4-6 September 2002, Sheffield Hallam University and University of Sheffield
"Facilitating Healthier Societies"
End of Conference Summary
On behalf of the Division of Health Psychology, I would like to thank Dr Maddy Arden, Dr Chris Armitage and the Local Conference Organising teams of Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Sheffield for hosting a superb conference in September 2002.
The conference was a great success with an excellent blend of quality research and Yorkshire hospitality. A full summary of delegates' conference evaluations can be downloaded here.
Dr Hilary Bekker, DHP National Conference Organiser (2001-2004)
e-mail: h.l.bekker@leeds.ac.uk
The keynote speakers were:
There were over 80 oral and 100 poster presentations including:
Symposia on current issues in adherence to treatment regimens; understanding and facilitating attendance for cervical screening; implementing evidence based changed in the health service; quality of life and paediatric cancer; using think aloud techniques to validate measures and intervention materials; employing interpretative phenomenological analysis to understand pain in health care.
Individual Papers on self-regulation theory to understand coping in urinary tract infections, chemotherapy, rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes; Theory of Planned Behaviour to explain smoking, diet, and immunisations; intervention evaluations that facilitate understanding of genetic conditions, sex education, blood transfusions, and encourage smoking cessation, breast feeding, cancer and heart disease screening; emotions, social support and coping in stress; exploring beliefs about depression, anxiety, suicide and unexplained physical symptoms.
Exhibitors included:
McGraw Hill Education; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; ILRT; OUP; Uniview Worldwide Ltd; Psychology Press; Pavilion Publishing; Sage; Aleph One Ltd; Wiley & Sons; Eurospan.
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