The Handbook of Disgust Research
Modern Perspectives and Applications
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Open AccessDevelopment of a new health-related quality of life measure for people with diabetes who experience hypoglycaemia: the Hypo-RESOLVE QoL
Valid and reliable patient-reported outcome measures are vital for assessing disease impact, responsiveness to healthcare and the cost-effectiveness of interventions. A recent review has questioned the ability...
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Open AccessHypothetical versus experienced health state valuation: a qualitative study of adult general public views and preferences
Responses from hypothetical and experienced valuation tasks of health-related quality of life differ, yet there is limited understanding of why these differences exist, what members of the public think about t...
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Open AccessA comprehensive qualitative framework for health-related quality of life in Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a rare x-linked neuromuscular condition predominantly affecting boys and men. There is a paucity of research qualitatively detailing the lived experience of health-related ...
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Open AccessWhat Matters for Evaluating the Quality of Mental Healthcare? Identifying Important Aspects in Qualitative Focus Groups with Service Users and Frontline Mental Health Professionals
Evaluating quality in mental healthcare is essential for ensuring a high-quality experience for service users (SUs). Policy-defined quality indicators, however, risk misalignment with the perspectives of SUs a...
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Exploring the Issues of Valuing Child and Adolescent Health States Using a Mixed Sample of Adolescents and Adults
Preferences for child and adolescent health states used to generate health state utility values can be elicited from adults, young adults, adolescents, or combinations of these. This commentary paper provides ...
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Open AccessMeasuring carer quality of life in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a systematic review of the reliability and validity of self-report instruments using COSMIN
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a rare, progressive, life-limiting genetic neuromuscular condition that significantly impacts the quality of life of informal caregivers. Carer quality of life is measured using ...
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Transforming challenges into opportunities: conducting health preference research during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
The disruptions to health research during the COVID-19 pandemic are being recognized globally, and there is a growing need for understanding the pandemic’s impact on the health and health preferences of patien...
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Open AccessValuing child and adolescent health: a qualitative study on different perspectives and priorities taken by the adult general public
Quantitative health preference research has shown that different “perspectives”, defined here as who is imagined to be experiencing particular health states, impact stated preferences. This qualitative project...
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Open AccessThe role of response domain and scale label in the quantitative interpretation of patient-reported outcome measure response options
Uncertainties exist in how respondents interpret response options in patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), particularly across different domains and for different scale labels. The current study assessed ...
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An Afterword on Future Directions in Disgust Research: A Global Pandemic, a Divided World, and an Environmental Catastrophe
There is a notable irony in editing a book about an emotion that specifically evolved to help us avoid getting sick during the emergence of the first global pandemic in a century. This irony notwithstanding, h...
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Researching the Revolting: An Introduction to the Handbook
From Darwin at the end of the nineteenth century to the Three-Domain model at the start of the 21st, the scientific study of disgust got off to a slow start. Today, though, we are living through an explosion i...
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Disgust and Consumer Behaviour
From the selling of horse and dog meat to bidding for people’s organs, disgust acts as an affective constraint on consumer markets. As an emotion that evolved to motivate rejection, it is often the last thing ...
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Open AccessMeasuring quality of life in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a systematic review of the content and structural validity of commonly used instruments
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an inherited X-linked neuromuscular disorder. A number of questionnaires are available to assess quality of life in DMD, but there are concerns about their validity. This s...
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Disgust propensity has a causal link to the stigmatization of people with cancer
Disgust-driven stigma may be motivated by an assumption that a stigmatized target presents a disease threat, even in the absence of objective proof. Accordingly, even non-contagious diseases, such as cancer, c...
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Open AccessIndividual differences in emotion regulation moderate the associations between empathy and affective distress
Individual differences in empathy can have positive and negative psychological outcomes. Yet, individual differences in the processing and regulation of empathy-induced emotion have not been fully explored wit...
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Effect of Partners’ Disgust Responses on Psychological Wellbeing in Cancer Patients
The aim of this study was to explore quantitatively the relationship between disgust responses in cancer patients and their partners, and in turn their relationship to patients’ psychological well-being. We re...
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The effect of disgust-related side-effects on symptoms of depression and anxiety in people treated for cancer: a moderated mediation model
As maladaptive disgust responses are linked to mental health problems, and cancer patients may experience heightened disgust as a result of treatments they receive, we explored the associations between disgust...
