BACKGROUND An intervention, consisting of an ACT-based smartphone-application and a web-based psychoeducation, has been developed. The smartphone-application, together with the psychoeducation, aims to function as a self-help intervention for living consistently with one's values. The study is an exploratory investigation of this new smartphone-based tool. CASE DESCRIPTION Primarily, the stud...

OBJECTIVE To observe the influence of psychological intervention on pain, immune system and adrenocortical functions of patients receiving lung cancer surgery. METHODS We selected 124 patients who received surgery for treating stage I or II lung cancer and divided into experimental group and control group. The experimental group received comprehensive psychological intervention while the cont...

Illness Perceptions in Noncardiac Chest Pain – A Brief Psychological Intervention Background: Noncardiac chest pain is a frequent condition that is likely to develop a chronic course. Simply reassuring patients about nonpathological diagnostic test results has proved to be insufficient to effectively reduce dysfunctional illness representations and worry. The aim of the study was to develop a b...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship between pain sensitivity and children's distress during lumbar punctures (LPs), and whether pain sensitivity functions as a moderator of children's responses to a psychological intervention aimed at reducing LP distress. METHOD Fifty-five children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ages 3 to 18) and their parents completed a questionnaire measure of pain...

The goals of the present study are to evaluate, implement, and adapt psychological skills used in the realm of sports into music performance. This research project also aims to build foundations on how to implement future interventions to guide music students on how to optimize practice toward performance. A 2-month psychological skills intervention was provided to two students from the nationa...

OBJECTIVE To review empirical studies of psychological interventions for pain and adherence outcomes among patients with sickle cell disease. METHOD We conducted a literature review of studies using psychological interventions targeted at pain and/or adherence behaviors related to sickle cell disease. The American Psychological Association Division 12 Task Force criteria (Chambless criteria) ...

The management of depression and other negative psychological states in cardiac patients has been a focus of multiple treatment trials, though such trials have not led to substantial improvements in cardiac outcomes. In contrast, there has been minimal focus on interventions to increase positive psychological states in cardiac patients, despite the fact that optimism and other positive states h...