EHPS Poster Presentation Timetable
Discussants to be confirmed
Wednesday August 31st
Venue: Concourse, Arts/Science Building, NUI, Galway
18.15-19.30
Session 1 - Blood and organ donation: influences
1.1
Encouraging organ donation in the antipodes: the impact of a high profile “celebrity” organ donation on
organ donation registration in Australia
Margaret Hay
1.2
Determinants of blood donation intentions among working young adults
Karen Lemmens
1.3
Organ donation attitudes and intentions to donate amongst Asians and Caucasians
Olga van den Akker
1.4
Blood donation: a test of the Theory of Planned Behaviour
John Mallett
1.5
Stimulating organ donation: the role of empathic cues
Gundula Huebner
Session 2 - Pregnancy-related psychological challenges
2.1
The role of stress and emotional disclosure in predicting the outcome of IVF treatment
Efharis Panagopoulou
2.2
Emotional disclosure, emotional secrecy and psychosocial adjustment in women undergoing in vitro
fertilization treatment
Chrysoula Gaintartzi
2.3
Defense mechanisms in infertile couples
V.A.Melo
2.4
Does prenatal screening influence anxiety levels of pregnant women? A longitudinal randomised controlled
trial
Johanna H. Kleinveld,
2.5
Reproductive decision among HIV-infected women: preliminary results
Pereira Marco
Session 3 - Work: personal and organisational influences
3.1
Person-organization fit: value congruence and the impact on global job satisfaction and psychological wellbeing
Stefaan De Clercq
3.2
Organizational politics, illegitimate demands, and well-being among managers
Viviane Gisler
3.3
A cross-cultural study of emotional awareness and negotiation behaviour
Tsungting Chung,
3.4
Sense of coherence in an extremely hazardous occupation
DJW Strümpfer
3.5
Safety training, occupational risk perception and injuries prevention
P. Argentero
3.6
Exposure to worksite wellness-health interventions: effects on job characteristics and employee health and
wellbeing
Chris Verhoeven
Session 4 - Sexual health Issues:
4.1
The inclusion of condoms in sexual scripts
Maria João Alvarez
4.2
Safe sex in young people non attending school: attitude towards risk and information about AIDS
P. Moscardi
4.3
Sexual behaviour and contraception among younger: can we do anything else to improve sexual education
among younger females?
Jose Joaquin Mira
4.4
Physical, sexual and attitudinal correlates of circumcision among Somalian women living in London
James Walsh
4.5
Women’s and providers’ voices on cervical cancer prevention: conflicting or complementary?
Anna Alexandrova
Session 5 - Cancer – beliefs and emotions
5.1
Emotional responses to living at increased risk of breast cancer
Kate Brain
5.2
The role of appraisals and core relational themes in predicting emotional responses to cancer genetic risk
assessment
Ceri Phelps
5.3
A qualitative analysis of free-text comments from questionnaires investigating the psychological impact of
undergoing cancer genetic risk assessment
Ceri Phelps
5.4
The impact of expressive writing on cancer patients
Eva Kallay
5.5
The impact of irrational beliefs in cancer
Aurora Szentagotai
5.6
Non-melanoma skin cancer: outdoor workers' perceptions of risk and use of sunscreen
Judith McCool
Session 6 - Social Support:
6.1
Received social support enhances patients’ active and accommodative coping within the year following cancer
surgery
Nihal Mohamed
6.2
Family support decreasing psychosocial vulnerability
Piroska Balog
6.3
The impact of psychological stress and social support on wound healing immune factors following breast
surgery
Patricia Loft
6.4
Social support as a mediator in the relationship between illness perception and adherence to disease regimens
Mih Viorel-Beniamin
6.5
Impact of social support on the Adolescent Duke Health Profile: construct validity examined
René Demerval
6.6
Methodological issues in the assessment of social support
Matthew Lowe
Session 7 - Family and Health
7.1
Illness representation as a predictor of psychological distress in parents of pediatric cancer patients
Edit Molnar
7.2
Leisure, coping and health: the role of social, family, school and peer relationship factors
Tony Cassidy
7.3
Representation of the interpersonal relationships in the parents of adolescents with anorexia nervosa or with
substance abuse disorders
Jean Louis Nandrino
7.4
Attachment styles family environment parental attitudes towards ‘launching’ as contributing factors to soldiers
in training
Zipora Gill-Lev Irit Hochdorf
7.5
Psychosocial pathways mediating the relationship between family environment and quality of life in adolescents
with asthma
Jacqueline Cesareo
Session 8 - Quality of Life
8.1
Subjective constructions of health-related quality of life using Q methodology
Saulo Sirgatti
8.2
Quality of life and cardiac rehabilitation
Julian Bath
8.3
Quality of life in adult hematopoietic cell transplant patients at least five years after treatment: a comparison
with healthy controls
Martin Kopp
8.4
Sense of coherence (SOC) and other psychological resources vs. quality of life in patients with rheumatoid
arthritis
Barbara Mroziak
8.5
Time perspective orientation and health related quality of life among HIV infected patients
Marie Preau
8.6
Physician findings/ patients ratings and health related quality of life
Costas Papadopoulos
Session 9 - Health Perceptions
9.1
Predictors and consequences of health behaviour enhancing the individual lifestyle
Helena Sek
9.2
Health risks/protective factors in life-trajectories of adult subjects followed-up from the birth: a longitudinal
study
M Havlinova,
9.3
Determinants of self-reported health in two Czech studies
Iva Solcova
9.4
Self-responsibility perceptions related to health behaviours of university students
Nurgül Mutlu
9.5
“As I get older, I”…aging stereotypes mediate relationship between neuroticism and subjective health
Caroline Moor
Session 10 - Psychological factors and cardiac outcomes – 1
10.1
Relationships between illness perception, anxiety and depression in cardiac rehabilitation patients
Massimo Miglioretti
10.2
Gender differences in physical activity after cardiac rehabilitation
Birte Dohnke
10.3
Gender differences in psychosocial predictors of depressive mood upon entry in to a cardiac rehabilitation
program
Lea Carlyle
10.4
Evaluating the efficacy of a psychological multimodal intervention in the rehabilitation of Portuguese postmyocardial infarction patients
Ana Fernandes
10.5
Examining the relationship between alexithymia and coronary risk factors in cardiac rehab patients
Laura Brennan
10.6
Improvement in health-related quality of life is a protective factor for major adverse cardiac events post
percutaneous coronary intervention
Elisabeth Martens
Session 11 - Suicide
11.1
Opinions about depression and attitudes towards suicidal behaviour among the general public and general
practitioners
M.Moore-Corry
11.2
Adolescent: the relationship between illness, suicidality and substance use
Gebhard Huesler
11.3
Changes of self-damaging behaviour through school years related to social values
Antanas Gostautas
11.4
A school-based parent program to reduce youth suicide risk factors
Elizabeth Douglas Gregg
Session 12 - Self-efficacy
12.1
Plan-execution self-efficacy and mastery of action plans: dynamics in health-behavior change
Urte Scholz
12.2
The effects of implementation intentions on exercise self-efficacy and behavior
Terra Murray
12.3
Analysis system for self-efficacy training
Katarzyna Michalowska-Zinken
12.4
Self-efficacy to quit smoking in psychiatric patients and their care-takers – wherein lies the difference?
Jeroen Meganck
12.5
Comparison of written vs. verbal oral hygiene instruction: effects on self-efficacy and gingivitis
Nicole Granrath
Session 13 - Social cognition and Physical activity
13.1
Tackling problems in scoring and scaling the Functional Limitation Profile using Item Response Theory
Jeanette Winter
13.2
Relationship of forming specific implementation intentions to attitudes and adherence to exercise therapy
Maggie Donovan-Hall
13.3
Self-determined motivational regulations as predictors of exercise behaviour and affect among obese
individuals referred to an exercise on prescription scheme.
Jemma Edmunds
Session 14 - Meaning of illness
14.1
Psychometric properties of the post-traumatic growth inventory in Dutch cancer patients
Tessa Jaarsma
14.2
Impact of educational and professional status on women’s subjective meanings about breast cancer: an
exploratory study
Fernando Fradique
14.3
Patient experience of neurological rehabilitation
Helen Wain
14.4
Adaptation to hemato-oncological illness: anxiety increases six months after diagnosis
Sara Ulla,
14.5
Cognitive emotion regulation, goal disturbance and psychological distress in people infected with HIV
Vivian Kraaij
14.6
Coping through humour – vignette based study on the emotion-regulating function of humour
Fay Geisler
Session 15 - Volunteers & self-help groups
15.1
Social comparison and coping in self-help groups: effects on psychological well being
Elvira Cicognani
15.2
Alexithymia and panic disorder trends while attending self-help groups: a longitudinal study on 21 subjects
Federica Sancassiani
15.3
Are there differences in social comparison dimensions between chronic patients attending hospital settings and
associations?
Marie-Carmen Neipp López
15.4
The effectiveness of migraine lay trainers in a behavioral management group intervention: preliminary results
of a randomized controlled trial
S.Y.M. Merelle
15.5
Benefits and challenges: The experience of volunteers working in the provision of health and social care
services
Cliona Carey
Session 16 - Driving safely: psychological influences
16.1
Young adults who drink and drive: motivators and mediators of intended and actual avoidance of drink driving
Elissavet Liourta,
16.2
To drink and to drive: the passenger’s perspective
Cristina Stefanile
16.3
Aberrant driving behaviors: antecedents of errors and violations in a sample of Italian drivers
Elvira Cicognani
Session 17 - Occupational health
17.1
Assessment of occupational health risk among Greek telecommunication employees
Lambros Lazuras
17.2
Construction and validation of a new mobbing self perception scale
P.Argentero
17.3
Italian adaptation of the Negative Act Questionnaire Revised (NAQR). Correlations with Q.A.M. 1.5
Questionnaire
V. Majer
17.4
Reliability and dimensionality of an Occupational Coping Self-Efficacy Questionnaire for Nurses (OCSE-N)
Renato Pisanti
Thursday, September 1st, 2005
Venue: Concourse, Arts/Science Building, NUI, Galway
17.00-18.00
Session 1 – Adherence
1.1
Behavioural factors determining low adherence in tuberculosis patients
Ovidiu Popa Velea
1.2
Social and psychological variables significant of the compliance of HIV patients
Ms.Gauchet
1.3
Health beliefs and prescription medication compliance among diagnosed hypertension clinic attendees in a
rural South African hospital
Karl Peltzer
1.4
Adherence to treatment and wellbeing in renal transplanted patients
Pio Enrico ricci Bitti
1.5
Psychological interventions to improve adherence to oral hygiene instructions in adults with periodontal
disease - a systematic review
Anna Renz
1.6
Adherence in paediatric care: process of adherence in mothers of children with special health needs
Margarida Santos
Session 2 - Risk Perceptions
2.1
The prototype-willingness model as a theoretical framework for health risk behaviour: applicability to adults
and accommodation of multiple needs
John BF de Wit
2.2
Using comparison scenarios to increase risk comprehension
Lucia Savadori
2.3
The need for risk or variety? relationships between sensation seeking, risk perception, high risk sports and
behaviours
Emma Cooke
2.4
Knowledge and attitudes towards genetic testing, a two-year follow-up study in patients with asthma, diabetes
mellitus and cardiovascular disease
Hiske Calsbeek
Session 3 - Studying health professional activity to improve health care
3.1
The influence of illness script components on physicians’ referral behaviour
Paul van Schaik
3.2
Patients on long-term home total parenteral nutrition (HPN): the ability of physicians to identify distress and
the utility of a single question
Donal Fortune
3.3
Investigating the training needs of health professionals caring for burns patients: differences between physical
vs. psychosocial aspects of rehabilitation
Jeanne Reeve
3.4
Health care employees communication skills: are there differences between self-evaluation and patients’
evaluation?
Marinella Sommaruga
3.5
Analysis of co-production at the hospital: development of an instrument to analyse conditions for active
participation of patients
Kerstin Rieder
Session 4 - Caregivers: their experience of illness
4.1
Overstretched? The effect of multiple roles on informal carers
Pauline Banks
4.2
Spouse adjustment to stroke: depressive versus nondepressive partners
Gabriele Wilz
4.3
Stress and psychological well-being in informal caregivers of individuals with fronto-temporal dementia
Matt Bristow
4.4
Mental health of caregivers to parents: the effects of self-coping, social support, and perceptions of parent
Hasida Ben-Zur
4.5
Supporting carers - evaluation of a rural service
Mary Rose Day
4.6
Caring for the COPD patient: what makes it difficult?
Monique Heijmans
Session 5 – Pain
5.1
Quality of life and chronic pain: analyses and intervention perspectives
Federica Sancassiani
5.2
Locus of control, coping, perception of the pain and quality of life at the chronic low back pain patients before
and after a back school
Aurelie Duveau
5.3
Personality as predictor of anxiety and depression in chronic pain patients
Sandrine Irachabal
5.4
Chronic pain and psychosocial correlates: is there anything to do with its site?
Katalin Ress Craciun Catrinel
5.5
Distinguishing different types of pain beliefs as a predictor of return to work following an episode of low back
pain
Wendy Wrapson
Session 6 - Stress in the work setting
6.1
Occupational stress in teaching - a review and directions for further research
Chris Gibbons
6.2
Pre-service education and teacher burnout
Richard Goddard
6.3
The content and effect of workload and burnout–a study of tourism industry in Taiwan
Yi-ling Lee
6.4
Post industry out-transmission distress: occupational stressors, stress consequences, and stress management
among employees of manufacturing industries in Taiwan
Chen Chin-Yi
6.5
Bullying at work and organizational climate: a study in Portuguese workers
Manuel Salvador Araújo
6.6
The effects of work rumination on self-reported sleep time and sleep quality in a sample of Italian workers.
Mark Cropley
Session 7 - Emotional disclosure
7.1
Emotional disclosure through writing and well-being: an analysis of modality.
Katie Cutts
7.2
The role of positive expectancies in written emotional expression
Thomas A. Langens
7.3
Can the guided disclosure protocol increase sense of coherence?
Emily Arden-Close
7.4
Expressive writing and psychological health: an examination of the role of alexithymia
Laura Ashley
7.5
Effects on glycaemic control of pennebaker’s writing technique
Rosa Pastena
7.6
Emotions disclosure and health: a tutor’s perspective
Lorraine McFarland
Session 8 - Defining positive aspects of psychological function
8.1
The conceptual structure of subjective well-being
Vitor Bertoquini
8.2
Personality, subjective well-being, life satisfaction and happiness: a facet analysis
Vitor Bertoquini
8.3
When it is better to give than to receive: long-term health effects of perceived reciprocity in support exchange
Ari Väänänen
8.4
Resourcefulness in various psychopathological conditions
Marek Celinski
8.5
The effect of an autonomy supportive teaching style on exercise class participants’ behaviour and affect.
Jemma K Edmunds
Session 9 - Cancer – care and support needs
9.1
Couples coping with a recent diagnosis of cancer-pilot results
Alfred Kuenzler
9.2
Coping and social comparison processes in patients with cancer and fibromyalgia.
M.C. Terol
9.3
Integral mapping of care giving to oncological palliative patients by doctors and nurses
Suzanne Pietersma
9.4
Differences in the care and support needs of women with breast cancer related lymphoedema
Margaret Hay
9.5
The development and implementation of the Australian clinical practice guidelines for the psychosocial care of
adults with cancer
Jane Fletcher
9.6
Using comparative data to improve services: a qualitative study of four cancer networks
Dawn Wilkinson
Session 10 - Body image and psychological health in different cultural groups
10.1
Positive body image in adolescent girls
K. Lunner
10.2
Focus on body and weight among indigenous Australian adolescents
M. P. McCabe,
10.3
Obesity and psychological health in women
S. Stattin
10.4
The role of culture in the construction of male body and self image
L.A. Ricciardelli
Session 11 - Adolescents and substance use
11.1
An international look at the overestimation of peer substance use
Maman T. Lederman
11.2
From negative mood to substance use
Plancherel Bernard
11.3
A study of the relationship between sensation seeking and the substance abuse attitude among high school
students
Soltan Ali Kazemi
11.4
Trajectories of depression and cannabis consumption on youths at risk
Werlen Egon
11.5
Eye movements and psycho-social determinants in response to an anti-alcohol campaign
Jill Whittingham
11.6
Modulus “students to students” as drug prevention measure
Ina Pilkauskiene
Session 12 - Parents, teachers and child health
12.1
Relationship between junior schoolchildren smoking initiation and psychological adjustment
Antanas Gostautas
12.2
Smoking water pipe: are educators and parents more lenient towards it than towards cigarettes?
Efrat Neter
12.3
Klasse2000 – factors influencing coverage of a substance abuse prevention curriculum in elementary schools
Christina Storck
12.4
Promotion of wellness in deaf children: what parents say to do help their child
Ms Beaulen
12.5
Psychological adaptation to paediatric asthma
Iigia Lima
12.6
Developing a dedicated service to infant mental health
Rochelle Matacz
Session 13 - Illness perceptions – 1
13.1
The relationship between illness perceptions, anxiety and panic in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Claire Hallas
13.2
Anxiety, depression, coping and the personal model of illness in patients with intestinal failure on
home parenteral nutrition (HPN)
Donal Fortune
13.3
Individuals’ experience of chronic fatigue syndrome: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
Megan Arroll
13.4
Unravelling the mystery: the role of illness perceptions and coping in fibromyalgia syndrome
Alice Theadom
13.5
Illness perception in neurological chronic diseases
Simonetta D’Alisa
Session 14 - Illness perceptions – 2
14.1
An existential model of one’s world view of health and world view of illness
Marie Santiago
14.2
Illness representation, wellbeing and adherence to diet in adult celiac patients
Paola Gremigni
14.3
Evaluating follow-up care for adult survivors of childhood cancer: the influence of different models of care and
illness perceptions
Kate Absolom
14.4
Do illness perceptions predict emotional and physical functioning in primary care patients? a two years followup study
Lisbeth Frostholm
14.5
Cluster analysis in illness perceptions research: a Monte Carlo study to identify the most appropriate method
Jane Clatworthy
Session 15 - Psychological factors and cardiac outcomes –2
15.1
Short-form depression scales predict mortality in patients with acute coronary syndrome
Frank Doyle
15.2
Increased size of patients' drawings of the heart during recovery from myocardial infarction predicts cardiac
anxiety and poor functional outcomes
Elizabeth Broadbent
15.3
Increased risk of mortality or myocardial infarction 2 years post-PCI in type D patients treated with sirolimuseluting stents
Susanne S. Pedersen
15.4
Illness and health recovery - experiences of patients with supraventricular tachycardia and atrial fibrillation
treated with ablation
Agnieszka Maryniak
Session 16 - Obesity – 1
16.1
Predictors of disordered eating among Turkish university student.
Sumer Zeynep
16.2
Eating as an attempt to compensate for impaired ability to deal with negative emotions
Paul van der Heijden
16.3
The relationship between physical self-discrepanices on fatness and muscularity to physical self-concept in men
Christina Loitz
16.4
Gender differences in weight loss behaviour and beliefs in ethnic minority adolescents
S. Bakhshi
16.5
A health assessment tool for multiple risk factors for obesity: results from a pilot study with UK adults
Julie Chambers
16.6
Development and validation of a new questionnaire to assess eating behaviours in obese patients
Paola Gremigni
Session 17 - Stress – psychophysiology
17.1
The effect of communication ability on cardiovascular reactivity to a speech task
Susie Kola
17.2
Day-to-day support moderates the effects of availability of laboratory support on cardiovascular reactivity to
stress
Brian Hughes
17.3
Video-relayed social support and casrdiovascular reactivity to a speech task: the influence of repressive
personality and evaluation
Tracy Quinn
17.4
Stress-moderating effects of positive emotions: exposure to humourous movies during haemodialytic sessions
Mario Bertini
17.5
Altered HPA axis response to acute social stress in patients with psoriasis
Helen Richards
17.6
Overcoming the limitations of traditional reactivity measures in the prediction of everyday-life blood pressure
Cristina Ottaviani
Session 18 - Stress: measures and outcomes
18.1
The 4-dimensional stress test: reliability of HPA, SAM, PNS & psychological reactivity following inhalation of
35% CO2.
Mark Wetherell
18.2
Facial appearance signals stress hormone levels in adults
Miriam Law Smith
18.3
Memory for emotional events: the effects of stress hormone activation on memory consolidation in man
Denis K. Deady
18.4
Heart rate variability and emotion recognition in psychopathological subjects
Silvia Cabrini
18.5
Interhemispheric transfer deficit in alexithymia: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study
Vincenzo Romei
18.6
Life events, stress and quality of life
Gabor Szabo
Session 19 - Socioeconomic factors
19.1
The national children's study - social determinants of health
Sarah S Knox
19.2
Relationships between subjective health evaluation and social integration among Portuguese patients affected
by hardship from health-care centres
Pierre Tap
19.3
Process evaluation of a Dutch community intervention to improve health-related behavior in deprived
neighbourhoods
Gitte Kloek
19.4
Impact evaluation of a Dutch community intervention to improve health-related behavior in deprived
neighborhoods
Gitte Kloek
19.5
Barriers to influenza immunization in an elderly urban population
Risa M. Small
Session 20 - Theory of Planned Behaviour
20.1
Young people's attitudes to breastfeeding: a pilot study using the theory of planned behaviour
Melanie Giles
20.2
Predicting condom use intentions and behaviour among two groups of Turkish university students: a test of the
theory of planned behaviour
Gozde Ozakinci
20.3
Psychological factors influencing infant breast-feeding in first-time mothers: an application of a modified
version of the theory of planned behaviour
Lisa Mullaney
20.4
Psychosocial determinants of sun protective behaviour in Dutch adolescents
Margot van der Doef
20.5
Testing the impact of social influences on binge-drinking behaviour: an application of the theory of planned
behaviour
Richard Cooke
20.6
Evidence based professional practice; predicting advice giving in pharmacy counter assistants using the theory
of planned behaviour: a prospective study
Jo Hart
Session 21 - (Re)defining health(y)
21.1
Stereotypes of flourosed teeth: a reaction time study
Paul Bennett
21.2
Why do people (re)turn to complementary medicine? Abstract beliefs and concrete experiences
Felicity Bishop
21.3
Use of complimentary and alternative medicines to treat dysphonia; results from a clinical sample
Pauline M Sloane
21.4
Mirthful laughter, humour styles, and asthma symptoms
Carmen Moran
Session 22 - Psychological interventions
22.1
A naturalistic study of the nature of referrals to a clinical health psychology department: some areas of concern
for the work of health psychologists?
Donal Fortune
22.2
Cognitive behaviour therapy for multiple sclerosis fatigue.
Kirsten van Kessel
22.3
The use of relaxation training to reduce physiological arousal in people with a moderate intellectual disability
Brian McDonald
22.4
Teaching patients to cope with illness
Neil Fiore
22.5
Mind-body connection: coping with cancer
Neil Fiore
Session 23 - Children & chronic illness
23.1
Evaluation of the effects of growth hormone treatment on measures of health related quality of life in children
(HRQOL).
Linda Sheppard
23.2
Quality of life in children and adolescents with gaucher disease: proposing a new measure: Gaucher-QoL
questionnaire
Eduardo Remor
23.3
Children's behavioural response to diagnosis of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Emily Earle
23.4
Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) in children with recurrent urinary tract infections
Martina Deibl
23.5
The relationship between illness perceptions, coping and psychological adjustment in siblings of children with
congenital heart disease
Naomi Miller
Session 24 - Health care needs and satisfaction
24.1
Exploring perceptions of fMRI: quantitative findings
Richard Cooke
24.2
Patient satisfaction with treatments in chronic low back pain
Diane Rofail
24.3
Multimedia patient education for patients undergoing bronchoscopy
Constance Drosaert
24.4
Preliminary data from the lung information needs questionnaire
Rupert Jones
Session 25 - Delay and help seeking
25.1
Patient delay for potentially malignant oral symptoms
Suzanne Scott
25.2
Delay in going to the hospital following a myocardial infarction, failure to attend a cardiac rehabilitation
program, and denial-like coping
Ulf Stenström
25.3
Media campaigns to reduce patient delay in seeking care for heart attack symptoms: a psychosocial approach
for developing effective messages
Luca Vecchio
25.4
Communication in health service settings: informative and empathetic communication strategies to inform
about delays
Miriam Galetzka
25.4
Exploring the urinary iceberg: a systematic review of help-seeking behaviour in men with lower urinary tract
symptoms
Martin Cartwright
Session 26 - Early Parenthood
26.1
Risks and challenges in the transition to parenthood after a preterm birth
Anabela Arauio Pedrosa
26.2
The personality of pre-term mothers: some implications regarding pregnancy and motherhood
Teresa Botelho
26.3
Depression in mothers and fathers during pregnancy and the postnatal period – exploratory data from
Portuguese couple
Isabel Leal
26.4
The relationship between postpartum depression – anxiety and self-esteem
Mona Vintila
26.5
Emotional regulation among high risk infants: drug exposure or environment?
Trecia Wouldes
Session 27 - Non-smokers, smokers and quit attempters
27.1
Non-smokers: how come you never smoked? a preliminary study in the Balkans
Lambros Lazuras
27.2
Risk perception of short-term and long term consequences of smoking: the role of cumulative risk.
Domnica Petrovai
27.3
Smoking habits and smoking cessation: the roles of self-determination, motivation, coping strategies, and
resources
Hasida Ben-Zur
27.4
Fear of negative consequences and self evaluative emotions in relation to smokers’ quit attempts
Carla De Groot
27.5
Time perspective and the intention-behaviour relation: the case of quitting smoking
Velibor Bobo Kovac
27.6
Attentional bias and outcome expectancies in smokers, ex-smokers and non-smokers
Asli Niazi
27.7
Continuation of adolescent smoking after smoking experimentation
Rinka M.P. van Zundert
Session 28 - Transplantation challenges
28.1
Quality of life and psychological adjustment following heart transplantation
Børge Sivertsen
28.2
Personality defense mechanisms of patients with transplanted heart.
Siwinska Jolanta
28.3
Is pre-transplant quality of life a predictor of liver transplant outcome?
Ronan O’Carroll
28.4
Depressed mood and anxiety in heart failure and heart transplant patients
David Sheffield
28.5
The quest for normality: a qualitative study of end-stage renal disease patients awaiting transplantation
Chantal Piot-Ziegler
28.6
Waiting for a new heart: early experience from a prospective multi-site study of medical and psychological
predictors of pre-transplant outcomes
Spaderna Heike
28.7
Psychological qualification for heart transplantation; 18 years of experience of the cardiosurgery team
Bozena Gulla
Friday, September 2nd , 2005
Venue: Concourse, Arts/Science Building, NUI, Galway
17.00-18.00
Session 1 - E-Health
1.1
E-patients: are we at the beginning of a new era in patient-health provider relationships?
José Joaquín Mira
1.2
E-health promotion: the state of the art and implications for future program development, implementation and
evaluation
Jaschade de Nooijer
1.3
Can the disadvantages of online support groups be disproved?
Cornelia Kraan
1.4
Efficacy of an internet-delivered life-style computer-tailored intervention
Anke Oenema
1.5
Online support for people with eating disorders: a clinical profile of participants and perspectives of a service
Alison Darcy
1.6
The internet as a tool for research and prevention on recreational drug use
Birgit U. Stetina
Session 2 - Coping and Health
2.1
Age, gender, and patterns of coping with cancer in the first year following surgery
Nihal Mohamed
2.2
Ways of coping with breast cancer and mastectomy
Evangelos Karademas
2.3
Resource change, emotion and coping: the study of Polish women working abroad.
Ewa Gruszczyńska
2.4
Self-concealment, self-disclosure and defense mechanisms
Helena Nuutinen
2.5
Coping strategies relate to poor health, substance abuse and mental health problems in a college population
Tanya Anagnostopoulou
2.6
Coping strategies as predictors of psychosocial adaptation to lower limb amputation
Deirdre Desmond
Session 3 - Patients, partners and families facing illness
3.1
Divergent beliefs about psoriasis contribute to psychological distress for patients and their partners
Helen Richards
3.2
Communication behaviours and spousal support in individuals with type 2 diabetes and their partner: An
exploratory study
Marie-France Lafontaine
3.3
Differences in illness perceptions between cancer patients and their carers
Zoe Giannousi
3.4
Impact of colorectal cancer on patient and family: implications for care
Hortense Maria Cotrim
3.5
Couple relationship and depression: impact on cardiac rehabilitation
Lara Bellardita
3.6
The psychosocial situation of families with a member with Williams Syndrome in Portugal and Germany
Marta Gonçalves
Session 4 - Promoting physical activity
4.1
Instrumental and affective beliefs about walking in the general population: a theory of planned behaviour belief
elicitation study.
Catherine Darker
4.2
Behavioural regulation of exercise: the effects of personality traits and participation motives
David Ingledew
4.3
The personality profile of exercise dependents: a cross-sectional study
Cecilia Clementi
4.4
Self-concordance and physical exercise: a cluster-analytical differentiation of different forms of maintenance
and dropout
Reinhard Fuchs
4.5
Corporate fitness centres: do they contribute to a healthy organisation?
Julie Botten
4.6
The relationship between self-care system and sport injury for athletes
Kaori Ishii
Session 5 - Personal goals and health
5.1
Goal facilitation as an independent predictor of patient satisfaction after hospitalization
Sandra Boersma
5.2
Outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation: patients’ expectancies, goals and wishes
M. Fischer
5.3
Therapeutic observance among hypertensive patients: an integrative approach based on the self-regulation
theories
Laurent Muller
5.4
Action plans as goal setting strategy in non-smoking and smoking Dutch adolescents
Froukje Dijk
5.5
Personal goals disturbance as a moderator of the relation between daily hassles and well-being
Laurent Muller
5.6
Adolescent goal pursuit: a pilot study
Emma Massey
Session 6 - Psychological impact of cancer and treatments
6.1
Impact of mastectomy on identity and body image in women with breast cancer
Mary-Laure Ben Sassi
6.2
Anxiety and depression in women with breast cancer related lymphoedema: an Australian study
Jane Fletcher
6.3
The emotional consequences of immediate versus delayed breast reconstruction in women who underwent a
mastectomy following a breast cancer diagnosis
Leigh McCann
6.4
Fears of recurrence and psychological distress in head and neck cancer patients: preliminary findings of a
cohort study
Gerry Humphris
6.5
Psychosocial factors in women’ cancer disease adaptation
Patrizia Meringlo
6.6
Experience with breast cancer: effects on comparative optimism, anxiety, attitudes, and breast cancer selfexamination
Lorraine Swords
Session 7 - Stressful and protective aspects of work for health professionals
7.1
Boundary points used for defining burnout levels: an alternative view
Bernardo Moreno-Jimenez
7.2
Self-efficacy, expectations and engagement: patterns of interaction to predict well-being
Eva Garrosa Hernandez
7.3
Work engagement and absence of occupational accidents: are they related?
Carla Semedo
7.4
A meta-analytic investigation of occupational strain and related organisational factors in the nursing
profession
Sarah Elder
7.5
The impact of changes in job demands, job control, and worksite social support on employee health and wellbeing
Margot van der Doef
7.6
A longitudinal study about some protective dimensions against psychological distress in a population of
hospital workers
Maria Elena Magrin
Session 8 - Work-life balance
8.1
Work life balance, physical and psychological well-being in UK academics.
Fiona Jones
8.2
Work-family interference as a mediator between job demands and job burnout among Greek doctors
Anthony Montgomery
8.3
Psychological health in the workplace - a recent case study
Ann Bramwell
8.4
Understanding UK hospital consultants’ intentions to retire early from the NHS: a qualitative study.
Jenny Candy
8.5
Exploring the relationship between work and mental health in male and female hospital consultants.
Cath Taylor
Session 9 - Adolescents: well-being in health and illness
9.1
Development and prediction of health-related behaviour in childhood and adolescence
Juliane Ball
9.2
Predictors of positive health among Irish adolescents: finding from the 2001/2 HBSC study
Michal Molcho
9.3
Irish Kidscreen Project - health related quality of life
Jean Kilroe
9.4
Self-esteem in burn-injured adolescents
Koen Maertens
9.5
Adolescents’ psychological adjustment during hospitalization
Marta Fonseca
9.6
“SNAKE“ – A stress prevention program for adolescents: evaluation and further development
Anke Beyer
Session 10 - Children: symptoms and well-being
10.1
Physical symptoms in children: coping with reactivity, negative affectivity and the role of the parents
Johan Vanderfaeillie
10.2
The symptom perception model tested on children with somatoform symptoms
Johan Vanderfaeillie
10.3
Screening for emotional and behavioural problems in children with chronic illness
Mari Hysing
10.4
Children’s psychological morbidity, anxiety and cognitive function after general anaesthesia
Toni Musiello
10.5
Children of untreated addicted parents
Mr.Klein
10.6
Health and well-being of Northern Ireland school children involved in bully/victim problems.
Conor Mc Guckin
Session 11 - Hepatitis C
11.1
Neurocognitive implications in chronic hepatitis C infected patients
Bruno Peixoto
11.2
Factors affecting mood and wellbeing in patients with hepatitis C
Jeanette Golden
11.3
Illness-related stigma and depression in persons with hepatitis C
Jeanette Golden
11.4
From research to practice the development of a psychological service for individuals diagnosed with an
iatrogenic hepatitis C infection
Barbara Coughlan
Session 12 - Cognition, affect and cardiac conditions
12.1
Depressive cognitions in patients with myocardial infarction
Elizabeth Martens
12.2
Negative affectivity predicts emotional distress at two months following implantation of a cardioverter
defibrillator
Krista van den Broek
12.3
Mental health, stress and type A behavior pattern among cardiac patients
Deveneni Dhanalakshmi
12.4
Examining perceptions of illness experience in heart failure and heart transplant populations
Tara Kidd
12.5
Early symptoms of acute myocardial infarction: a qualitative survey on mental representation of AMI in three
Italian population samples
Cinzia Barbero
12.6
Stress reactivity and vital exhaustion in relation to one’s self-worth system. Investigating elite dancers and
musicians
Pia-Maria Wippert
Session 13 - Obesity- 2
13.1
Diet, alcohol and tobacco use among college age women in Cork, Ireland
Anna M O’Leary
13.2
Food marketing to children and obesity
Jan Vinck
13.3
Mothers of obese children and mothers of normal weight children - child-feeding style and nutritional
knowledge
Marina Grubic
13.4
Alexithymia, depression and general self-efficacy in anorexia nervosa
Sandra Torres
13.5
Anxiety depression, self-concept and social support in obese patients with and without binge eating disorder
Isabel Silva
Session 14 - Food, body weight and image management
14.1
Effects of two types of food planning interventions on body weight goal attainment among women with different
regulation styles
Nancy Otis
14.2
Stages of protection motivation in dietary-fat behavior – is the architecture of the PMT-variables different
within the stages of the TTM?
Sonia Lippke
14.3
The transtheoretical stages of change and fruit intake: real or pseudostages?
E.De Vet
14.4
The efficacy of the theory of planned behaviour in predicting dietary behaviour for different foods in different
groups
Anna Baker
14.5
Factor structure and reliability of the revised illness perception questionnaire in a Spanish eating disorder
sample
Yolanda Quilesmarcos
14.6
Discrepancy between real and ideal body image considering age and gender: Does it affect body-dysmorphic
disorder symptoms? A population-based survey.
Isolde Daig
Session 15 - Spiritual beliefs and health
15.1
Spiritual resources, dispositional and situational coping, and health
Irena Heszen
15.2
The positive contribution of religious support and religious coping to college student well-being
Carolyn Whitney
15.3
The impact of religion, spirituality and personal beliefs on illness representations, coping and health outcome
in diabetes
Julie Rowe
15.4
Religious denomination, gender, and attendance at worship as predictors of psychological well-being: results
from Northern Ireland
Christopher Alan Lewis
15.5
Mental health following bereavement of spouse in later life: the influence of strength of belief
Peter G. Coleman
Session 16 - Social cognition and health behaviour
16.1
Exploring the psychosocial antecedents of adolescent smoking using an extended theory of planned behaviour
model
Dawn Wilkinson
16.2
Smoking status moderates the weight of social-cognitive determinants of adolescents’ smoking intentions
An Victoir
16.3
Exploring young women’s intentions to use condoms to protect against chlamydia
Katie Newby
16.4
The influence of volitional factors on interdental hygiene: self-regulatory strategies and phase-specific selfefficacy
Amelie Wiedemann
16.5
Unhealthy and healthy automaticity: investigating the cognitive process of habit formation and change
Marit Bender
16.6
How do behaviour change techniques map on to psychological constructs: results of a consensus process
Jill Francis
Session 17 - Modelling screening and other preventative actions
17.1
Young people’s intentions to use self-test kits for signs of coronary heart disease: an application of the theory of
planned behaviour
Sajini Nandha
17.2
Can the theory of planned behaviour predict screening uptake among first-degree relatives of patients with
colorectal cancer?
Bernadette O’Sullivan
17.3
MMR immunisation uptake: understanding the role of protection motivation theory and subjective norm
Binder Kaur
17.4
Increasing uptake of the MMR vaccine: development and evaluation of a theory-based intervention
Anna Davies
17.5
The theory of planned behaviour, anticipated regret and influenza vaccination decisions in people aged 65years or older
Stephen Gallagher
17.6
Early detection of cancer: psychosocial determinants of passive detection behaviour and medical help seeking
in an elderly (55+) population
Liesbeth van Osch
Session 18 – Emotions
18.1
Maternal anxiety following newborn hearing screening: the moderating role of knowledge.
Rachel Crockett
18.2
Predicting choice and outcome of miscarriage management: a prospective study.
Mia Nelson
18.3
Complexity of affect and optimism: the effect of stress and trait anxiety
Haulie Dowd
18.4
How affiliation-motive-congruence and emotional disclosure work together in predicting well-being
Julia Schüler
18.5
Adult attachment, alexithymia and symptom reporting
Alison Wearden
Session 19 - Individual and health service outcomes
19.1
Effect of oral health education and preventive treatment on well-being in forensic psychiatric patients.
Yvonne A.B. Werkhoven
19.2
Predicting recovery from arthroscopic knee surgery: the role of outcome expectancies and dispositional
factors.
Olivia Kaproski
19.3
The role of psychosocial factors in the recurrence of herpes simplex virus
Susan Faulkner
19.4
The perceived impact of antiretroviral treatment on gay men's sexual relationships: an interview based study
Grace Gellaitry
19.5
Development of an observational measure of hospital staff hand-hygiene behaviour
John McAteer
19.6
Evaluation of the clinical and cost effectiveness of a brain injury vocational rehabilitation service: Quest Brain
Injury Services, Galway
Laura Moore
Session 20 - Psychotherapeutic challenges & approaches
20.1
Identifying psychosomatic symptoms affecting illness behaviour in out-patients psychotherapy
Katja Ehrhard
20.2
Differential rehabilitation outcomes of psychosomatic patients based on subjective and objective evaluation of
symptoms severity
Reinhold Jagsch
20.3
Revictimization of women victims of trafficking in Eastern Europe
Bodana Nicoleta Bursuc
20.4
Empowering couples victimized by terror attack in Israel
Zipora Hochdorf
20.5
Phenomenological psychology in caregiving practice
Margaret Zinder
Session 21 - Post-traumatic stress challenges
21.1
Health and mental impact of road traffic accidents
Tânia Pires
21.2
Serious and traumatic injury: the acute, short-term, and long-term mental health impact on the family.
Anthi Loutsiou-Ladd
21.3
Predictors of psychological distress in Irish ambulance personnel
Eunan Mc Crudden
21.4
Experience of critical incidents and their impact on health and well-being
Sharon Gallagher
21.5
PTSD and health in a sample of Portuguese colonial war veterans.
Maria Elena Magrin
Session 22 - Methodology: challenges in Health Psychology
22.1
Validation of short-form scales for measuring depression in health-survey context.
Anna-Mari Aalto
22.2
Validity of the HADS and BDI-FS in a clinical setting
Ronán Conroy
22.3
The factorial invariance of the GHQ-12 across time: evidence from two community-based samples
Anne Mäkikangas
22.4
Is the interplay of social-cognitive determinants of activity stage-dependent? An investigation of the HealthAction-Process-Approach in orthopaedic rehabilitation patients
Jeanette Winter
22.5
Self-esteem among Portuguese patients of health-care centres: the methodological question about the score’s
inversion in the answers to negative items
Maria de Lourdes de Vasconcelos
22.6
Can deceiving COPD smokers be detected by measuring exhaled CO to determine smoking status? A validation
of three CO monitors.
Mr Pieterse
Session 23 - Chronic Conditions
23.1
Exploring attitudinal responses to dermatological conditions using psychophysiology, implicit reactions and
individual differences.
Tracey Grandfield
23.2
Rates and correlates of DSM-IV diagnosis in patients with psoriasis
Helen Richards
23.3
Personality traits and neurotic symptoms in drug allergy patients - a foundation for their psychological
approach
Ioan Bradu Iamandescu
23.4
The experience of discontinuing antiepileptic drug treatment: An exploratory investigation.
Stephanie Hart
23.5
The relationship between sub-clinical thyroid disease, cognitive dysfunction and mood disorder in the elderly
Helen Pattison
23.6
How does stroke restrict participation in long-term post-stroke survivors?
Simonetta D'Alisa
Session 24 - Targeting health messages
24.1
Effects and possible moderators of tailoring health messages on lifestyle
S.P.J.Kremers
24.2
Effects of different goals within a message for a stair climbing campaign
Frank Eves
24.3
Using scenario information and frequency information to alter risk perceptions on chlamydia and HIV.
Fraukje Mevissen
24.4
Risk communication strategies in breast cancer
Mara Marinca
24.5
Simple explanations increase comprehension of terms used in oncology consultations
Charles Abraham
24.6
The effects of therapeutic education on observance in insulin dependant diabetes
Florence Sordes Ader
Session 25 - Behaviour: drinking, smoking & physical activity
25.1
Smoking cessation and dyadic planning: a study with pregnant women and their partners
Silke Burkert
25.2
Type D personality: the case for health related behaviour and impaired social support
Lynn Williams
25.3
Test anxiety, alcohol expectancies, and alcohol use among college students
Georgia Panayiotou
25.4
Alcohol detoxification from primary care in the NWHB
Virginia Reid
25.5
Development of the perceived promotion and interference scale of physical exercise
Yasuo Shimizu
Session 26 - Control & mastery
26.1
The level and stability of perceived control after the diagnosis of breast cancer
Inga Henselmans
26.2
Psychosocial adjustment after a first seizure: processes of losing and regaining control
Sarah Willetts
26.3
Control beliefs their impact on psychosocial adaptation in women with breast cancer at follow-up stage
Sofía López-Roig
26.4
Control beliefs and health status evolution in primary care fibromyalgia patients.
Ángeles Pastor
26.5
Patients’ reactions to venous thrombosis: an application of the theory of cognitive adaptation
Ms Moore
Session 27 - Acceptance and commitment therapy in medical populations
27.1
Application of acceptance commitment therapy (ACT) to multiple sclerosis patients
Laura Sanchez
27.2
Acceptance and cognitive control strategies in smoking-cessation interventions: a comparison between
treatments.
Monica Hernandez Lopez
27.3
The effects of acceptance and valuing on tolerance for and perception of pain
Hazel Moore
27.4
Acceptance-based strategies and pain tolerance: the role of rule-following and relational coherence
Jenny McMullen
Session 28 - General Theme
28.1
Attitudes to irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), epilepsy and chronic asthma
Carly Sarah Jacobs
28.2
Self-determination and sense of coherence: predictors of satisfaction with life in a prospective study and
changeability through autogenic training?
Stephanie M.Fröhlich
28.3
Impact of life skills and HIV/AIDS education among youth: A South African secondary school teacher’s
perspective
Supa Pengpid
28.4
Stress-induced eating: an investigation of attentional biases for food words in external eaters
Emily Newman
Session 29 - Instrument development
29.1
Italian adaptation of the Negative ACT Questionnaire (NAQR) correlations with QAM 1.5
V.Majer
29.2
The development of the self-regulation skills scale
Véronique De Gucht
29.3
Type of empathic style scale (TESS); psychometric validation of the scale and preliminary findings.
Marios Stavroyiannopoulos
29.4
Carolina del Rincon
29.5
Design and development of a multidimensional questionnaire to assess adaptation to illness in hematooncological patients
Sara Ulla
29.6
The psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Diabetes Questionnaire (MDQ): an Italian validity study.
Renato Pisanti
29.7
Measuring psychodermatological distress: the construction of the skin shame scale (SSS)
Caroline Scott
Prizes will be awarded for the best three posters in the conference. Decisions will be made on a combination of
the submitted abstract, content and presentation of the poster itself. Three judges from EHPS's Executive
Committee will make the selection. Prizewinners will be announced at the conference dinner.