social support

..The prevalence of obesity has increased substantially over the past 30 years. We performed a quantitative analysis of the nature and extent of the person-to-person spread of obesity as a possible factor contributing to the obesity epidemic...

..We studied to what extent internet-based cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) programs for symptoms of depression and anxiety are effective...

..The behavior spread farther and faster across clustered-lattice networks than across corresponding random networks...

..0 functionality...

..The quality and quantity of individuals' social relationships has been linked not only to mental health but also to both morbidity and mortality...

..Within this model we find that networks percolate more easily if they are assortative and that they are also more robust to vertex removal...

..We examined the extent of the person-to-person spread of smoking behavior and the extent to which groups of widely connected people quit together...

CONTEXT: Depression and low perceived social support (LPSS) after myocardial infarction (MI) are associated with higher morbidity and mortality, but little is known about whether this excess risk can be reduced through treatment...

..We conducted a population-based prospective survey of mixing patterns in eight European countries using a common paper-diary methodology...

..This study reviewed Twitter status updates mentioning "antibiotic(s)" to determine overarching categories and explore evidence of misunderstanding or misuse of antibiotics...

..First, does engagement with program content predict long-term outcomes? Second, which users are most likely to drop out or disengage from the program? Third, do particular intervention strategies enhance engagement?..

..Although risk factors for self-harm are well established, aspects that protect people from engaging in self-harm need to be further explored...

..However, little is known about the distribution and use of different kinds of eHealth tools across the population or within population subgroups...

..0 theme issue and sponsors a conference on "How Social Networking and Web 2.0 changes Health, Health Care, Medicine and Biomedical Research", to stimulate and encourage research in these five areas...

..We hope to contribute to a dialogue among researchers from across the physical and social sciences who share a common interest in understanding the antecedents and consequences of network phenomena...

..The findings also suggest the importance of examining the interrelationships between socio-economic status, social capital and mental health for community-dwelling adults...

..A history of child sexual abuse and adult abuse, social support and health promoting self-care behaviors were the psychosocial factors studied...

..This study examines whether attitudes, social support and environmental perceptions are associated with active commuting behaviour in school children and whether ..

..with low resources, especially if such connections entail role strain associated with obligations to provide social support to others. Third, egocentric networks are nested within a broader structure of social relationships...

..There is a paucity of research examining utilization patterns of online weight loss programs, particularly in the rapidly expanding direct-to-consumer arena...

..We evaluated the social network structure of QuitNet, one of the largest online communities for behavior change, and compared its characteristics to other known social networks...

..However, the impact of some Internet-mediated programs is limited by high attrition rates. Online communities that allow participants to communicate with each other by posting and reading messages may decrease participant attrition...

..GTH treatment effects were mediated by self-efficacy, self-regulation and social support; self-regulation mediated self-efficacy...

..the associations of self-efficacy, outcome expectancies, perceived barriers, self-regulatory behaviors and social support with physical activity. Data from 116 married community-dwelling middle-aged and young-old couples (M = 58...

..To investigate the efficacy of an Internet weight maintenance program...

..This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a structured behavioral weight loss website (VTrim) vs. a commercial weight loss website (eDiets.com)...

..When they do so, the resultant risk for cardiac events is often substantially elevated, equaling that associated with previously established risk factors for CAD, such as hypertension and hypercholesterolemia...

..The community service setting represents a promising access point for engaging disadvantaged smokers for cessation and further research exploring the effectiveness of support delivered in this setting is clearly warranted...

..Many patients who report high levels of distress are not taking advantage of available supportive resources. Barriers to such use, and factors predicting distress and use of psychosocial care, require further exploration...

..study of adolescents was to investigate socioeconomic differences in adult depression and in the domain of social support from adolescence to adulthood...

..The amount of lead time will depend on features of the outbreak and the network at hand. The method could in principle be generalized to other biological, psychological, informational, or behavioral contagions that spread in networks...

b>Social support has been reliably related to lower rates of morbidity and mortality. An important issue concerns the physiological mechanisms by which support influences such health endpoints...

....

..In the absence of global perturbations, average network properties appear to approach an equilibrium state, whereas individual properties are unstable...

..Web-assisted tobacco interventions (WATIs) offer a potentially low-cost way to reach millions of smokers who wish to quit smoking and to test various forms of online assistance for use/utilization and user satisfaction...

..Within the model, age, race, social support, self-efficacy, and self-regulation contributed to participants' physical activity levels, but outcome ..

..As a demonstration of the power of the approach, we present the first empirical large-scale verification of the long-standing structural balance theory, by focusing on the specific multiplex network of friendship and enmity relations...

..street-based) and how those ties are maintained (face-to-face vs. via social networking technology)...

..Effective policy aimed at reducing alcohol consumption among adolescents would consider these significant peer effects...

..Risk factors were smoking, diet, exercise, alcohol consumption, and measures of social support. In no case was risk factor exposure more affected by the socio-economic position of a female partner than ..

..Current abuse, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, social isolation, lack of social support, and cessation of breastfeeding all have negative health effects for mothers and babies.

..Nevertheless our study has the limitation that it did not evaluate the sensitivity to the changes of the patients' QoL in the long term follow-up, and we will supplement it in our further study...

....

..In conclusion, this longitudinal multilevel study provides support for the hypothesis that exposure to low social capital at work may be detrimental to the health of employees...

..Behavioral intervention is urgently needed and should take a multilevel approach, emphasizing behavioral skills training and promoting a supportive social/working environment...

..Interdisciplinary multi-method investigations and analyses are called for in order to unravel mechanisms whereby social capital and mental health might be meaningfully associated...

..To investigate whether "network effects" can be detected for health outcomes that are unlikely to be subject to network phenomena...

..Its Eastern province of Nangarhar is part of the region that originated the Taliban movement. This may have had a distinct impact on the living circumstances and mental health condition of the province's population...

..There was a weak association between social position and weight status. Overweight youth nominated more friends but were nominated as friends less frequently than their normal weight peers...

..We follow adolescents over time to examine whether the role of adolescent peers persists in affecting individual behaviors as adolescents transition into adulthood...

..To assess the prevalence and predictors of perceived unmet needs among women diagnosed with breast cancer, with a particular focus on the impact of location (rural/urban)...

..To evaluate the effectiveness of telephone based peer support in the prevention of postnatal depression...

..relationships are important in human resource management, little is understood about the nature of workplace social support in a disability context, or what features of support are important to the success of return-to-work programs...

..Additional factors, such as exercise-induced affect, social support, and value judgments, have also been identified as having the potential to influence adherence to activity...

..This study reviews the evidence for effects of combined intervention programmes for both the informal caregiver and the person with dementia...

..The dominance of poverty related factors, as opposed to social capital, prompts renewed attention to the explanatory mechanisms that link income inequality and poor mental health...

To examine the effect of religion and spirituality on social support, psychological functioning, and physical health in medically ill hospitalized older adults.

..Research that has focused solely on detection of distress and its correlates may paint an incomplete and potentially misleading picture of adjustment to cancer...

This meta-analysis integrates results of 87 studies on the associations of perceived social support, network size, and marital status with cancer survival...

..To elucidate risk factors for high state anxiety in women referred for colposcopy...

Depression, social support, and life events were assessed in a sample of African-American and Hispanic women (N = 148) with uncomplicated pregnancies. Over half (51%) showed elevated depressive symptoms...

This study presents the interrelationships between stressful life events, motives for Internet use, social support, and the use of the Internet among a sample of adolescents and children aged 8 to 18 (N = 717)...

b>Social support can influence physical activity among some individuals. This study examined the effect that social support has on adolescents' physical activity and their perceived barriers and benefits to exercising.

..designated as extremely important were distinguished from other VIPs in terms of providing a higher level of social support and a higher frequency of contact. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.

..05). These data suggest that childhood may be a formative stage for the development of physical activity cognitions and that promoting physical activity in children may require normative and control-based intervention...

..This paper describes the development of mental health first aid guidelines that inform community members on how to help someone who may have, or may be developing, a drinking problem (i.e., alcohol abuse or dependence)...

..To date, the relatively few controlled trials of Web-based smoking cessation programs have been limited by short follow-up intervals...

..The results suggest that network connectivity is important for young males (ages 1-6) but less so for older males of high status (ages 10-15) and that it is difficult to explain present success without reference to social history...

..Each component of the proposed model is a testable hypothesis. As we develop viable human support models, these should be manualized to facilitate dissemination...

..These new sources of knowledge, support, and engagement have become important for patients living with chronic disease, yet the quality and content of the information provided in these digital arenas are poorly understood...

..Social network sites have been growing in popularity across broad segments of Internet users, and are a convenient means to exchange information and support. Research on their use for health-related purposes is limited...

....

..As a concrete and illustrative example, the members of the 109th United States Senate are analyzed and it is demonstrated that the methods of construction and analysis are applicable to various other weighted networks...

b>Social support is an important resource for communities experiencing disasters. However, a disaster's nature (rapid- versus slow-onset, natural versus technological) may influence community-level responses...

The key focus of this longitudinal study in the Netherlands was to determine the role of social support (i.e...

..We conclude that a tailored, interactive Web-assisted cessation program can be an efficacious method for assisting adult ST users to quit...

b>Social support can influence treatment adherence of patients with chronic illnesses, which may explain the positive effects of social support on heart failure (HF) outcomes.

Stability in perceived social support and associations between social support and health-related quality of life for a sample of 41 adult outpatients living with HIV/AIDS (PHA) in Canada were assessed longitudinally...

..To examine the relationship between autonomous motivation and diabetes self-care activities among individuals with diabetes...

..in a prospective cohort of workers on long-term sickness absence to investigate whether associations between perceived work attitude, self-efficacy and perceived social support and time to RTW differ across different health conditions.

According to the buffer hypothesis, social support or social network may affect mental health by buffering the negative effect of stress on mental health...

..However, few people have the knowledge and skills required to assist. Simple guidelines may help members of the public to offer appropriate support when it is needed...

..to investigate if the increased risk of disability onset among older people who live alone could possibly be moderated by either high social participation or by being satisfied with the social relations...

..Weight loss appears to be an effective method for primary prevention of hypertension. However, the long-term effects of weight loss on blood pressure have not been extensively studied...

..We end by discussing the clear implications this framework holds for stigma reduction, even in the face of conflicting results...

..To examine the relationship between perceived family support and other selected correlates of physical activity (PA) with changes in PA over time...

A study was conducted to determine if an intervention could change social support and social-ecological resources of post-menopausal women diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, and if those changes mediated the intervention's effects on health ..

..Results suggest that factors such as income, time available for interaction with the child, and social support predict parenting stress much better than do aspects of child functioning...

..This article explores the experiences of family carers of older people in using support services in six European countries: Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Sweden, and the UK...

..The purpose of this review is to summarize factors influencing outcomes in carers of stroke survivors...

..The review discusses why, given this evidence, carers fail to take advantage of interventions designed to help them and those who participate derive only limited psychological benefits...

..To test whether early-life factors (education, height, father's social position) and midlife social, behavioral, and psychosocial factors were associated with entering older age without disease and with good functioning...

To assess the effectiveness of including a social support intervention ('buddy system') in a group treatment programme to aid smoking cessation.

..persistent in stroke survivors, yet it is not known how mobility deficits, fitness, or other factors, such as social support, relate to fatigue severity, or whether subjective fatigue contributes to reduced ambulatory activity...

There is increasing awareness of the contribution of perceived social support (PSS) to emotional and physical well-being...

This paper reviews the empirical research literature on the role of social support in children and adolescents with diabetes...

..We recommend steps to harness the benefits of informal systems of prenatal care in Latino communities to meet the increasing needs of pregnant Latina women...

..Evidence for the separate benefit to victims of social support, advocacy and non-professional mentoring suggested that a combined model may reduce the levels of violence, ..

..This paper explores the ways family members reconstruct meaning through seizing possibilities for positive caregiving in nursing homes...

..To assess the interplay between hope and the information provided by health care professionals...

..To evaluate and compare the use of coping strategies and quality of life (QoL) among individuals with temporary and permanent stomas...

..health outcomes, protective health tjehaviors, risk factors for substance use during and after pregnancy, and social support for mothers...

..This five year cluster unit randomized trial will develop and evaluate a social support intervention targeting both men and women to increase Pap testing decision making and behavior among Chamorro, ..

....

..to which neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) and key psychosocial factors (discrimination, stress, and social support) impact coronary heart disease (CHD) in African Americans in Mississippi...

..Psychosocial risk factors such as loneliness, hostility, depressive symptoms, perceived stress, and low/ social support have also been shown to predict high blood pressure and/or hypertension, but distinctions among these ..

..Psychosocial risk factors such as loneliness, hostility, depressive symptoms, perceived stress, and low/ social support have also been shown to predict high blood pressure and/or hypertension, but distinctions among these ..

..Based on our pilot studies, we believe perceived social support is a significant patient-related factor in TKR decision-making that varies between groups and may contribute ..

....

..This study examines how consumers share DTC personal genomic information online and create new research communities and their potential impact on large scale population based genomic research. ..

b>Social support is an important but frequently under-examined factor in smoking cessation...

..This study will evaluate a model for undertaking HIV prevention within high-risk social networks, a promising approach understudied in the field. ..

..Analyses of social network variables at posttreatment indicated that the NS conditions did not reduce social support for drinking relative to the CaseM condition, but did increase social support for abstinence, as well as AA ..

..ages 9-12) and their parents, life events between 1993 and 2003-2004, current exposure to war-related events, social support, and current measures of psychological distress and health-related symptoms collected in 2003...

..of behavior change;2) One-on- one peer mentoring is a flexible, cost-efficient means of increasing DM specific social support and may be particularly salient in minority communities;and 3) Matching patients with poorly controlled DM ..

..assess the effectiveness of an intervention involving education, enhancement of self-efficacy, and telephone social support in preserving and improving functional status in 180 patients from diverse socio-demographic backgrounds with ..

..These behaviors are shaped by social environmental resource factors, including social support, loneliness and neighborhood social cohesion...

..We hypothesize that that prenatal maternal stress and low social support increase levels of proinflammatory cytokines during pregnancy and that these changes increase the probability ..

..and cultural transformations, and where individuals have long relied on their social networks for social support and trusted advice...

..and cultural transformations, and where individuals have long relied on their social networks for social support and trusted advice...

..and cultural transformations, and where individuals have long relied on their social networks for social support and trusted advice...

..s. ..

..Because there was considerable variation in POW and wartime experience during the Civil War, the data provide several control groups for examining the effects of extreme stress. ..

..Analyses of social network variables at posttreatment indicated that the NS conditions did not reduce social support for drinking relative to the CaseM condition, but did increase social support for abstinence, as well as AA ..