Dominika Kwasnicka, SWPS University, Poland and University of Melbourne, Australia Det ultimative mål med sundhedsfremmende tiltag er at skabe længerevarende forandring og sundhedsprofessionelle kan hjælpe patienterne til at forbedre deres helbred og bibeholde adfærdsændringer. Vi ved at det er svært at påbegynde en adfærdsændring og endnu sværere at holde ved den på længere sigt. Et […]
By Thomas L. Webb, Department of Psychology, The University of Sheffield, the UK How are you getting on with your goal to reduce the amount of sugar that you eat and lose 10kg? Chances are that you don’t really know – or even want to know. In situations like these, people tend to behave like […]
By Shane Timmons, Economic and Social Research Institute, Ireland Governments worldwide have mobilised to try to control the spread of the novel coronavirus, but the behaviour of individuals will be vital to their success. We – the Behavioural Research Unit at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin – are working with Ireland’s Department […]
By Nadia Garnefski and Vivian Kraaij, Department of Clinical Psychology, Leiden University, The Netherlands “Rob has just heard that he has HIV (negative event). He thinks that he is the one to blame for this (self-blame) and he avoids seeing his friends (withdrawal). The situation makes him sad. When sitting at home, he cannot stop […]
Peter Harris and Ian Hadden, The Self-Affirmation Research Group, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, UK Have you ever been reluctant to face up to something you’d rather ignore? Maybe your fondness for something bad for you that you eat too often or your tendency to avoid health check-ups? Well, you’re not alone. Most of […]
By Winifred Gebhardt, Leiden University, The Netherlands About nine years ago, I became a vegetarian overnight. In a novel I was reading, the main character explained how he could not eat anything “in which at some time a heart had been beating”. Like a thunderbolt these few words sunk in. I realized that this was […]
By Marie Johnston and Derek Johnston, University of Aberdeen, Scotland Practitioners frequently want the answer to a problem which concerns one person, one health care team, one hospital or one region etc. For example, it may be important to know how often an obese man snacks, when and where he snacks and if stress makes […]
Af Anne Tiedemann, The University of Sydney, Australien “Mangel på aktivitet ødelægger ethvert menneskes gode helbred, mens bevægelse og systematisk fysisk aktivitet bevarer og beskytter det”… Plato, 400 f.Kr. Det har længe været velkendt, at fysisk aktivitet, som en fast vane, er vigtig for både helbred og velvære. Sundhedskampagner er imidlertid ofte målrettet børn og […]
Af Jane Ogden, University of Surrey, UK Vægt er et kildent emne at omtale i en konsultation. Nogle patienter kan være trætte af at høre ordene “du burde tabe dig” hver gang de besøger klinikken: uanset om de er kommet på grund af ondt i halsen, en screening for livmoderhalskræft eller potentielle hjerteproblemer. De har […]
Af Ralf Schwarzer, Berlins Frie Universitet, Tyskland og SWPS Universitet for Samfundsvidenskab og Humaniora, Polen At ændre ens adfærd er ofte ønskværdigt men svært at føre ud i livet. At stoppe med at ryge, spise sundt og følge en træningsplan kræver alt sammen motivation, en kontinuerlig indsats og generel vedholdenhed. Mens mange psykologiske faktorer har […]
