Health Psychology and Quality of Life Research II.

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Health Psychology and Quality of Life Research
Proceedings of tlie 8th Annual Conference of the European Helath Psychology Society
EDITED by Jesús Rodríguez-Marín
Department of Helath Psychology University of Alicante. Spain.
The 8th Conference of the European Health Psychology Society took place in 1995 at Alicante University (Spain), about "Health Psychology and Quality of Life Research". This book contains lectures, papers and posters presented at the conference, organized around the following topics and divided in two volumes with an introduction, "The Quality of life", written by Marie Johnston, President of the EHPS. The first volume goes around "Theoretical and professional issues in health", "Prevention and promotion in health", and "Psychosocial factors and quality of life in chronic diseases". Volume II presents the following chapters: "Psychobiological processes", "Assessment in Health Psychology", "Mental Health and quality of life", "Work and Health", Lifespan and... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Health Psychology and Quality of Life Research
Proceedings of tlie 8th Annual Conference of the European Helath Psychology Society
EDITED by Jesús Rodríguez-Marín
Department of Helath Psychology University of Alicante. Spain.
The 8th Conference of the European Health Psychology Society took place in 1995 at Alicante University (Spain), about "Health Psychology and Quality of Life Research". This book contains lectures, papers and posters presented at the conference, organized around the following topics and divided in two volumes with an introduction, "The Quality of life", written by Marie Johnston, President of the EHPS. The first volume goes around "Theoretical and professional issues in health", "Prevention and promotion in health", and "Psychosocial factors and quality of life in chronic diseases". Volume II presents the following chapters: "Psychobiological processes", "Assessment in Health Psychology", "Mental Health and quality of life", "Work and Health", Lifespan and Health", "Women and Health" and "Attitudes and Health".
A lot of research projects have been conducted with quality of life as a health status endpoint, and, in fact, quality of life is one of the most important "research topics" in the current Health Psychology. As written by M. Johnston in the Introduction, quality of life "is a major current area of multidisciplinary research achieving considerable importance due to the need to evaluate treatments which offer benefit but which do not affect survival time in life-threatening conditions, treatments which potentially added quality but not quantity of life". Therefore, seemed reasonable to dedicated one Conference to that theme, in order to provide and discuss novel perspectives on it. I think that this book is a good demonstration of the work about quality of life carrying out in the european health psychology, and I hope that it will be profitable and useful not only to academic investigators, but also to others who plan, conduct, review or otherwise use results of quality of life researches.
JESUS RODRIGUEZ-MARIN, Ph.D., is currently a professor of Health Psychology Head of the Department of Health Psychology in the Medical School at the University of Alicante (Spain). He is a member of the Sociedad Espanola de Psicología, Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Espana. Sociedad Espanola de Psicología de la Salud. American Psychological Assotiation (Health Psychology Division), Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, European Association of Psychological Assessment and European Society of Health Psychology (currently member of the Executive Committee). His research interests are in health, social support and coping with chronic illness, quality of life in chronic patients, and health care service quality Vissza