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4100 ORAL
Health psychology
Chair: Maria Montero, Mexico
4100.1 Effects of coping and social support on quality of life in adult cancer patients, Jung-Hye
Kwon 1 , Seung-Youn Kim 1 , Bum-Han Yu 1 , Ji-Won Hur 2 , 1 Korea University, Korea,
2
Department of cardiac and thoracic surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University
School of Medicine, Korea
The purpose of this study was to examine the utility of the stress-coping model in explaining
cancer patients’ quality of life and pain management. It was assumed that the cancer patients’
quality of life and level of pain should be affected by their cancer status and level of stress, and
moderated by coping style and social support. Over 200 cancer patients were contacted and
administered on the measure of level of stress (LS), coping (CCQ), social support (SS), quality of
life (EORTC-core 30). Data is currently being collected. It will be analyzed with structural
equation model (AMOS).
4100.2 Female sex workers and the Chinese HIV epidemic, Bu Huang, School of Social Work,
University of Washington, USA
China has recently been experiencing a rapid increase in the number of HIV/AIDS cases.
Heterosexual transmission would eventually become the major route of transmission. Female Sex
Workers (FSWs) will play an extreme important role in this epidemic, under current social and
cultural situations. In the Spring of 2004, we will conduct qualitative interviews with 30 FSWs to
examine the social, cultural beliefs, understandings, and meanings that underlying the HIV related
behaviors and decision making processes of FSWs in China. This is a first step in a larger scale
project studying HIV through FSWs and their clients in China.
4100.3 The IR-Model, a strategy to promote healthy behaviours in vulnerable groups, Maria
Montero 1 , Gilda Nina Montero López-Lena 2 , 1 National Autonomous University of Mexico.
2
School of Psychology, Mexico, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. Programa
IMSS-Oportunidades. Mexico
A conceptual-methodological model called “IR” (Information Reflexive) was developed and
tested in rural and indigenous Mexican groups. This model combines emotional, cognitive and
behavioural components. Using the new technologies -long distant transmission- in combination
with teaching monitoring in situ, 303,861 Mexican adolescents were trained in preventive
pregnancy and health sexual behaviours, from 1997 to 2002. The conceptual and methodological
underpinnings of this research program were based on a social-ecological approach. The social
impact of this model and its empirical strategy represents an evidence of the advantages that a
multidisciplinary approach can provide to promote healthy behaviours in vulnerable populations.
4100.4 Effect of the use of alcohol and cigarettes on cognitive function, Takeshi Hatta, Emi
Ito, Yasuhiro Ito, Naoko Nagahara, Kaori Karasawa, Nagoya University, Japan
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