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2092 ORAL
Health psychology
Chair: Seema Vinayak, India
2092.1 Life threatening and life debilitating illness: Psychosocial impact on parents of affected
children, Seema Vinayak, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
The study, first of its kind, assesses the impact of having children with muscular dystrophy,
diabetes Type I and normal health on 210 mothers and fathers. Spielberger's anxiety scale, and
stress, general well-being, quality of life and coping scales were administered. Semi-structured
interviews were conducted. 3x2 Repeated Measures Design revealed significant differences in
three groups on stress, anxiety, general well-being and quality of life. Within groups, mothers and
fathers differed on these variables. Turning to religion and humour were used more in parents of
the affected children whereas in control group, positive reinterpretation, planning and alcohol
were frequently used.
2092.2 Quality in health: Difficulties due to ethnic, cultural and religious diversity, Sandra
Cristina Domingues Feliciano, QEC Operations Director for Portugal & Sweden, Portugal
Quality in health is a complex theme, and the recent cosmopolization of the Portuguese society
has created new challenges for the health care system, due to the diversification of the needs and
expectations of the citizens. This study made an informal listing of the difficulties inherent to this
new social reality. The results showed problems at the levels of communication with foreigners,
disrespect for religious beliefs and insufficient training. Action is needed in order to fully
characterize the situation in the field, promote the open and prejudice-free dialogue between the
interested parties and create conditions to implement the necessary changes.
2092.3 A confirmatory study on the structure of middle school students’ examination mental
problem, Qi Jiang, Dajun Zhang, China
Based on interviews, open questionnaires and exploratory factor analysis, we tested the dimension
of examination mental problem of middle school students and the validity of the measurement
scale (EMP), which was tested on 576 subjects in Chongqing. The results are that the sub-scales of
EMP involve thirteen factors: interpersonal sensitivity, anxiety, stage fright, blame oneself, the feel
of family pressure, body symptom, motion problem, compel, depressive symptom, inferiority
complex, mental disease, cognition problem and neurosis; the scale has high reliability and
validity, and it can be used as an effective tool to assess middle school students’ examination
mental problem.
2092.4 A study of the internet mental disorder of fresher, Mingxia Wu, Qin Luo, Xiaodong Qi,
Juhu Ou, China
This study explored the internet mental disorder of 699 freshers with self-designed questionnaire.
The data are handled to find the different effects of gender, family source, familial atmosphere and
mode of bringing-up on the emotion response, motive conflict, realism alienation and the body
symptom. The results showed: (1) generally the negative mental disorder of freshers is not serious;
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