/ TUESDAY, AUGUST 30th 2005
09.00-18.00 / Executive Committee Meeting: Room AM109, Arts Millennium Building
17.00-19.00 / REGISTRATION: Foyer, Arts Millennium Building
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31st 2005
09..00 /

REGISTRATION: Foyer, Arts Millennium Building

09.00–12.00 / EHPS Publications Meeting: Room AM109, Arts Millennium Building
Lunch can be purchased in the restaurant, An Bhialann, either before or after the Opening Ceremony.
12.30-13.00 /

OPENING CEREMONY O’Flaherty Theatre, Arts/Science Concourse

Parallel Session A
Máirtín Ó Tnúthail Theatre
Arts Millennium Building / Parallel Session B
Patrick Fottrell Theatre
Arts Millennium Building / Parallel Session C
Colm Ó hEocha Theatre
Arts Millennium Building / Parallel Session D
D'Arcy Thompson Theatre, Arts/Science Concourse / Parallel Session E
O’Flaherty Theatre, Arts/Science Concourse
A1: Symposium
Public attitudes to advances in genomes in the UK / B1: Symposium
Putting TRA/TPB into context / C1: Symposium
Cardiovascular disease: from development to secondary prevention / D1: Symposium
Designing and testing cognitive behavioural interventions in health psychology / E1: Symposium
Synergy Pre-conference Workshop: Overview
Convenor/
Chair / Richard Shepherd / Diane Morrison/Charles Abraham / Molly Byrne / Rona Moss-Morris / James Pennebaker /Bernard Rimé/ Efi Panagopoulou
13.20 / Attitudes of the general public toward genomics
Richard Shepherd / The sufficiency of the theory of planned behaviour as a model of adolescents’ decisions about having sex
Diane Morrison / Hemodynamic reactivity and ambulatory blood pressure in men and women in response to common “stressful” events
Jack E. James / Micro-interventions: the use of real-time data and personalized feedback to augment interventions
Joshua M. Smyth / Workshop Theme: Emotional Processes and Health: The Role Of Emotional Disclosure
13.40 / Do people have an overall attitude towards genomics: differentiation of attitudes according to type of application
Chris Fife-Schaw / Social cognitive prerequisites of planned and preparatory actions in the context of condom use among young people
Pepijn van Empelen / Cardiac mortality in frequent panic: neurochemical abnormalities and their modification
Ciaran Pier / A new self-management programme for irritable bowel syndrome: does it work and if so why?
Rona Moss-Morris / **This session will overview conclusions of Synergy workshop by participants**
14.00 / In science we trust? The influence of trust and information presentation on attitudes to gene patenting and cloning
Victoria Senior / Sequencing and prioritising of intentions in planned behaviour
Charles Abraham / Secondary prevention of heart disease in general practice: impact of personal and practice characteristics on patients’ lifestyles and service provision
Andrew Murphy / Long versus short family focused cognitive behaviour therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome in 11-18 year olds: a randomized controlled trial
Trudie Chalder / **This session will overview conclusions of Synergy workshop by participants**
14.20 / “You’ve taken something really good and made it, you know, monstrous”: Lay negotiations of the permissibility of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis.
Adrian Coyle / Implementation intention intervention effects mediated by action planning
Aleksandra Luszczynska / The SPHERE study: Development of theory-informed behaviour change training for primary care staff to increase secondary prevention of coronary heart disease
Molly Byrne / Stress management intervention for women undergoing treatment for breast cancer: effects of psychosocial adjustment and physiological regulation
Mike Antoni / Modern health worries in medical students
Ad Kaptein
14.40 / Discussant
Anne Marie Plass / Discussant
Ralf Schwarzer / Discussant
Liz Douglas / Discussant

Paul Bennett

/ Injury representations, coping, emotions and functional outcomes in athletes with sport related injuries.

Martin Haager

15:00- 15:30 /
COFFEE – An Bhialann Restaurant
A2: Symposium
Psychosocial effects on immunity: Individual, partner and social processes / B2: Symposium
Stage models of health behaviour change / C2: Symposium
Illness perceptions in the family / D2: Symposium
Perceptions, attitudes and the experience of aging / E2: Symposium
Current issues of adherence/self-care behaviour in chronic illness
Convenor/
Chair / Kavita Vedhara / Sonia Lippke/ Aleksandra Luszczynska / Yael Benyamini / Hannah McGee / Lynn Myers
15.30 / Stress management effects on mood and immunity in HIV+ men: the role of social support
Mike Antoni / Stages of health behaviour: introduction, overview and current status
Stephen Sutton / Does the dissimilarity between couple’s perceptions of infertility predict stress and distress following the failure of IVF treatment?
Katrina Humphrey / Are perceptions of ageing related to indices of health status in older people?
Maja Barker / Prevalence and determinants of adherence to immunosuppressive medication in renal transplant recipients
Nadia Griva
15.50 / Chronic caregiver stress and immunity
Kavita Vedhara / Social-cognitive predictors of stage transition
Sonia Lippke / Perceptions of disability and control in stroke couples and lay respondents: associations with carer wellbeing
Val Morrison / Proactive investment in the future in middle and late adulthood: the evaluation of an intervention study
Christina Bode / How successful are repressors at self-care behaviour?
Lynn B Myers
16.10 / Psychosocial regulation of immune susceptibility in childhood: the role of maternal stress, child temperament and experience of transition to school
Julie M Turner-Cobb / A match-mismatch test of a stage model of behaviour change in tobacco smoking
Arie Dijkstra / Illness representations in families with an adolescent suffering from psoriasis

Christel Salewski

/ Perceived changes in friendships and their impact on psychological wellbeing
Kate M Bennett / Self-care behaviour in heart failure patients: Implications of illness perceptions, disease severity and time since diagnosis.
Karen Grogan
16.30 / Psychosocial factors and antibody response to influenza vaccination in the young and elderly.
Anna Philips / Barriers for stage movement – where haven’t we looked at?
Stefan Keller / The experience of transplantation for patients and their significant ones: A difficult encounter of two worlds
Chantal Piot-Ziegler / Does age affect the perceived importance of sex to quality of life?
Merryn Gott / Evaluation of a patient-centred, pharmacist-delivered intervention to improve patient adherence to medication
Sarah Clifford
16.50 / Discussant
Doug Carroll / Discussant
Stephen Sutton / Patient and spouse representations of the patient’s heart disease and associations with received and provided social support and undermining
Yael Benyamini
Discussant John Weinman / Discussant

Simon Biggs

/ Discussant
Charles Abraham
17.15-18.15 / KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Shelley Taylor (UCLA, USA), O’Flaherty Theatre, Arts/Science Building
Why do people tend and befriend under stress? A biosocial approach.
Chair- Ruth Curtis [Conference President, EHPS, 2005]
18.15-19.30 / Poster Discussion Sessions, Concourse, Arts/Science Building
19.30 / RECEPTION: Hosted By An Tánaiste and Minister of Health and Children, Mary Harney TD,Foyer, Orbsen Building
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st 2005
Parallel Session A
Máirtín Ó Tnúthail Theatre
Arts Millennium Building / Parallel Session B
Patrick Fottrell Theatre
Arts Millennium Building / Parallel Session C
Colm Ó hEocha Theatre
Arts Millennium Building / Parallel Session D
D'Arcy Thompson Theatre, Arts/Science Concourse / Parallel Session E
O’Flaherty Theatre, Arts/Science Concourse
A3: Symposium
Using think-aloud methodologies to improve health-related measurement / B3: Symposium
Quality of life implications following childhood illness and injury / C3: Symposium
Dyadic coping research: A review and a preview / D3: Symposium
Understanding unplanned behaviour: Current research on prototype/willingness model / E3: Symposium
Behaviour change intervention: Theories and methods
Convenor/
Chair / Richard Cooke / Christine Eiser / Nina Knoll / Paschal Sheeran / Susan Michie/Antti Utela
9.00 / Think aloud interviewing: an example of its application to patient reported outcome measures
Joanne Greenhalgh / An exploratory study of the cognitive, academic and behavioural functioning of paediatric cardiothoracic transplant recipients
Cheryl L. Brosig / From social support to dyadic coping: More than a change of perspective?
Ute Schulz / Prototypes and adolescent health behaviour: Reasoned action, social reaction and goal contagion
Amanda Rivis / Role of familial and genetic factors in behavioural change
Jaakko Kaprio
9.20 / What do people think about when they answer Theory of Planned Behaviour questionnaires? “A think aloud” study.
Richard Cooke / Long-term cognitive and psychosocial functioning of paediatric bone marrow transplant patients
Mary J. Kupst / Distress in couples coping with cancer: An meta-analysis of role and gender effects
Mariët Hagedoorn / Assessing the impact of binger drinker prototypes within the theory of planned behaviour
Paul Norman / Using the interplay of theory and practice to develop a clinical programme for health behaviour change
Bernt Lindahl
9.40 / ‘It might happen or it might not’: How patients with multiple sclerosis explain their perception of prognostic risk
Cecile Janssens / Psychosocial impact of paediatric acquired brain injury on children and their families: A qualitative investigation
Caroline Heary / Improving the reporting of couples interventions in health psychology: Some data and a plea
James Coyne / Reactive versus reasoned processing: Proven predictors of proximal proxies?
Frederick Gibbons / Identifying effective techniques: the example of physical activity
Susan Michie
10.00 / Applying ‘think aloud’ to health-related quality of life (HrQOL) self-reports: comprehension, judgement and question-induced error
S.E.R. Stapley / Parental communication of illness information with newly diagnosed children and survivors of childhood cancer
Sally-Ann Clarke / Dyadic coping and support processes
Anita DeLongis / A dual-process approach to altering adolescent risk behaviour: Changing intentions and willingness
Meg Gerrard / Controversies in guiding and evaluating health behaviour change: Stage models vs. continuum models
Ralf Schwarzer
10.20 / Discussant
Denise de Ridder / Discussant
Christine Eiser / Discussant
Roeline Kuijer / Discussant
Paschal Sheeran / Discussant
Marie Johnston
10.40-11.00 / COFFEE – An Bhialann Restaurant
A4: Paper session
Parental influences on child and adolescent health behaviours / B4: Paper session
Smoking: From legislation to peer and family influences
[Sponsor: Department of Health & Children] / C4: Paper session
Individual differences in health: Short and long-term influences /

D4: Paper session

Evaluating health risk from a community perspective / E4: Paper session
Coping with cancer and chronic pain
Chair /

Bettina Piko

/

Stan Maes

/

Christel Salewski

/

Jane Walsh

/

Sofia Lopez-Roig

11.00 / Illness representations of adolescents with chronic illness and representations of the adolescent’s illness by a parent.
Martin Dempster / Using legislation to manage smoking: Ireland’s experience of the smoking ban

Emer Shelley

/ When it is better to give than to receive: Long tern health effects of perceived reciprocity in support exchange
Ari Vaananen / When do mum and dad need their genes back? Communicating information about genetics to children
Fiona Ulph / Cognitive-behavioural model of chronic pain and depression: A longitudinal analysis
Patrik Kuusinen
11.20 / The relations between parents’ smoking, general and smoking-specific parenting practices and adolescents’ smoking
Zeena Harakeh / Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) – could it be effective?
Rudolf Schoberberger / Self-esteem, social support and health: Cross-lagged analyses over a 6-year follow-up
Marja-Liisa Kinnunen / Factors affecting parental decisions to immunise their child with the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccination
Jane C. Walsh / Positive affect as a source of resilience in the pain-negative affect relationship in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Elin B Strand
11.40 / Impact of parents’ self-regulatory cognitions and physical activity on their children’s cognitions and practice of physical activity
Vera Araújo-Soares / Predictors of smoking cessation and relapse in Dutch adults
Ciska Hoving / Personal dispositions and mortality

Nicholas Wainwright

/ Why and how do patients inform blood relatives about inherited high cholesterol?
H. Van den Nieuwenhoff / Do verbal-autonomic response dissociations mediate the relation between avoidant coping and pain perception?
Andreas Schwerdtfeger
12.00 / Correlates of fruit and vegetable consumption among 11 year-old Belgian-Flemish and Dutch school children
Marianne Wind / Smokefree class competition in Switzerland: Does it work with negative peer pressure?
Holger Schmid / Two types of challenge appraisal and their role in functioning of patients with myocardial infarction
Kazimierz Wrzesniewski / Use of focus group techniques to inform the development of a directly observed therapy (DOT) intervention in HIV-1 infected adolescents
Patricia A. Garvie / Are the needs of cancer patients and their carers generic?
Fiona Zinovieff
12.20 / Impact of parental relationship on young adults’ health
M Graca Pereira / Why adolescents start to smoke: Peer influence versus peer selection processes
Liesbeth AG Mercken / Health goal orientations and diet: Predictions of intentions and behaviours
Carina K. Y. Chan / The effectiveness of personal-relevance information in increased perceived risk of hepatitis B infection among men who have sex with men
Raymond de Vet / Coping with breast cancer in cyberspace: understanding the role of the online support group
Neil S. Coulson
12.40 / Familial influences on sexual behaviour of adolescents: Implications for health promotion
Sonia Dias / Parent-child communication and adolescent smoking. The mediating effect of smoking cognitions
Roy Otten / Unrealistic optimism and reality constraints: Being more vulnerable but still invincible
Britta Renner / An intervention for changing high-risk behaviours of inner-city women: The role of personal resources

Evangelie Banou

/ Sociodemographic, medical treatment and psychosocial correlates of pain in scoliosis
Darren Flynn
13.00–14.00 / LUNCH – packed lunch to be collected from An Bhialann
EHPS NATIONAL DELEGATES MEETING: AM108, Arts Millennium Building
EHPS Sub-Group in Occupational Health Psychology [meeting to discuss its formation] O Tnuathail theatre, Arts Millennium Building
A5: Symposium
Global health and health psychology / B5: Paper Session
Smoking: predicting and intervening
[Sponsor: Department of Health & Children] / C5: Symposium
Dyadic coping with stress / D5: Symposium
Psychological aspects of screening for type 2 diabetes / E5: Paper session
Qualitative studies in health psychology
Convenor /
Chair / Mac MacLachlan / Steve Sutton / Falko F. Sniehotta / Wendy Hardeman & Denise de Ridder / Irina Todorova
14.00 / Towards a global health psychology
M.MacLachlan / Predicting intentions to quit smoking: the TPB and temporal construal
Jostein Rise / Distress contagion in couples
Niall Bolger / No harm done – results from the Hoorn screening study.
Frank Snoek / An Evaluation of a Healthy Living Centre: Implications for evidence based health promotion and the role of the health psychologist
Ellen Mulholland
14.20 / Training primary care nurses to conduct alcohol screening and brief interventions in South Africa
Karl Peltzer / Smoking cessation guidance in healthcare setting: adoption of minimal intervention strategies (MIS)
D. Segaar / Dyadic support processes in couples undergoing in-vitro fertilization
Nina Knoll / Longer-term psychological consequences of early detection and treatment of type-2 diabetes
Bart Thoolen / Classifying health behaviours: Understanding how individuals perceive health-related behaviours

Rosemary McEachan

14.40 / Health risk behaviours, health education needs and perspectives towards public health services in rural South African communities
Supa Pengpid / Continuation of adolescent smoking after smoking experimentation
Rinka van Zundert / Mobilisation of social support in dyads: the effects of depression, gender and the relationship type
Thomas Klauer / Screening for type 2 diabetes in general practice: feasibility, uptake and effects of psychological health
Simon Griffin / An investigation into the experience of parents/guardians caring for a young person with Juvenile Huntington’s Disease: An interpretative phenomenological analysis.

Helen Brewer

15.00 / Strengthening health systems in Africa: Motivational aspects of human resources
Eilish Mc Auliffe / Smoking cessation in COPD patients: 12-month results of the SMOKE study
Lieke Christenhusz / What is the benefit of different components of marital distress prevention programs for couples in lowering their risk to become maritally distressed again?
Guy Bodenmann / Patients’ experiences of screening for Type 2 diabetes: a qualitative study
Helen Eborall / Children's voices: qualitative data from a therapeutic recreation programme for children with a chronic illness

Emma Meyler

15.20 / Discussant
Diarmuid O’ Donovan / Cognitive predictors of GPs intentions to recommend smoking cessation services to smokers that want to stop smoking
Florian Vogt / Discussant
Ralf Schwarzer / Discussant
Theresa Marteau /

Revelations from the analysis of free-text responses in the lung information needs questionnaire

Sam Harding

15.40 – 16.00 / COFFEE – An Bhialann Restaurant
16.00- 17.00 / KEYNOTE ADDRESS: James W. Pennebaker (U. Texas, USA) O’Flaherty Theatre, Arts/Science Concourse
Two decades of expressive writing and health: The current state of the field

Chair- Britta Renner [EHPS President Elect ]

17.00-18.00 / POSTER DISCUSSION SESSION; Concourse, Arts/Science Building
17.45-18.45 / RECEPTION: Celebration of Psychology & Health's 20th Anniversary and Launch of Health Psychology Review –
Hosted by publishers, Taylor & Francis. – Concourse, Arts/Science Building
19.00-20.15 / EHPS MEMBERS MEETING, D’Arcy Thompson Theatre, Arts/Science Building
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND 2005
Parallel Session A
Máirtín Ó Tnúthail Theatre
Arts Millennium Building / Parallel Session B
Patrick Fottrell Theatre
Arts Millennium Building / Parallel Session C
Colm Ó hEocha Theatre
Arts Millennium Building / Parallel Session D
D'Arcy Thompson Theatre, Arts/Science Concourse / Parallel Session E
O’Flaherty Theatre, Arts/Science Concourse
A6: Symposium
Community genetics / B6: Paper Session
Influences on exercise and physical activity / C6: Symposium
Self-control: what is it and does it help health behaviour? / D6: Symposium
Selective optimization with compensation: Implications for adaptation and health self-regulation / E6: Symposium
Stress and health in the workplace
Convenor/
Chair / Anne Marie Plass / Pilvikki Absetz / Roeline G. Kuijer / Ann O’Hanlon / Katharine R. Parkes & Rob Briner
9.00 / Preconceptional cystic fibrosis carrier couple screening: impact understanding and satisfaction
Lidewij Henneman / Promoting stair use: Single versus multiple stair-riser messages
Oliver J. Webb / Carrying on or giving in: The role of (implicit) cognition in self-control
Hugo Alberts / Use of selective optimization with compensation (SOC) adaptation strategies by older people differing in health status
Ann O’Hanlon / Antecedents and consequences of conflict between work and home life
Emma Hughes
9.20 / The need to facilitate informed choice equitably

Elizabeth Dormandy

/ The relationship between self-determined motivation and exercise-related affect
Geeta Vadgama / When does compunction help or hinder self-control? The role of guilt and shame proneness
Roger Giner-Sorolla / Stroke and wellbeing: Implications of initial stroke severity and strategies of adaptation
Claire Donnellan / Personality as a predictor of employee absence
Sarah R. Owens & Rob Briner
9.40 / The effect of a genetics information leaflet on public attitudes towards genetic testing

Saskia Sanderson