Noa Vilchinsky

Noa Vilchinsky
Bar Ilan University | BIU · Department of Psychology

PhD

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January 2015 - present
Bar Ilan University
Position
  • Professor (Associate)
January 1998 - January 2009
Meir Medical Center
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  • Head Psychologist

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Publications (78)
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How does caregiving affect health and well-being and what resources help caregivers? This book provides a synthesis of psychological research on caregiver stress and brings attention to the personal, social and structural factors that affect caregivers' well-being and as well as recent behavioral interventions to enhance health. © Tracey A. Revenso...
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Background The delay time from onset of symptoms of a myocardial infarction to seeking medical assistance can have life-threatening consequences. Women delay significantly more often than men do in calling for medical help, once symptoms of a myocardial infarction occur. Objectives The current qualitative study’s main aim was to explore psychosoci...
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Despite abundant literature on personality and stigma, the role of disability type in this relationship has remained unaddressed. In the current study, we examined whether the relationship between observers' openness to experience and agreeableness on the one hand, and social distance on the other, was moderated by the target person's type of disab...
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Background: Globally, economically developed countries face similar ageing demographics and the challenge of a ‘care gap’, yet they vary due to different care and formal support systems, and different cultural and societal norms around illness and care. The aim of this exploratory study was to examine cross-country variations in caregiver motivatio...
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Informal care is a key pillar of long-term care provision across Europe and will likely play an even greater role in the future. Thus, research that enhances our understanding of caregiving experiences becomes increasingly relevant. The ENTWINE iCohort Study examines the personal, psychological, social, economic, and geographic factors that shape c...
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Background Providing informal care can be experienced as stressful and lead to caregiver burden. Internet-based interventions, a specific form of eHealth, have proven to be a good option to support informal caregivers. SOSteniamoci, an internet-based intervention already tested in Lithuania, was translated and adapted for Italian caregivers. Objec...
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A left ventricular assist device (LVAD) is a mechanical device that treats advanced heart failure. Patients coping with an LVAD need extensive instrumental and medical support, which is usually provided by the spouse. Therefore, it seems that dyadic coping strategies play a crucial role as either mitigators or hinderers of couples’ illness manageme...
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The literature on coping with illness has for many years viewed only the patients as the focal point of attention and support, and only recently have the needs of patients’ caregivers been acknowledged as well. In addition, studies that have focused on factors contributing to caregiving partners’ burden in the context of chronic illness have assess...
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Introduction Providing informal care to one’s romantic partner who is ill may become a highly distressing and demanding task. Based on the innovative dyadic coping model, several support interventions have been developed to alleviate informal caregivers’ burden, including both caregivers’ and care receivers’ needs. Considering the unique challenges...
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Rationale Distance caregivers (DCGs) are a growing population with substantial contributions to informal care. While much is known about the provision of local informal care, evidence from the distance caregiving population is lacking. Objective: This mixed-method systematic review examines barriers and facilitators of distance caregiving, determin...
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Rationale The associations between COVID-19 cases/deaths levels and subsequent uptake of protective behaviors may reflect cognitive and behavioral responses to threat-relevant information. Objective Applying protection motivation theory (PMT) this study explored whether the number of total COVID-19 cases/deaths and general anxiety were associated...
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Objective Cardiac disease induced post-traumatic stress symptoms (CDI-PTSS) have been associated with negative consequences for patients’ mental and physical health. Identifying risk factors as well as potential buffers is necessary for understanding the development and maintenance of CDI-PTSS. The current study focused on the mediating and moderat...
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Informal caregivers are at risk of caregiver burden, and physical proximity to the care recipient may add to this negative outcome. Yet, individual differences in emotional proximity to the care recipient such as attachment orientations may contribute to caregivers’ comfort towards different degrees of physical proximity, leading to varying levels...
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Objective: Cardiac-disease-induced posttraumatic stress symptoms (CDI-PTSS) have been detected among a substantial number of cardiac patients. Even though patients' caregiving partners are also susceptible to CDI-PTSS, the research on cardiac partners' CDI-PTSS is scarce. Based on the ecological model of trauma and recovery, we investigated levels...
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Informal caregivers are those who provide unpaid care to a relative or friend with a chronic illness, disability or other long-lasting health or care need. Providing informal care in the context of chronic health conditions presents a significant global challenge. Examination of the determinants of informal caregivers’ behaviour, especially in term...
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Background Patterns of protective health behaviors, such as handwashing and sanitizing during the COVID-19 pandemic, may be predicted by macro-level variables, such as regulations specified by public health policies. Health behavior patterns may also be predicted by micro-level variables, such as self-regulatory cognitions specified by health behav...
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Background The COVID-19 pandemic has affected people’s engagement in health behaviors, especially those that protect individuals from SARS-CoV-2 transmission, such as handwashing/sanitizing. This study investigated whether adherence to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) handwashing guidelines (the outcome variable) was associated with the trajec...
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Background: The study explores informal caregivers’ (CG) and their care recipients’ (CR) experiences in the context of personal values and the way these shape motivations to care and care outcomes. Methods: A multi-method approach was applied to investigate the care experience and the significance of a value system and valuing processes within the...
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Introduction: Distance caregivers (DCGs) are a growing population with substantial contribution to informal care. While a reasonable amount is known on the determinants of motives and willingness to provide local informal care, and the local caregiver outcomes, reports for the distance caregiving population are lacking. An evidence synthesis of wha...
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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected people’s engagement in health behaviors, especially those that protect individuals from SARS-CoV-2 transmission, such as handwashing/sanitizing. Associations between the pandemic’s trajectory and engagement in the protective behavior of handwashing are unclear. This study investigated whether adherence...
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Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of disability and premature death worldwide, and they contribute substantially to rising health care costs. Ameliorating cardiac risk factors is the most effective way of minimizing CVDs' negative physical and psychological ramifications World Health Organization (WHO, 2021). By targeting those p...
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Introduction: Early detection is critical in the prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD). An at-risk population for cardiac disease-and conveniently approachable in terms of timing-is cardiac patients' offspring, at the moment when the parent is hospitalized for his or her own cardiac event. Based on the theoretical underpinning of life turning...
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Background: The experience of an acute coronary event (ACE), including early care and evaluation, can be a distressing and traumatic experience for patients and their romantic partners, who also act as caregivers. We hypothesized that, among partners who were present during the ACE, those who were also present during (1) transportation to the hospi...
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Objectives The fact that spousal support is not always beneficial for the recipient continues to intrigue researchers in the dyadic support field. One possible explanation for this phenomenon may be individual differences in attachment orientations, which might promote or, conversely, hinder the ability to capitalize on one’s partner’s support. We...
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Background: Patients with heart failure (HF) cope with a chronic, life-threatening, particularly disabling medical condition. Their well-being is considered to be at a greater risk than that of patients with any other cardiovascular disease, and their psychological distress is associated with a worse prognosis. These patients are often preoccupied...
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According to Edmondson's Enduring Somatic Threat (EST) Model of PTSD Due to Acute Life-Threatening Medical Events, the nature of PTSD in the context of illness may differ from the nature of "traditional" PTSD in that it includes future-oriented alongside past-related intrusive thoughts. Yet almost no empirical studies to date have assessed the puta...
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Purpose: Despite its proven efficacy, low participation rates in cardiac prevention and rehabilitation programs (CPRPs) prevail worldwide, especially among ethnic minorities. This is strongly evident in Israel's Arab minority. Since psychological distress has been found to be associated with CPRP participation and minorities are subjected to highe...
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One of the strongest means by which to reduce the risk of cardiac events’ recurrence and mortality is via restructuring major lifestyle habits and self-management of one’s risk factors. The therapeutic recommendations consists of smoking cessation, changing dietary choices, exercising on a regular basis, taking medication, and managing one’s psycho...
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The goal of the current systematic review was to provide an overview of the findings in the field of Cardiac-Disease-Induced Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (CDI-PTSD) in order to establish CDI-PTSD as a valid diagnostic entity for a wide spectrum of cardiac diseases and related medical procedures. In accordance with PRISMA guidelines, we conducted a...
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Objective: To achieve a comprehensive understanding of patients' adherence to medication following acute coronary syndrome (ACS), we assessed the possible moderating role played by attachment orientation on the effects of attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control (PBC), as derived from the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB; Ajzen,...
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Support often fails to lead to beneficial results. One personality factor which may differentiate between individuals' responses to support is an excessive sense of relational entitlement (SRE; the perception of what one deserves within a romantic relationship). We examined SRE as a moderator of the association between support matching and daily pe...
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Due to an oversight, the name of the author "Ahmad M. Alghraibeh" was incorrectly spelled as "Ahmad M. Aghraibeh." The correct version is shown above. The authors apologize for this oversight. This error does not affect the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated. Conflict of Interest Statement The au...
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Partners' support has been associated with both patients' increased and decreased inclination toward health-promoting behaviors. Our hypothesis for understanding this enigma is that it is the interplay between partners' manner of care provision and patients' ability to accept these care efforts that may best predict patients' adherence. Thus, the c...
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Objective: Theories about how couples help each other to cope with stress, such as the systemic transactional model of dyadic coping, suggest that the cultural context in which couples live influences how their coping behavior affects their relationship satisfaction. In contrast to the theoretical assumptions, a recent meta-analysis provides eviden...
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Background and objectives: partners' caregiving efforts are not always beneficial to both recipient and provider. Bowlby's conceptualization of caregiving style as a stable predisposition may clarify such caregiving effects. The relationship between caregiving style (compulsive and sensitive) and anxiety among couples coping with cardiac illness a...
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It is well established that a patient's partner can be deeply affected by the traumatizing nature of the patient's illness. Yet, no study to date has focused on post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) among partners of patients coping with an acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The current study's main aims were to address this gap and to evaluate cardiac...
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It is short sighted to study caregiving in the illness context without considering gender. Historically, caring for ill family members was an expected role for women within the privacy of the family. Caregiving is still commonly perceived to be a part of “women’s work” in societies throughout the world (Esplen, 2009). This perception persists despi...
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Informal (family) caregivers are the backbone of health and social care delivery in countries throughout the world, including developed countries. Providing informal care to ill family members or friends is a growing phenomenon as the population ages, the prevalence of chronic illness increases, and hospitalizations are shorter (National Alliance f...
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Suboptimal support of caregivers may have several deleterious consequences. These include turning to formal care needed to address the patient’s medical and personal care needs and possible services to maintain the mental and physical health of caregivers, both involve additional financial burden (Mittleman, 2005). As patients’ needs grow and their...
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There has been a burgeoning interest in caregiving with multiple reviews and meta-analyses having been published over the past 20 years (e.g., Li, & Loke, 2013b; Pinquart & Sörensen, 2003, 2007). Although the caregiving role is usually undertaken willingly and many caregivers find the caregiving experience rewarding and manage to cope with the stre...
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Some caregivers acclimate better than others to the caregiving role, even when coping with similar threats to a loved one’s health (Arenstein & Brown, 2014; Orgeta & Leung, 2015). Understanding why, through examining the underlying differences among individuals, may assist caregivers in adjusting to the difficult demands placed on them by serious c...
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For better or worse, emotions are intrinsic parts of the caregiving process (Pearlin & Skaff, 1995). Becoming a caregiver can happen gradually or unexpectedly, as a conscious choice or a forced obligation. In the process of adopting the caregiver role, both positive and negative emotions emerge and are expressed. This chapter will provide an overvi...
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Much of what is written in the field of coping with health and illness adopts Westernized views of health, illness, and healthcare. Similarly, caregiving research is commonly underpinned by models of stress and coping, which inherently presume Western conceptualizations of family and support. Given the challenge of the global aging population and t...
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Traditionally, the focus of the caregiving literature has been on the caregiver. Specifically, the caregiving situation is viewed as a potential stressor that might lead to negative outcomes in the caregiver, such as strain, burden, and depression. This concern for negative outcomes seems legitimate, as findings have indeed shown impaired physical...
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How does caregiving affect health and well-being and what resources help caregivers? This book provides a synthesis of psychological research on caregiver stress and brings attention to the personal, social and structural factors that affect caregivers' well-being and as well as recent behavioral interventions to enhance health.
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Objective: The current study explored whether attachment orientations moderate the associations between caregiver burden and depressive symptoms among women coping with their partners' first time acute coronary syndrome. The association between burden and depression was hypothesized to be stronger among caregivers high on anxious attachment than a...
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Background Participation rates of patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in efficacious cardiac prevention and rehabilitation programmes (CPRPs) are low, particularly in ethnic minorities. Few studies have evaluated the full array of potential barriers to participation in a multiethnic cohort with identical insurance coverage. Objective To ass...
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Objective: Research has shown that attitudes toward different disabilities form a hierarchy, with observers exhibiting more positive attitudes toward persons with physical disabilities than toward persons with psychiatric disabilities. In addition, investigations of attitudes toward persons with a disability indicate that they are often perceived...
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The sense of relational entitlement is the perception one has of what one deserves from one's partner, and it may play a crucial role in determining the quality of a couple's relationship. However, the concept was only recently subjected to empirical examination. The main goals of the current study were to continue the work initiated by the scale d...
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Health-promoting behaviours after acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are effective in preventing recurrence. Ethnicity impacts on such behaviours. We assessed the independent association of Arab vs. Jewish ethnicity with persistence of smoking and physical inactivity 6 months after ACS in central Israel. Prospective cohort study. During their admission...
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Despite well-established medical recommendations, many cardiac patients do not exercise regularly either independently or through formal cardiac prevention and rehabilitation programs (CPRP). This non-adherence is even more pronounced among minority ethnic groups. Illness cognition (IC), i.e. the way people perceive the situation they encounter, ha...
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Objectives: The current study examined the contribution of marital satisfaction to symptoms of depression among patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and their partners. Method: The sample comprised of 91 ACS male patients and their female partners. Data were collected at the time of initial hospitalization and 6 months later. Patients' an...
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Reports an error in "Spousal support and cardiac patients' distress: The moderating role of attachment orientation" by Noa Vilchinsky, Liat Haze-Filderman, Morton Leibowitz, Orna Reges, Abid Khaskia and Morris Mosseri (Journal of Family Psychology, 2010[Aug], Vol 24[4], 508-512). The Brief Symptoms Inventory (BSI) which was used (p. 510) ranged fro...
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Abstract Based on the predictions of the attachment theory and the Common Sense Model of illness perceptions, the current study focused on the role played by illness perceptions in explaining the path linking attachment orientations to negative affect during recovery from cardiac illness. We predicted two putative mechanisms: (1) illness perception...
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The current prospective study explored how male cardiac patients' perceptions of received support (i.e., active engagement, protective buffering, and overprotection) moderated the associations between female partners' perceptions of provided support and patients' recovery outcomes: psychological well-being, cholesterol levels, and smoking cessation...
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Type D personality is a risk indicator in cardiac patients. While both the validity and reliability of the Type D scale (DS14) have been confirmed in Western Europe, less attention has been paid to the subject in other nations. The purpose of this study was to examine the validity of the Hebrew version of the DS14 among a sample of cardiac patients...
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Based on the Person-Environment Fit Model, the current prospective study explored the contribution of the interaction between spouses' ways of providing support and patients' attachment orientations to the patients' levels of psychological distress 6 months after experiencing a first Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS). One hundred and eleven patients co...
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Attachment theory was employed as the theoretical framework for the purpose of examining attitudes toward people with disabilities. A total of 404 Jewish Israeli students without disabilities completed the Multidimensional Attitudes Scale Toward Persons With Disabilities (MAS) and the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale (ECR). Reading a scenar...
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This study aims to investigate the effect of observer's gender and target's gender on attitudes toward people who use wheelchairs due to a physical disability. Four hundred four Jewish Israeli students without disabilities completed the Multi-dimensional Attitudes Scale Toward Persons With Disabilities (MAS). Initially, confirmatory factor analysis...
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This study presents the development of a new instrument, the Multidimensional Attitudes Scale Toward Persons With Disabilities (MAS). Based on the multidimensional approach, it posits that attitudes are composed of three dimensions: affect, cognition, and behavior. The scale was distributed to a sample of 132 people along with a self-esteem measure...
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This study presents the development of a new instrument, the Multidimensional Attitudes Scale Toward Persons With Disabilities (MAS). Based on the multidimensional approach, it posits that attitudes are composed of three dimensions: affect, cognition, and behav-ior. The scale was distributed to a sample of 132 people along with a self-esteem mea-su...
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The present study investigated the relation between aspects of religiousness and negative and positive aspects of mental health and compared three models of the psychosocial processes that may underlie this relation. A sample of 668 Jewish Israeli students filled out multidimensional self-report measures of religious belief and behavior, religious...
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Objective: To examine attitudes toward the new Equal Rights for People With Disabilities Law in Israel among members of specific professional groups. Study Design: An exploratory, descriptive, cross-sectional survey, using convenience samples. Measure: The Disability Rights Attitude Scale-Israel (DRASI) was designed. Results: Factor analysis yielde...

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