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