The purpose of this prospective study was to examine whether illness acceptance and helplessness predict the subjective health of patients with a cardiac problem over a six months period, after controlling for baseline subjective health. A second aim was to examine whether acceptance and helplessness remain stable over time. One hundred and six cardiac patients participated in the study (66 mal...

background: patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders (fgids) may use specific coping strategies. we intend to provide a mediating role of the relationship between pain (intensity and acceptance), cognitive emotion regulation strategies, and negative emotions in patients with fgids. materials and methods: participants were 176 inpatients, all experiencing significant fgids symptomatol...

OBJECTIVES To show why and how the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression became the 'Gold Standard' for assessing therapies from the mid-1960s and how it was used to frame depression as a short-term and curable illness rather than a chronic one. METHODS My approach is that of the social construction of knowledge, identifying the interests, institutional contexts and practices that produce know...

BACKGROUND In asthma, as in other chronic conditions, poor adherence to treatment and to medical advice is common and contributes to substantial worsening of the disease and increased health care costs. OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to evaluate patients' self-reported adherence to asthma medication regimens and to identify possible correlations between treatment adherence and dep...

OBJECTIVE To describe illness cognitions two months and two years post stroke and to investigate changes in illness cognitions over time. We also examined the associations between illness cognitions and life satisfaction at two months and two years post stroke and investigated if changes in illness cognitions predicted life satisfaction two years post stroke, taking demographic and stroke-relat...

the purpose of this study was to determine the relationships between psychoticism and self-awarencess, slef – acceptance, and gender in normal subjets and to determine the validity of self-rating questionnaire in relation to eysenck's psychoticism scale. (it was hypothesized that such relationships do not exist to a significant degree between these variables). a group of 72 counselling and...