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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"online interventions"”.
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Online social marketing: website factors in behavioural change
… to rethink how they engage with target audiences online. However, there is little evidence that online social marketing interventions can significantly influence behaviours, while there are few evidence-based guidelines to aid online intervention design. This thesis assesses the efficacy of online …
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Health psychology in applied settings
… treatments, with particular reference to online interventions for pain management. Overall, results reveal that escalating pain; the inability to find pain relief; positive expectancies, and a number of facilitating factors play a role in the formation of positive attitudes and increase …
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Adapting Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) to Custodial Grandparents
… service delivery adaptation was developed and an online intervention was created (Stage 2) to transcend treatment barriers. Finally, during Stage 3, this online intervention was tested in a small single-subject design pilot study. Multiple metrics supported the feasibility, accessibility, …
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Expanded Behavioral Model for Online Support Services
The rapid expansion of online technologies and health resources has created opportunities to develop broadly available interventions to address the needs of the modern patient. This study proposes a theoretical structure based on Andersen's Individual Determinants of Health Service Utilization …
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Acts of kindness in close relationships reduce depression
… stress. It was hypothesized that a short term, online kindness exercise would decrease depression and increase happiness in a community sample (at baseline N = 364), and would be particularly beneficial for individuals high on neediness. Participants were recruited online and randomly assigned …
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Single session intervention using acceptance and commitment therapy for binge eating: a components analysis in a community sample
… targeted Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) interventions and test whether these interventions reduce eating related difficulties and improve emotion regulation and psychological flexibility. Three interventions were compared using an open trial methodology. Participants (n=39) were …
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Time for a Change: College Students' Preference for In-Person versus Technology Mediated Help for Emotional Distress
… psychological treatment and internet technology, online computerized therapy is not popular. The college population with almost universal access to both computers and the internet and a high rate of psychological distress could be an important area for the dissemination of evidence-based online …
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Use of Emoticons for Assessing Emotion and Mood States in Web-Based Interventions
<p>In the rapidly growing field of online psychotherapeutic interventions, an increasing number of clinicians are seeking to extend therapeutic interventions into cyberspace. However, because communication with clients in this medium is often devoid of auditory and visual feedback, these clinicians …
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Online Psychosocial Support for Oncology Patients: A Group Facilitation Manual
… support groups. While research has shown that online therapy is effective, the quality and efficacy of therapy is often unknown and/or sub-optimal and essential psychological care cancer patients deserve is compromised. The purpose of this project was to provide therapists and other mental …
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Are we almost there? A mixed methods exploration of attendance, engagement, and outcomes in an online group intervention for first-episode psychosis
… COVID-19 pandemic brought to light the limited online treatment options for individuals with psychosis, despite the potential for this modality to improve access to specialized interventions. Some research examining online group interventions was conducted during the pandemic, however much of …
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The Effects of Personalized Boosters for a Computerized Intervention Targeting College Student Drinking
… dependence (Knight et al., 2002). Computerized interventions are widely used because of their advantages over in-person interventions. They are more cost-effective and can quickly deliver tailored individual feedback to more students. Computerized interventions can be administered to large …
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The Effectiveness of a Music-based Relaxation Intervention and a Mindfulness-based Intervention Delivered Online to Decrease Hospice Workers Stress and Improve Professional Quality of Life
… study was to compare the effectiveness of an online music-based intervention and an online mindfulness-based intervention to decrease hospice workers’ stress and increase professional quality of life. Method: A total of 153 eligible hospice workers were randomly assigned to either the …
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Improving treatment engagement in people with eating disorders: utilising digital approaches.
… the factors that might influence engagement with online support tools. An initial systematic review indicated that brief motivational interventions were acceptable for addressing low motivation to change and engagement issues, with online interventions highlighted as a viable delivery method. …