Francesco Pagnini
Biographic Data
| ID | 130599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francesco Pagnini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francesco |
| FAMILY NAME | Pagnini |
| SIGNATURE | PAGNINI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1612-4211 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Illness Expectations and Asthma Symptoms: A 6‐Month Longitudinal Study
BACKGROUND: After receiving a diagnosis, individuals often develop expectations about how their condition will evolve. This cognitive framework, known as 'Illness Expectations' (IEs), encompasses future-oriented beliefs regarding the course of the illness and its symptoms. In chronic conditions such as asthma, IEs may play a critical role in shaping patient-reported outcomes and clinical markers of disease progression. This study aims to empirica…
Multidimensional determinants of active and healthy aging trajectories: A position paper from the Age-It Research Program
Spoke 4 of Age-It highlights the need for multidimensional, One Health-based strategies that integrate traditional health determinants with digital innovations. By combining evidence-based interventions with user-centered e-health platforms, scalable and inclusive solutions can be developed to support healthy aging. These efforts provide policymakers and healthcare systems with tools to foster resilience, mitigate frailty, and enhance quality of …
Enacting the mind/body connection: The role of self-induced placebo mechanisms
Placebo effects are beneficial mind-body outcomes derived from beliefs or expectations, not explainable as the consequence of active medical treatments. These phenomena have long been considered a result of external manipulation, generally obtained with deceptive strategies (e.g., fake pills) or suggestions. Open-label placebos showed promising results, but even in that case, the individual has a passive role: they are not actively engaged in pro…
Social anxiety: Topics and emotions shared on Reddit before and during the coronavirus pandemic
Imagining flying increases jumping performance in volleyball players: A pilot study
The study aimed to examine the effect of mental imagery on sports performance. Specifically, it was tested whether imagining flying (i.e., air travel) increases jumping performance in a group of female volleyball players. The study included 46 female young athletes (mean age = 15.23 years; standard deviation = 2.4) divided into two groups: the experimental group viewed a three-dimensional video that simulated a flying experience, while the contro…
Placebo and Nocebo Effects as Bayesian-Brain Phenomena: The Overlooked Role of Likelihood and Attention
The Bayesian-brain framework applied to placebo responses and other mind–body interactions suggests that the effects on the body result from the interaction between priors, such as expectations and learning, and likelihood, such as somatosensorial information. Significant research in this area focuses on the role of the priors, but the relevance of the likelihood has been surprisingly overlooked. One way of manipulating the relevance of the likel…
A Self-Help Virtual Therapeutic Experience Intervention for Overcoming Psychological Distress Related to the Covid-19 Pandemic: Results From the European Multicentric Covid Feel Good Trial
OBJECTIVE: The general objective of the current study was to investigate the efficacy of a novel self-help virtual therapeutic experience (specifically, the COVID Feel Good intervention) in lowering the psychological burden experienced during the COVID-19 lockdowns in four European countries. METHODS: We focused on participants recruited from June 2020 to May 2021 in the context of a European multicenter project including four university/academic…
How do people with MND and caregivers experience a digital mental health intervention? A qualitative study
People with MND and caregivers can find digital mental health interventions useful. Intervention accessibility and flexibility are important for developing acceptable and engaging interventions for MND
Promoting Acceptance and Adherence to Noninvasive Ventilation in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial
OBJECTIVE: People with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may suffer from anxiety, depression, low quality of life, and cognitive deficits that could play a role in their clinical conditions. These situations could be worsened during the adaptation process to a new treatment such as noninvasive ventilation (NIV), which is often rejected or inappropriately used. The study aimed to analyze the impact of a brief psychological support inter…
Mindful Age and Technology: A Qualitative Analysis of a Tablet/Smartphone App Intervention Designed for Older Adults
The global population is aging while modern healthcare systems are responding with limited success to the growing care demands of the senior population. Capitalizing on recent technological advancements, new ways to improve older adults’ quality of life have recently been implemented. The current study investigated, from a qualitative point of view, the utility of a mindfulness-based smartphone application for older adults. A description of the o…
Psychotherapists’ emotional reactions to patients’ personality trait in personality disorder treatment settings: An exploratory study
The present study confirms the value of therapists' emotional response as a useful tool in understanding psychological processes related to clinical practice highlighting its context-dependent dimension
Promoting psycho-social wellbeing for engaging inflammatory bowel disease patients in their care: An Italian consensus statement
The main conclusion is the necessity of the early detection of - and, in case of need, intervention on- psycho-social needs of patients in order to achieve patient involvement in IBD care
Mindfulness-Based Interventions for the Improvement of Well-Being in People With Multiple Sclerosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Covid Feel Good—An Easy Self-Help Virtual Reality Protocol to Overcome the Psychological Burden of Coronavirus
The goal of this protocol is for VR to become the "surgical mask" of mental health treatment. Although surgical masks do not provide the wearer with a reliable level of protection against the coronavirus compared with FFP2 or FFP3 masks, surgical masks are very effective in protecting others from the wearer's respiratory emissions. The goal of the VR protocol is the same: not necessarily to solve complex mental health problems but rather to impro…
The potential role of illness expectations in the progression of medical diseases
To what extent can one's mind promote direct changes to the body? Can one's beliefs about the body become a physical reality, without mediating effects from behaviors? Specifically, can medical symptoms and the course of a disease be directly affected by a person's mindset about the illness?There is a vast literature about placebo and nocebo effects, that promote physical changes by creating the expectation of a change through a primer (for examp…
Mindful navigation for pedestrians: Improving engagement with augmented reality
Facebook Use as Access Facilitator for Consulting Psychology
ObjectivesThe current study aimed to examine the reasons that lead individuals to seek online psychological consultations instead of in‐person assistance, and to explore the effect of a single 30‐min Facebook chat conversation in increasing willingness to ask for professional help.MethodsA total of 284 participants attended a brief Facebook‐based psychological consultation. Of these patients, 259 individuals completed a baseline survey questionna…
Depression and disease progression in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A comprehensive meta-regression analysis
Depression in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a fatal and progressive neurodegenerative disorder, is a serious issue with important clinical consequences. However, physical impairment may confound the diagnosis when using generic questionnaires. We conducted a comprehensive review of literature. Mean scores from depression questionnaires were meta-regressed on study-level mean time since onset of symptoms. Data from 103 studies (3190 s…
Respiratory function of people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and caregiver distress level: A correlational study
BACKGROUND: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a rare, fatal neurodegenerative disorder with no curative treatment characterized by degeneration of motor neurons involving a progressive impairment of motor and respiratory functions. Most patients die of ventilator respiratory failure. Caregivers have a great influence on the patient"s quality of life as well as on the quality of care. Home influence of the caregiver on patient care is notable…
A new approach for psychological consultation: The psychologist at the chemist's
The interest and participation of the population was high and this initiative intercepted an unexpressed requirement for psychological support. Free access and home proximity, were the main reasons for accessing this specific service. Subjects were mostly re-directed to appropriate services, while about a third of the sample addressed and resolved their problem with the psychologist in the chemist's shop.These encouraging results suggest the bene…
Mindful navigation for pedestrians: Improving engagement with augmented reality
Multidimensional determinants of active and healthy aging trajectories: A position paper from the Age-It Research Program
Spoke 4 of Age-It highlights the need for multidimensional, One Health-based strategies that integrate traditional health determinants with digital innovations. By combining evidence-based interventions with user-centered e-health platforms, scalable and inclusive solutions can be developed to support healthy aging. These efforts provide policymakers and healthcare systems with tools to foster resilience, mitigate frailty, and enhance quality of …
Depression and disease progression in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A comprehensive meta-regression analysis
Depression in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a fatal and progressive neurodegenerative disorder, is a serious issue with important clinical consequences. However, physical impairment may confound the diagnosis when using generic questionnaires. We conducted a comprehensive review of literature. Mean scores from depression questionnaires were meta-regressed on study-level mean time since onset of symptoms. Data from 103 studies (3190 s…
Respiratory function of people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and caregiver distress level: A correlational study
BACKGROUND: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a rare, fatal neurodegenerative disorder with no curative treatment characterized by degeneration of motor neurons involving a progressive impairment of motor and respiratory functions. Most patients die of ventilator respiratory failure. Caregivers have a great influence on the patient"s quality of life as well as on the quality of care. Home influence of the caregiver on patient care is notable…
A new approach for psychological consultation: The psychologist at the chemist's
The interest and participation of the population was high and this initiative intercepted an unexpressed requirement for psychological support. Free access and home proximity, were the main reasons for accessing this specific service. Subjects were mostly re-directed to appropriate services, while about a third of the sample addressed and resolved their problem with the psychologist in the chemist's shop.These encouraging results suggest the bene…
Facebook Use as Access Facilitator for Consulting Psychology
ObjectivesThe current study aimed to examine the reasons that lead individuals to seek online psychological consultations instead of in‐person assistance, and to explore the effect of a single 30‐min Facebook chat conversation in increasing willingness to ask for professional help.MethodsA total of 284 participants attended a brief Facebook‐based psychological consultation. Of these patients, 259 individuals completed a baseline survey questionna…
Depression and disease progression in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A comprehensive meta-regression analysis
Depression in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a fatal and progressive neurodegenerative disorder, is a serious issue with important clinical consequences. However, physical impairment may confound the diagnosis when using generic questionnaires. We conducted a comprehensive review of literature. Mean scores from depression questionnaires were meta-regressed on study-level mean time since onset of symptoms. Data from 103 studies (3190 s…
Mindful navigation for pedestrians: Improving engagement with augmented reality
The potential role of illness expectations in the progression of medical diseases
To what extent can one's mind promote direct changes to the body? Can one's beliefs about the body become a physical reality, without mediating effects from behaviors? Specifically, can medical symptoms and the course of a disease be directly affected by a person's mindset about the illness?There is a vast literature about placebo and nocebo effects, that promote physical changes by creating the expectation of a change through a primer (for examp…
Mindfulness-Based Interventions for the Improvement of Well-Being in People With Multiple Sclerosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Covid Feel Good—An Easy Self-Help Virtual Reality Protocol to Overcome the Psychological Burden of Coronavirus
The goal of this protocol is for VR to become the "surgical mask" of mental health treatment. Although surgical masks do not provide the wearer with a reliable level of protection against the coronavirus compared with FFP2 or FFP3 masks, surgical masks are very effective in protecting others from the wearer's respiratory emissions. The goal of the VR protocol is the same: not necessarily to solve complex mental health problems but rather to impro…
Psychotherapists’ emotional reactions to patients’ personality trait in personality disorder treatment settings: An exploratory study
The present study confirms the value of therapists' emotional response as a useful tool in understanding psychological processes related to clinical practice highlighting its context-dependent dimension
Promoting psycho-social wellbeing for engaging inflammatory bowel disease patients in their care: An Italian consensus statement
The main conclusion is the necessity of the early detection of - and, in case of need, intervention on- psycho-social needs of patients in order to achieve patient involvement in IBD care
Promoting Acceptance and Adherence to Noninvasive Ventilation in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial
OBJECTIVE: People with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may suffer from anxiety, depression, low quality of life, and cognitive deficits that could play a role in their clinical conditions. These situations could be worsened during the adaptation process to a new treatment such as noninvasive ventilation (NIV), which is often rejected or inappropriately used. The study aimed to analyze the impact of a brief psychological support inter…
Mindful Age and Technology: A Qualitative Analysis of a Tablet/Smartphone App Intervention Designed for Older Adults
The global population is aging while modern healthcare systems are responding with limited success to the growing care demands of the senior population. Capitalizing on recent technological advancements, new ways to improve older adults’ quality of life have recently been implemented. The current study investigated, from a qualitative point of view, the utility of a mindfulness-based smartphone application for older adults. A description of the o…
Placebo and Nocebo Effects as Bayesian-Brain Phenomena: The Overlooked Role of Likelihood and Attention
The Bayesian-brain framework applied to placebo responses and other mind–body interactions suggests that the effects on the body result from the interaction between priors, such as expectations and learning, and likelihood, such as somatosensorial information. Significant research in this area focuses on the role of the priors, but the relevance of the likelihood has been surprisingly overlooked. One way of manipulating the relevance of the likel…
A Self-Help Virtual Therapeutic Experience Intervention for Overcoming Psychological Distress Related to the Covid-19 Pandemic: Results From the European Multicentric Covid Feel Good Trial
OBJECTIVE: The general objective of the current study was to investigate the efficacy of a novel self-help virtual therapeutic experience (specifically, the COVID Feel Good intervention) in lowering the psychological burden experienced during the COVID-19 lockdowns in four European countries. METHODS: We focused on participants recruited from June 2020 to May 2021 in the context of a European multicenter project including four university/academic…
How do people with MND and caregivers experience a digital mental health intervention? A qualitative study
People with MND and caregivers can find digital mental health interventions useful. Intervention accessibility and flexibility are important for developing acceptable and engaging interventions for MND
Enacting the mind/body connection: The role of self-induced placebo mechanisms
Placebo effects are beneficial mind-body outcomes derived from beliefs or expectations, not explainable as the consequence of active medical treatments. These phenomena have long been considered a result of external manipulation, generally obtained with deceptive strategies (e.g., fake pills) or suggestions. Open-label placebos showed promising results, but even in that case, the individual has a passive role: they are not actively engaged in pro…
Social anxiety: Topics and emotions shared on Reddit before and during the coronavirus pandemic
Imagining flying increases jumping performance in volleyball players: A pilot study
The study aimed to examine the effect of mental imagery on sports performance. Specifically, it was tested whether imagining flying (i.e., air travel) increases jumping performance in a group of female volleyball players. The study included 46 female young athletes (mean age = 15.23 years; standard deviation = 2.4) divided into two groups: the experimental group viewed a three-dimensional video that simulated a flying experience, while the contro…
Illness Expectations and Asthma Symptoms: A 6‐Month Longitudinal Study
BACKGROUND: After receiving a diagnosis, individuals often develop expectations about how their condition will evolve. This cognitive framework, known as 'Illness Expectations' (IEs), encompasses future-oriented beliefs regarding the course of the illness and its symptoms. In chronic conditions such as asthma, IEs may play a critical role in shaping patient-reported outcomes and clinical markers of disease progression. This study aims to empirica…
Multidimensional determinants of active and healthy aging trajectories: A position paper from the Age-It Research Program
Spoke 4 of Age-It highlights the need for multidimensional, One Health-based strategies that integrate traditional health determinants with digital innovations. By combining evidence-based interventions with user-centered e-health platforms, scalable and inclusive solutions can be developed to support healthy aging. These efforts provide policymakers and healthcare systems with tools to foster resilience, mitigate frailty, and enhance quality of …
Psychology (16 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Psychiatry (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Psychotherapist (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Anxiety (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works)