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Gozde Ozakinci

Research Interests

My research aims to answer the following questions:

(i) How can we improve the health communication process so that optimal understanding of the health risk by the patients and healthy people alike can be obtained?

(ii) What are the psychological processes and factors that contribute to the gaps between the message communicated by health care professionals and that message received by the patients and healthy people?

(iii) What are the psychological processes and factors that contribute to the emotional reactions (e.g., worry, fear, relief, etc.) exhibited in response to experiencing physical illness (e.g., cancer) as well as health risk information (e.g., receiving personal cancer risk information)?

(iv) What are the psychological processes and factors that contribute to medical decisions and health behaviours?

Recent health-related publications

Thomas, G., Humphris, G., Ozakinci, G., O'Brien, K., Roberts, S.A., Hopkins, M., Brabin, L. (in press). A qualitative study of pharmacists' views on offering chlamydia screening to women requesting emergency hormonal contraception. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Humphris, G., Ozakinci, G. The AFTER intervention: A structured psychological approach to reduce fears of recurrence in patients with head and neck cancer (2008). British Journal of Health Psychology, 13(2), 223-230.

Pagato, S., Spring, B., Coups, E., Mulvaney, S., Coutu, M.F., Ozakinci, G. (2007) Barriers and facilitators of evidence-based practice perceived by behavioral science health professionals. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 63(7), 695-705.

Ozakinci, G., Humphris, G., Steel, M. (2007). Provision of breast cancer risk information to women at lower end of the familial risk spectrum. Community Genetics, 10(1), 41-44.

Ozakinci, G. & Weinman, J. (2006). Determinants of condom use intentions and behavior among Turkish youth: A theoretically based investigation. Journal of HIV/AIDS Prevention in Children & Youth, 7(1), 73-95.

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