Finally, interventions for smoking and depressive symptoms used cognitive behavioral strategies to revise perceptions that sustained the woman's risk status.
to examine perceptions of mothers experiencing postpartum depression utilising the revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R), to explore relationships between illness perceptions, depression severity and perceptions of maternal bonding, and to assess the psychometric properties within this population.
Illness perception was assessed with the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R).
An existing, well-validated quantitative measure of illness perceptions in chronic pain conditions (the revised Illness Perception Questionnaire, chronic pain version, [ 26]) was used to develop open-ended questions to encourage participants to reflect on and fully elucidate their experiences and beliefs in relation to the back pain condition and work.
To obtain adapted versions for the Spanish population of a specific version of the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire Revised (IPQ-Re) and the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (BIPQ), conceptually and linguistically equivalent to the original questionnaires.
For this evaluation changes in mastery are assessed by the subscales personal control and treatment control of the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R) [ 33] and changes in perceptions of diabetes and social support by the subscales perceived severity and perceived social support from a significant other of the Multidimensional Diabetes Questionnaire (MDQ) [ 34].
Questions about risk perception will include perceived causal beliefs, consequences and control of diabetes, which were derived from the revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R) [ 37].
A form for sociodemographic and clinical data and the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R) were used.
The interviews consisted of a number of measures including the migraine disability assessment score (MIDAS) [11], the Headache Impact test (HIT -6 [6, 12] tHIT -6pital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) [12], and the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R) [14].
Causes of the illness dimension of the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R): a translation into Portuguese from Portugal by Figueiras et al. (2002) was used in order to assess illness representations according to the theoretical model of self-regulation of health behavior proposed by Leventhal et al. (1984 20033).
