Perla Werner
Biographic Data
| ID | 230416 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Perla Werner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Perla |
| FAMILY NAME | Werner |
| SIGNATURE | WERNER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0432-290X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Latent Profile Analysis of Dementia-Related Anxiety
Validating the Hebrew Version of the Modified Dementia Worry Scale (H-MDWS)
Israeli Adults’ Non-take-up of Social Benefits
Even though welfare states aim to address citizens' social care needs, disparities in benefit distribution persist, leading to "non-take-up." Non-take-up is the phenomenon in which people who may be eligible for a benefit fail to apply for it or forgo it after applying. Based on a qualitative approach, this study explores reasons for the non-take-up of social-security benefits and services in a convenience sample of 34 Israeli adults. The finding…
Moral motivation regarding dementia risk testing among affected persons in Germany and Israel
Recent advances in biomarkers may soon make it possible to identify persons at high risk for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease at a presymptomatic (preclinical) stage. Popular demand for testing is increasing despite the lack of cure and effective prevention options and despite uncertainties regarding the predictive value of biomarker tests. This underscores the relevance of the ethical, cultural and social implications of predictive testing and the…
Cognitive illness representations among Israeli Arabs diagnosed with depression and their relationship with health-related quality of life
BACKGROUND: The number of studies that have assessed cognitive illness representations among people diagnosed with depression, and their relationship to health outcomes, has clearly grown. Nevertheless, the relationship between cognitive illness representations and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has received very little research attention. AIMS: This study examined cognitive illness representations, based on the self-regulation model (SRM…
Exploring the Motivations for Completing Advance Care Directives
There is need to expand comparative research among culturally and socially similar and dissimilar groups within a country as well as between countries in order to better guide public health efforts to increase the rates of advance directives completion. Special attention should be paid to decreasing stigmatic beliefs and understanding unique cultural values and motivations
How Are Sociodemographic, Health, Psychological, and Cognitive Factors Associated with Dementia Worry? An Online Survey Study among Israeli and Australian Laypeople
Our findings suggest that country may not be the best criterion to assess cultural differences and should be accompanied by the participants' assessment of their cultural tendencies. Our study also stresses the importance of conceptualizing and assessing affective and cognitive aspects of dementia worry, as people from different cultures might perceive dementia worry cognitively differently but affectively similar and vice-versa
The difference in stigmatizing attributions toward older adults with or without Alzheimer’s disease
Examining Dementia Family Caregivers’ Forgone Care for General Practitioners and Medical Specialists during a Covid-19 Lockdown
The present study aimed to assess dementia caregivers' reports of the prevalence and correlates of forgone care regarding visits to a general practitioner (GP) and to a specialist during the COVID-19 lockdown in Israel, using Andersen's Behavioral Model of Healthcare Utilization. A cross-sectional study using an online survey was conducted with 73 Israeli family caregivers of persons with dementia residing in the community (81% Jews, 86% female, …
Hospital staff members' preferences about who should be prioritized to receive the Covid-19 vaccine
Medical students’ help-seeking recommendations for a person with Alzheimer’s disease
Primary care physicians play a central role in the process of providing a timely diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Recent reviews reported that their lack of knowledge and stigmatic beliefs about the disease are important barriers to providing an adequate diagnosis and even affect physicians’ referral recommendations for help-seeking (HS). This topic however, has not been examined among medical students. Thus, the aim of this study was to ex…
Exploring the perceptions and stigmatizing experiences of Israeli family caregivers of people with Parkinson's disease
Depression Illness Representations Among Arabs in Israel
Stigmatic beliefs toward a person with Alzheimer’s disease among high-school students
Research in the area of public stigma and Alzheimer disease (AD) is attracting increased attention in the last years. However, studies are limited to assessing the topic among adult persons. The aims of this study were to assess stigmatic beliefs toward a person with AD in high-school students and to examine whether majority–minority status is associated with stigmatic beliefs beyond other correlates of stigma.A total of 460 high-school students …
Stigma regarding hearing loss and hearing aids
The relationship between loss of parents in the Holocaust, intrusive memories, and distress among child survivors
The prevalence of intrusive memories of the Holocaust and their relationship to distress was examined among 272 child survivors in Israel. Using attachment theory as a conceptual framework, the authors also examined the effects of type of experience and loss of parents in the Holocaust, psychological resources, other life events, and sociodemographic characteristics on distress and symptomatic behavior. Eighty five percent of the participants rep…
Israeli Dietitians' Professional Stigma Attached to Obese Patients
The aim of this study was to explore and define the different dimensions of professional stigma attached to obese patients by dietitians. Four focus groups were conducted with 23 Israeli dietitians. Findings showed that while treating obese patients, dietitians underwent a stigmatization process involving cognitive, emotional, and behavioral phases. Obese patients with an internal locus of control, who took responsibility for their failure to die…
Subjective Experience of Family Stigma as Reported by Children of Alzheimer’s Disease Patients
In this study we explored the subjective experience of family stigma as reported by children of persons with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Our data indicated that family stigma in the area of AD was primarily experienced in three dimensions: caregivers’ stigma, lay public’s stigma, and structural stigma. We found that in all these dimensions family stigma follows a process characterized by three core elements: cognitive attributions, emotional reacti…
Israeli lay persons’ views on priority‐setting criteria for Alzheimer’s disease
Aim The aim of this study was to assess Israeli lay persons’ preferences for setting priorities for the care of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Background As the knowledge about AD accumulates, and especially as more therapeutic and non‐therapeutic interventions for its early diagnosis and treatment are developed, health‐care costs associated with the disease rise dramatically. Therefore, setting priorities for funding these therapies, as well as other…
Facts on Law and Ageing Quiz
Until now, no attempt has been made to develop a research tool to provide a broad descriptive picture of the actual knowledge that older people have of their legal rights. This article will describe a first attempt, conducted in Israel, to create such a tool, known as the Facts on Law and Ageing Quiz (FoLAQ ). This quiz was developed to provide a short and standardised tool for assessing older people's knowledge of their legal rights in Israel. I…
Grandmothers', Mothers' and Granddaughters' Perceptions of Grandparenthood
The aim of the present study was to assess the meaning of grandparenthood in grandparent-parent-grandchild triads, and to examine its congruence between generations. Three types of relations were found: (1) the congruent-strongly connected relationship, characterized by a reciprocal and nurturing relation; (2) the congruentnon-connected relationship, characterized by an agreement among all members regarding the problematic and dissociated relatio…
Handwriting Process Variables Discriminating Mild Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment
This study's aims were (a) to examine kinematically the handwriting process of persons with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), compared with those with mild Alzheimer's disease and healthy controls; (b) to assess the importance of these measures for the differentiation of the groups; and (c) to assess characteristics of the handwriting process across different functional tasks. Thirty-one persons with MCI, 22 with mild Alzheimer's disease, and 41 h…
Mediation across generations
Knowledge and Correlates of Osteoporosis
The present study examined levels and correlates of knowledge about osteoporosis among 176 Israeli-Jewish (mean age = 55) and 80 Israeli-Arab (mean age = 51) women. Levels of knowledge about the disease were low among all women, especially regarding some of the risk factors. Knowledge and awareness about the disease were especially deficient among Arab women. Younger age and lower education were the main vulnerability factors among Jewish women, …
Predictors of Aggressive Behaviors
Aggressive behaviors place elderly persons and their caregivers at risk. This study examines longitudinally the predictors of aggressive behaviors based on staff and family members' ratings of 200 community-dwelling participants from senior day care centers. The main difference between physically and verbally aggressive behaviors was found to be the role of physical and mental health. Cognitive impairment and poor quality of relationship were the…
Mediation across generations
Israeli Dietitians' Professional Stigma Attached to Obese Patients
The aim of this study was to explore and define the different dimensions of professional stigma attached to obese patients by dietitians. Four focus groups were conducted with 23 Israeli dietitians. Findings showed that while treating obese patients, dietitians underwent a stigmatization process involving cognitive, emotional, and behavioral phases. Obese patients with an internal locus of control, who took responsibility for their failure to die…
Stigmatic beliefs toward a person with Alzheimer’s disease among high-school students
Research in the area of public stigma and Alzheimer disease (AD) is attracting increased attention in the last years. However, studies are limited to assessing the topic among adult persons. The aims of this study were to assess stigmatic beliefs toward a person with AD in high-school students and to examine whether majority–minority status is associated with stigmatic beliefs beyond other correlates of stigma.A total of 460 high-school students …
Facts on Law and Ageing Quiz
Until now, no attempt has been made to develop a research tool to provide a broad descriptive picture of the actual knowledge that older people have of their legal rights. This article will describe a first attempt, conducted in Israel, to create such a tool, known as the Facts on Law and Ageing Quiz (FoLAQ ). This quiz was developed to provide a short and standardised tool for assessing older people's knowledge of their legal rights in Israel. I…
Grandmothers', Mothers' and Granddaughters' Perceptions of Grandparenthood
The aim of the present study was to assess the meaning of grandparenthood in grandparent-parent-grandchild triads, and to examine its congruence between generations. Three types of relations were found: (1) the congruent-strongly connected relationship, characterized by a reciprocal and nurturing relation; (2) the congruentnon-connected relationship, characterized by an agreement among all members regarding the problematic and dissociated relatio…
Handwriting Process Variables Discriminating Mild Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment
This study's aims were (a) to examine kinematically the handwriting process of persons with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), compared with those with mild Alzheimer's disease and healthy controls; (b) to assess the importance of these measures for the differentiation of the groups; and (c) to assess characteristics of the handwriting process across different functional tasks. Thirty-one persons with MCI, 22 with mild Alzheimer's disease, and 41 h…
Predictors of Aggressive Behaviors
Aggressive behaviors place elderly persons and their caregivers at risk. This study examines longitudinally the predictors of aggressive behaviors based on staff and family members' ratings of 200 community-dwelling participants from senior day care centers. The main difference between physically and verbally aggressive behaviors was found to be the role of physical and mental health. Cognitive impairment and poor quality of relationship were the…
Agitation and Touch in the Nursing Home
The relationship between manifestations of agitated behaviors and interpersonal distance was examined in 24 nursing home residents with high agitation and severe cognitive impairment. Analysis indicated that agitated residents displayed divergent responses to touch: touch was related to an increase in aggressive behaviors and to a decrease in physically nonaggressive behaviors (e.g., strange movements). The positive relationship between aggressiv…
Predictors of Aggressive Behaviors
Aggressive behaviors place elderly persons and their caregivers at risk. This study examines longitudinally the predictors of aggressive behaviors based on staff and family members' ratings of 200 community-dwelling participants from senior day care centers. The main difference between physically and verbally aggressive behaviors was found to be the role of physical and mental health. Cognitive impairment and poor quality of relationship were the…
Knowledge and Correlates of Osteoporosis
The present study examined levels and correlates of knowledge about osteoporosis among 176 Israeli-Jewish (mean age = 55) and 80 Israeli-Arab (mean age = 51) women. Levels of knowledge about the disease were low among all women, especially regarding some of the risk factors. Knowledge and awareness about the disease were especially deficient among Arab women. Younger age and lower education were the main vulnerability factors among Jewish women, …
Mediation across generations
Handwriting Process Variables Discriminating Mild Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment
This study's aims were (a) to examine kinematically the handwriting process of persons with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), compared with those with mild Alzheimer's disease and healthy controls; (b) to assess the importance of these measures for the differentiation of the groups; and (c) to assess characteristics of the handwriting process across different functional tasks. Thirty-one persons with MCI, 22 with mild Alzheimer's disease, and 41 h…
Grandmothers', Mothers' and Granddaughters' Perceptions of Grandparenthood
The aim of the present study was to assess the meaning of grandparenthood in grandparent-parent-grandchild triads, and to examine its congruence between generations. Three types of relations were found: (1) the congruent-strongly connected relationship, characterized by a reciprocal and nurturing relation; (2) the congruentnon-connected relationship, characterized by an agreement among all members regarding the problematic and dissociated relatio…
Facts on Law and Ageing Quiz
Until now, no attempt has been made to develop a research tool to provide a broad descriptive picture of the actual knowledge that older people have of their legal rights. This article will describe a first attempt, conducted in Israel, to create such a tool, known as the Facts on Law and Ageing Quiz (FoLAQ ). This quiz was developed to provide a short and standardised tool for assessing older people's knowledge of their legal rights in Israel. I…
Israeli lay persons’ views on priority‐setting criteria for Alzheimer’s disease
Aim The aim of this study was to assess Israeli lay persons’ preferences for setting priorities for the care of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Background As the knowledge about AD accumulates, and especially as more therapeutic and non‐therapeutic interventions for its early diagnosis and treatment are developed, health‐care costs associated with the disease rise dramatically. Therefore, setting priorities for funding these therapies, as well as other…
Subjective Experience of Family Stigma as Reported by Children of Alzheimer’s Disease Patients
In this study we explored the subjective experience of family stigma as reported by children of persons with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Our data indicated that family stigma in the area of AD was primarily experienced in three dimensions: caregivers’ stigma, lay public’s stigma, and structural stigma. We found that in all these dimensions family stigma follows a process characterized by three core elements: cognitive attributions, emotional reacti…
The relationship between loss of parents in the Holocaust, intrusive memories, and distress among child survivors
The prevalence of intrusive memories of the Holocaust and their relationship to distress was examined among 272 child survivors in Israel. Using attachment theory as a conceptual framework, the authors also examined the effects of type of experience and loss of parents in the Holocaust, psychological resources, other life events, and sociodemographic characteristics on distress and symptomatic behavior. Eighty five percent of the participants rep…
Israeli Dietitians' Professional Stigma Attached to Obese Patients
The aim of this study was to explore and define the different dimensions of professional stigma attached to obese patients by dietitians. Four focus groups were conducted with 23 Israeli dietitians. Findings showed that while treating obese patients, dietitians underwent a stigmatization process involving cognitive, emotional, and behavioral phases. Obese patients with an internal locus of control, who took responsibility for their failure to die…
Stigma regarding hearing loss and hearing aids
Stigmatic beliefs toward a person with Alzheimer’s disease among high-school students
Research in the area of public stigma and Alzheimer disease (AD) is attracting increased attention in the last years. However, studies are limited to assessing the topic among adult persons. The aims of this study were to assess stigmatic beliefs toward a person with AD in high-school students and to examine whether majority–minority status is associated with stigmatic beliefs beyond other correlates of stigma.A total of 460 high-school students …
Medical students’ help-seeking recommendations for a person with Alzheimer’s disease
Primary care physicians play a central role in the process of providing a timely diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Recent reviews reported that their lack of knowledge and stigmatic beliefs about the disease are important barriers to providing an adequate diagnosis and even affect physicians’ referral recommendations for help-seeking (HS). This topic however, has not been examined among medical students. Thus, the aim of this study was to ex…
Exploring the perceptions and stigmatizing experiences of Israeli family caregivers of people with Parkinson's disease
Depression Illness Representations Among Arabs in Israel
The difference in stigmatizing attributions toward older adults with or without Alzheimer’s disease
Examining Dementia Family Caregivers’ Forgone Care for General Practitioners and Medical Specialists during a Covid-19 Lockdown
The present study aimed to assess dementia caregivers' reports of the prevalence and correlates of forgone care regarding visits to a general practitioner (GP) and to a specialist during the COVID-19 lockdown in Israel, using Andersen's Behavioral Model of Healthcare Utilization. A cross-sectional study using an online survey was conducted with 73 Israeli family caregivers of persons with dementia residing in the community (81% Jews, 86% female, …
Hospital staff members' preferences about who should be prioritized to receive the Covid-19 vaccine
Moral motivation regarding dementia risk testing among affected persons in Germany and Israel
Recent advances in biomarkers may soon make it possible to identify persons at high risk for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease at a presymptomatic (preclinical) stage. Popular demand for testing is increasing despite the lack of cure and effective prevention options and despite uncertainties regarding the predictive value of biomarker tests. This underscores the relevance of the ethical, cultural and social implications of predictive testing and the…
Cognitive illness representations among Israeli Arabs diagnosed with depression and their relationship with health-related quality of life
BACKGROUND: The number of studies that have assessed cognitive illness representations among people diagnosed with depression, and their relationship to health outcomes, has clearly grown. Nevertheless, the relationship between cognitive illness representations and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has received very little research attention. AIMS: This study examined cognitive illness representations, based on the self-regulation model (SRM…
Exploring the Motivations for Completing Advance Care Directives
There is need to expand comparative research among culturally and socially similar and dissimilar groups within a country as well as between countries in order to better guide public health efforts to increase the rates of advance directives completion. Special attention should be paid to decreasing stigmatic beliefs and understanding unique cultural values and motivations
How Are Sociodemographic, Health, Psychological, and Cognitive Factors Associated with Dementia Worry? An Online Survey Study among Israeli and Australian Laypeople
Our findings suggest that country may not be the best criterion to assess cultural differences and should be accompanied by the participants' assessment of their cultural tendencies. Our study also stresses the importance of conceptualizing and assessing affective and cognitive aspects of dementia worry, as people from different cultures might perceive dementia worry cognitively differently but affectively similar and vice-versa
Validating the Hebrew Version of the Modified Dementia Worry Scale (H-MDWS)
Israeli Adults’ Non-take-up of Social Benefits
Even though welfare states aim to address citizens' social care needs, disparities in benefit distribution persist, leading to "non-take-up." Non-take-up is the phenomenon in which people who may be eligible for a benefit fail to apply for it or forgo it after applying. Based on a qualitative approach, this study explores reasons for the non-take-up of social-security benefits and services in a convenience sample of 34 Israeli adults. The finding…
Psychology (23 works) · Medicine (21 works) · Psychiatry (14 works) · Clinical Psychology (12 works) · Disease (12 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Gerontology (9 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Dementia (7 works) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (7 works)