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 well-being
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 post-myocardial 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 follow-up 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