UNLABELLED Ethnic minorities continue to be disproportionately affected by obesity and are less likely to access healthcare than Caucasians. It is therefore imperative that researchers develop novel methods that will attract these difficult-to-reach groups. The purpose of the present study is to describe characteristics of an urban community sample attracted to a spiritually based, weight loss ...

This study was a controlled evaluation of a comprehensive school-based universal prevention program involving male and female students, parents, teachers, school administrators and local public health professionals. A total of 982 male and female Grades 6 and 7 middle school students (and 91 teachers/school administrators) completed self-report surveys at baseline on measures of body satisfacti...

451 TheRelationship BetweenEmotional Cognition and the Symptom Gap inPatientswithBronchialAsthma: theEffects ofAlexithymia and Empathy Sonomi Nakajima. Clinical Psychology, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Suitashi, Japan. Background: When symptoms are poorly controlled, patients with bronchial asthma may show a symptom gap: a cognitive divergence between the true severity o...

The effecacy of emotional schema therapy on severity clinical symptoms and schemas in the patients with functional neurological symptom disorder

451 TheRelationship BetweenEmotional Cognition and the Symptom Gap inPatientswithBronchialAsthma: theEffects ofAlexithymia and Empathy Sonomi Nakajima. Clinical Psychology, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Suitashi, Japan. Background: When symptoms are poorly controlled, patients with bronchial asthma may show a symptom gap: a cognitive divergence between the true severity o...

451 TheRelationship BetweenEmotional Cognition and the Symptom Gap inPatientswithBronchialAsthma: theEffects ofAlexithymia and Empathy Sonomi Nakajima. Clinical Psychology, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Suitashi, Japan. Background: When symptoms are poorly controlled, patients with bronchial asthma may show a symptom gap: a cognitive divergence between the true severity o...