This is the Chapter 7 of the book Introduction to Health Psychology (Val Morrison_ Paul Bennett) 4th Edition. Which is content for the exam of the component Health Psychology of Module 5 (Health Psychology & Applied Technology) of the University of Twente, in the Netherlands. 

Ch. 7: Health problems prevented

Screening:

• OXCHECK Study Group (1994): invited to attend a ‘health check’, participants were advised healthy-initiatives when necessary --> one-year follow-up, participants’ blood pressure levels were lower than those of people who did not take part in the screening programme
• Body Mass Index: measurement relative percentages of fat/muscle mass body à BMI = weight (kg) divided by height (m) squared
• Colposcopy: low-power microscope to identify cells may develop into cancer of the cervix. Sometimes follows a cervical smear if abnormalities are found.
• Cervical smear: smear of cells taken from cervix --> examine

This is the Chapter 11 of the book Introduction to Health Psychology (Val Morrison_ Paul Bennett) 4th Edition. Which is content for the exam of the component Health Psychology of Module 5 (Health Psychology & Applied Technology) of the University of Twente, in the Netherlands. 

Ch.11: Stress, health and illness

Stress:

• Stimulus or event external to the individual
• Psychological transaction between the stimulus event and the cognitive and emotional characteristics of the individual
• Physical or biological reaction

Life events theory (Holmes and Rahe, 1967):

Naturally occurring life events --> unitary consequences + cumulative effects

• SRRS, Holmes and Rahe 1967: social readjustment rating scale, with values (life change units [LCU]) from 11 (minor violations of law) to 100 (maximum value was assigned to death of a spouse).
  • Social readjustment: intensity/length of time necessary to

This is the Chapter 4 of the book Introduction to Health Psychology (Val Morrison_ Paul Bennett) 4th Edition. Which is content for the exam of the component Health Psychology of Module 5 (Health Psychology & Applied Technology) of the University of Twente, in the Netherlands. 

Ch. 4: Health-protective behaviour

Adherence behaviour:

Definition and measurement:

• Compliance: behaviour which conforms with “doctors’ orders”
• Adherence: person sticks to/cooperates with/advice about medication (or lifestyle change) in a more collaborative practitioner-patient relationship --> influenced individual/environmental factors (healthcare practices)
  • 60% of drug needed daily, any less defined as non-adherence
• Concordance: agreement physician/patient as to what appropriate treatment (not describe adherence behaviour, but more the conditions in which to encourage it)

Do people adhere?

• Gather data: combine self-/other- report, with biological measurements/pill counts/electronic monitoring systems
• Adherence rate vary:

Questions

Question 1

When do genetically influenced characteristics become evident?

1. Directly after birth.
2. When children are toddlers.
3. During preschool.
4. During middle childhood, adolescence or adulthood.

Question 2

Fill in:

When children encounter an unfamiliar stimulus, they accommodate / assimilate it to more familiar stimuli. At the same time, their understanding accommodates / assimilates to the experience, so that when they next encounter the unfamiliar stimulus will feel less strange. 

1. Accommodate, accommodates.
2. Assimilate, assimilates.
3. Accommodate, assimilates.
4. Assimilate, accommodates.

Question 3

Which of the following is true?

1. Children from poorer families are more often secure attached. 
2. Depression is more common among poor families.

1. Only statement 1 is true.
2. Only statement 2 is true.