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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"social support and health"”.
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Social Support And Health Behaviors
… evidence exists showing a correlation between social support and health behaviors. However, does social support act the same across several health behaviors? The purpose of this study was to determine if social support has an impact across diet, physical activity and smoking in adults. The …
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RELATIONSHIPS AMONG DAILY STRESSORS, SOCIAL SUPPORT AND HEALTH OF SINGLE PARENTS IN TAIWAN
… families are generally more vulnerable and socially disadvantaged than two-parent families. Single parents often have a small social network size and lower level of receiving network support. Low social network support may be a risk factor for health problems. No study has directly …
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Stress, social support, and health risk behaviours as mediators of the forgiveness-health relation /
The mediating roles of stress, social support, and health risk behaviours in the relationships between dispositional forgiveness and mental and physical health were examined. Participants were 748 undergraduate students (554 women, 194 men) entering their first year of studies at Brock University. …
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Bariatric Surgery Regain and Long-Term Weight Loss among Women: Self-Efficacy, Social Support and Health Promotion Lifestyle Behaviors
… in this population cannot be ignored. Understanding the relationship between potential psychosocial predicting post-surgical variables influencing bariatric surgery may prevent long-term weight regain. The purpose of this research is to examine self-efficacy, social support, and lifestyle …
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Individual Resilience, Social Support, and Health Risk Behaviors in Adolescents and Young Adults: Study on Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Samples
… academic achievements. Evidence of resilience on health risk behaviors has not been comprehensively established yet. The purposes of this dissertation were to extend the existing literature about the stability of resilience through time, to examine how the resilience scale concurrently and …
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Social Support And Health Outcomes In Adolescents Experiencing Homelessness And Poverty: A Test Of The Main Effect And Stress-Buffering Hypotheses
<p>The health benefit and stress-buffering effects of social support were examined. Homeless (N=250) and housed (N=148) adolescents were assessed in adolescence and again in early adulthood, providing longitudinal data to help understand how these social constructs may change and influence health. …
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THE EFFECTS OF PARTICIPATION IN A GRIEF CHOIR ON PERCEIVED GRIEF, COPING, ENERGY, SOCIAL SUPPORT, AND HEALTH AMONG BEREAVED ADULTS: A MIXED METHODS RANDOMIZED CONTROL STUDY
… participation in a treatment grief choir vs. standard care grief group (verbal) on bereaved persons’ perceived grief, coping, energy, social support and health and to examine the experiences of those participating in both groups. In this mixed-methods study, the results from the qualitative …
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The Associations of Chronic Stress, Social Support, Health Behaviors and Metabolic Syndrome among Hispanic Women
<p><strong>The Associations of Chronic Stress, Social Support, Health Behaviors and Metabolic Syndrome Among Hispanic Women</strong></p> <p><strong></strong><strong>Background: </strong>Metabolic syndrome (MetS) prevalence is 25% among Mexican American women 30 – 49 years of age, compared to 22% …
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Factors and Health Promoting Behaviors that Influence Maternal and Infant Outcomes in Older Pregnant Thai Women
… Nursing degree from the Hahn school of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of San Diego. The results of the dissertation research are organized as three discrete papers. Article one is entitled; "Reliability and Validity of Thai Translations of Instruments Measuring Psychosocial Factors and …
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Do Social Control Motives Combine with Perceptions of Social Support to Predict Relationships between Interpersonal Stress and Blood Pressure in the Normal Environment?
<p>Social support is related to lower risk for cardiovascular disease development. Yet, research has failed to yield consistent evidence for psychological mechanisms of relationships between social support and health outcomes. Explanations for these failures include limitations of research design …
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A Theory of Misdiagnosis: A Qualitative Analysis of the Diagnosis Journey for an Ambiguous, Visible Disease With Stigmatizing Symptoms
Misdiagnosis is a serious problem in health care. This dissertation aims to explain why it can take many years to receive a diagnosis for a rare disease despite multiple attempts to seek help for unresolved symptoms. Using theories from social construction, labeling theory, social support, and …
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Pregnancy Outcome in Military and Civilian Women
<p>Low birth weight and prematurity account for much of the morbidity and mortality in the neonatal period as well as for much of the cost in newborn care. The purpose of this investigation was to determine if two groups of pregnant women, military enlisted and civilian dependents, differed in …
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Factors Affecting Health Promotion Lifestyle Behaviors among Arab American Women
Guided by Pender and colleagues' (2006) revised health promotion model (HPM), this descriptive correlational study was designed to explore the relationships between personal factors (comprised of sociodemographic factors, degree of acculturation, and perceived stress), perceived health …
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Predictors of Health Promoting Lifestyles in Baccalaureate Nursing Students
… Nurses comprise the largest segment of healthcare professionals. As nursing students become health professionals, they will have a significant role in modeling health promoting lifestyles and educating patients regarding healthy lifestyle choices.</p><p> Purpose: The purpose of this …
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Predictors and Consequences of Decision Making in Domestic Violence
… impact of domestic violence upon the individual and society is widespread. Despite this up to 75% of women choose to remain in or return to abusive relationships, a decision that represents significant barriers towards the provision of support, a wider understanding, and criminal justice …
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Predictors of quality of life and adjustment to chronic fatigue syndrome.
… examined factors that contributed to the psychosocial adjustment and quality of life of individuals with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). Variables studied included coping strategies, health locus of control, social support, quality of life, and psychosocial adjustment to illness. Forty CFS …
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Psychological Factors, Health Behaviors, and CVD Risk in Caregivers of Thai Older Adults with Dementia
… remain underexplored, particularly in Thailand’s rapidly aging society. This study examined direct effects of psychological factors (resilience, caregiver burden, and perceived social support) and health behaviors (physical activity and sleep quality) on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk …
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THE POSITIVE ASPECTS OF CAREGIVING AMONG TAIWANESE CAREGIVERS OF AGING RELATIVES WITH DEMENTIA
… family caregivers of older adults with dementia and their perceptions of the positive aspects of caregiving. More specifically, the study aimed to identify factors such as demographic characteristics of the older adults and caregivers, as well as caregiver role strain, social support, and …
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The Application of the Transtheoretical Model of Change to Self-care Behaviors in Type 2 Diabetics
… Change (TTM) has been investigated as a model of health behavior change; however, it has only begun to gain recognition in the diabetic population, and has not yet been investigated as it relates to the full-spectrum of diabetes self-care behaviors.</p> <p><strong>Purpose.</strong> The purpose of …
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