INTRODUCTION Medication adherence is critical in chronic immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) and could be affected by patients' treatment-related beliefs. The objective of this study was to determine beliefs about systemic medications in patients with IMIDs and to explore the association of those beliefs and other factors with adherence. METHODS This was a multi-country, cross-secti...

psychological symptoms are considered as one of the aspects and consequences of cardiovascular diseases (cvds), management of which can precipitate and facilitate the process of recovery. evaluation of the psychological symptoms can increase awareness of treatment team regarding patients’ mental health, which can be beneficial for designing treatment programs (1). however, time-consuming proces...

background and purpose: humans have a capacity to become aware of thoughts and behaviors known as metacognition. the metacognitive model of anxiety disorders emphasizes that metacognitive beliefs are key factors in obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression pathology. the purpose of this research was to compare metacognitive beliefs in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd) and dep...

Guided by a culturally-informed illness representation self-regulation model (CIRSRM), this study analyzed the relations among 223 Asian Americans’ lay beliefs about depression, enculturation to Asian values, and their likelihood of seeking professional help for depression. Participants’ lay beliefs were assessed through an analysis of written responses to open-ended questions about depression....

Much research, but not all, appears to show that persons with severe mental illness are more dangerous and violent than others; but it is misleading and feeds the stigma cannon. This paper critically reviews reported correlations between severe mental illness and violence, examines their statistical confounds, highlights studies which seek causal mechanisms explaining the associations, points t...

The main objective of this study was to establish linkages of beliefs about the factors responsible for the disease (causal beliefs) and for recovery from the disease (recovery beliefs) with perceived control and psychological adjustment to a chronic disease. Seventy hospitalized male. Hindu, chest tuberculosis patients were interviewed. The mean ratings on causal factors (God's will and Karma)...

Most research on step-by-step causal learning has focused on the various possible effects early correlations (in a sequence) can have on a learner’s causal beliefs. Recent work has suggested that more information about an individual’s learning strategy can be extracted by examining the slope of the learner’s causal belief trajectory over time after the world changes. We examined step-by-step ca...

In many economic contexts, an elusive variable of interest is the agent’s expectation about relevant events, e.g. about other agents’behavior. Recent experimental studies as well as surveys have asked participants to state their beliefs explicitly, but little is known about the causal relation between beliefs and other behavioral variables. This paper discusses the possibility of creating exoge...

BACKGROUND Low health literacy is associated with low adherence to self-management in many chronic diseases. Additionally, health beliefs are thought to be determinants of self-management behaviors. In this study we sought to determine the association, if any, of health literacy and health beliefs among elderly individuals with COPD. METHODS We enrolled a cohort of patients with COPD from two...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Maintaining perceived psychological control in older adulthood is beneficial for health, well-being, and adjustment to chronic illness. Theoretically, control over specific, personally meaningful domains should inform general control beliefs. Thus, the objective of the present study was to examine perceived control over the exercise domain (operationalized as exercise inten...