Psychosocial factors associated with skin self-exam performance.(Report)

Journal of American College Health;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......often the case with health behaviors, young people are...perform a variety of health behaviors. (9) The difference...date have examined psychosocial factors that might explain...reject preventive health behaviors--such as applying...undermine preventive health ...

Predictors of health behaviors in college students.(Behaviorial and Social...

Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science;  April 1, 2003 ;     305 words ...Health behaviors formed during young adulthood...a sustaining impact on one's health across later life. Because health behaviors can be affected by psychosocial factors, the purpose of this study was...Health Belief Model, and common health behaviors. Data ...

Do psychosocial factors affect coronary atherosclerosis risk?(Tips)

American Family Physician;  September 15, 2006 ;     511 words ......been suggested for the effects of psychosocial factors on the risk of coronary atherosclerosis...relationship between self-reported psychosocial factors and coronary calcium levels in adults...chronic stress burden. For each of the psychosocial factors, patients were divided into ...

How You Think, Feel, and Live Affects Your Heart, Says the Harvard Heart...

U.S. Newswire;  May 25, 2005 ;     376 words ......negative) outlook on life, and other psychosocial factors extend beyond affecting mood and...their contribution to heart attacks, psychosocial factors are on a par with smoking, high...especially reactive to further stress. Psychosocial factors have also been linked with factors...

Relationships of agency, communion, unmitigated agency, and unmitigated...

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport;  February 1, 2007 ;     426 words ......may help explain individuals' health behaviors. AG is a positive focus on...variance than sex in selected health behaviors. In general, AG and CM were expected to predict positive health behaviors, while UA and UC were expected...

Study finds link between psychosocial factors and cardio vascular diseases

The Hindustan Times;  January 23, 2007 ;     421 words ......Jan 23 -- According to a study, psychosocial factors, such as cynical distrust, chronic...graded associations between all three psychosocial factors and inflammatory markers. "The strongest...the IL-6 level. Associations of psychosocial factors with inflammatory markers were ...

Associations of psychosocial factors with the stress of infertility...

Health and Social Work;  August 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......other populations suggests that psychosocial factors may play a role in mediating or...its consequences. We investigated psychosocial factors thought to be associated with perceived...to identify the extent to which psychosocial factors were associated with variation in...

Mental Health, Family Function and Obesity in African-American Women

Journal of the National Medical Association;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......related diseases. How psychological and psychosocial factors that affect this population differ across...Purpose: To determine whether poor mental health and family functioning are associated...symptoms and anxiety levels. Demographics, health behaviors and family and personal histories of ...

Psychosocial Factors in Pain: Critical Perspectives.

Families, Systems & Health;  September 22, 2000 ;     616 words ...Psychosocial Factors in Pain: Critical Perspectives...research on pain. The impact of psychosocial factors in pain, as the title implies...setting in addressing pain. Psychosocial factors as predictors of response to...

Health beliefs and health behaviors of physical therapists.

Physical Therapy;  March 1, 1989 ;     700+ words ...Health Beliefs and Health Behaviors of Physical Therapists The...potential for positive change in health behaviors. The change in behaviors of...assessment scales, the students' health behaviors were positively changed in...

Anxiety predicted MI rate in men during 10 years.(Myocardial...

Internal Medicine News;  April 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ......has been done with other psychosocial factors like depression and hostility...possible association between psychosocial factors and heart disease. Other...can depression and other psychosocial factors explain this association...Interestingly, these other psychosocial ...

Elevated risk of MI seen in men who are anxious: a 10-year study of 740...

Clinical Psychiatry News;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......work has been done with psychosocial factors like depression and hostility...possible association between psychosocial factors and heart disease. Other...can depression and other psychosocial factors explain this association...Interestingly, these other psychosocial ...

African American college students' perceptions of psychosocial factors...

College Student Journal;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......college students' perceptions of psychosocial factors that influence racial disparities...patterns or the dimensionality of psychosocial factors identified by the students. Principal...more than 64% of the variance of psychosocial factors influencing racial disparities in...

Psychosocial Variables Associated with Back Pain in the Elderly: A...

Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......the association of psychosocial factors with experience of...influenced by selected psychosocial factors and that employment...factors. Keywords: psychosocial factors, low back pain, occupation...

A biopsychosocial approach to chronic low back pain and disability in a...

The Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Physical factors as well as psychosocial factors play a role in the development of chronicity. In fact, psychosocial factors may be the most dominant...addressing both physical and psychosocial factors. This case study presents...