual differences in
patient outcomes
B9: Paper Session
Psychological influences on
cardiovascular outcomes
C9: Paper Session
Sexual health behaviour: From
explanation to intervention
Chair
David Ingledew
Kazimiewrz Wrzesniewski
9.00
Gender differences in illness
representations of stroke
patients
Sara Joice
Hostility and cardiovascular risk
in the NHLBI family heart study
Sarah S Knox
9.20
9.40
10.00
Humiliation and impairment of
health-related quality of life as
consequences of weightteasing in obesity patients
Daniela Kovacs
Illness perceptions, pain and
function in patients with low
back pain: A prospective study
Sarah Dean
Irritability and anxiety predict
long-term mortality in patients
with myocardial infarction
Franco Bonaguidi
The impact of dispositional
optimism on the emotional
The role of illness perceptions,
coping mechanisms and
Type D personality and diabetes
predict the onset of depressive
symptoms in patients following
percutaneous coronary
intervention
Susanne S. Pedersen
Parallel Session D
D'Arcy Thompson
Theatre, Arts/Science
Concourse
D9: Paper Session
Applications of the theory
of planned behaviour
(TPB)
Parallel Session E
O’Flaherty Theatre,
Arts/Science Concourse
Roger Ingham
Paul Norman
David French
Sexual behaviour among
adolescents: family, school and
societal factors that promote
sexual health
Margaret Rosario
Predictors of smoking
onset in asthmatic and
non-asthmatic
adolescents: an extension
of the theory of planned
behaviour
Regina J. van den
Eijnden
Perceived behavioural
control and activity
limitations in patients
with poly-neuropathy
Carin Schröder
Predicting fitness and
activity in congestive
heart failure: application
of the theory of planned
behaviour in RCT of
exercise
Chuan Gao
Content validity of
perceived behavioural
Risk profiles for serious
illnesses in healthy
individuals;implications
for preventive measures
Effects of area and family
deprivation on risk factors for
teenage pregnancy among 13-15
year old girls
Debbie M. Smith
Cognitive planning, motives for
having sex and female
adolescent condom use with a
new partner
Winifred A. Gebhardt
Unsafe sex with casual partners
and quality of life among HIV-
E9: Paper Session
The stress of illness:
From risk to management
Mario Josa Gigueires
Feeling at risk for familial
breast cancer: how
accurate is an accurate
risk perception?
Sandra van Dijk
Predicting emotional
responses to cancer
genetic risk assessment
Paul Bennett
Attitudes about genetic
testing for thrombophilia
consequences of receiving
DNA test results for hereditary
breast cancer
Wilma Otten
personality variables in
adjustment in cardiac patients
Anne Lavelle
infected homosexual men
Marie Préau
10.20
How well do patients treated
for cancer of the head region
adapt long-term? A crosssectional comparison study of
levels of cognitive and
emotional wellbeing.
Carrie D Lewellyn
Sex differences in psychosocial
predictors of depressive mood
upon entry into a cardiac
rehabilitation programme
Lea A Carlyle
A self-help approach to promote
sexual health among HIVpositive MSM
N.M.C. van Kesteren
10.40
Patient reported outcomes as
unique indicators of
rehabilitation efficacy in the
field of mobility disturbances
Corinna T. Fritz
Changes in psychological states
during cardiac rehabilitation:
does initial level of distress
matter?
David Hevey
Outcome evaluation of a sex
education intervention for high
risk Portuguese women
Elenora Veiga - Costa
11.00 – 11.30
11.30 – 12.30
12.30-13.00
control measures: the
impact on the predictive
power of the theory of
planned behaviour
Diane Dixon
Changing normativelydriven intentions to
attitudinally-driven
intentions: explaining
effects of an RCT to
implement evidencebased diabetes care
Jill Francis
Do trained intervention
facilitators use theorybased behaviour change
techniques? Results from
the Pro-Active fidelity
project
Wendy Hardeman
COFFEE – An Bhialann Restaurant
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Marie Johnston ( U. Aberdeen, Scotland) O’Flaherty Theatre, Arts/Science Building
“Why can’t they…?” “Why don’t they…?” Using theory to investigate behavioural limitations of patients and healthcare professionals
Chair – Teresa McIntyre [Immediate Past President, EHPS]
CLOSING CEREMONY O’Flaherty Theatre, Arts/Science Building
in a large family with
heritable protein C
deficiency
Inez M van Korlaar
Adjustment to cancer in
the eight years following
the diagnosis: a
longitudinal study
comparing cancer
survivors with healthy
individuals
Maya Schroevers
Coping with stressful
situations: do optimists
receive more social
support?
Manja Vollmann