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Showing 1 to 20 of 121 for “"Behavioral change"”.
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Comic-style nudges for behavioral change
… of comic messages in persuading readers to adopt behavioral change. The thesis first introduces a method to transfer traditional text posts on social network to comic-style posts. In the second stage, we design the experiment to examine the persuasive effect of comic posts compared to plain text …
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Rocky Mountain National Park waste audit and recycling behavioral change intervention initiative
… in RMNP, was selected for a two-year behavior change campaign and study. Community-based Social Marketing (CBSM) was used as the framework to identify strategies to increase recycling behaviors of park visitors. In accordance with CBSM, observations of waste disposal behaviors and intercept …
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Oral Health Education Intervention to Assess Oral Health Knowledge and Behavioral Change
<p>The purpose of this study was to evaluate an oral health education intervention on oral health behaviors, oral health knowledge, and diet/amount of sugar consumed by fifth and sixth graders attending charter schools in the city of San Bernardino. Caries status of this particular population was …
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Behavioral Change in a Summer Treatment Program for Children with ASD and ADHD
… associated with common impairments in social and behavioral functioning (Craig et al., 2016; Golstein & Schwebach, 2004; Grzadzinski et al., 2016; Karalunas et al., 2018; Mayes et al., 2012; Ronald et al., 2014; Sokolova et al., 2017). Less is known about the population of children who have …
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Social Marketing and California High-Speed Rail: A Framework for Behavioral Change Towards Sustainability
… practices in general. The goal is to stimulate a change in regional culture, which will support the behavioral changes needed to protect California’s natural resources and reduce our state’s contribution to climate change. I argue: 1) creating a sustainable transit infrastructure with high-speed …
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Behavioral change in response to low-grade non-infectious stimuli: findings and potential neuroimmune mechanisms
… behavior represents a conserved, motivational behavioral state that, with the induction of fever, serves to help an organism combat infection and ultimately survive. Long dismissed as an unavoidable consequence of the physiological changes resulting from pathogen-dependent immune activation, it …
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Monitoring Reduction Efforts for PM2.5 in Ellensburg,WA Using Community-Based Social Marketing to Examine Behavioral Change
… social marketing techniques to encourage behavioral change for wood burning in a targeted neighborhood in Ellensburg. Residents of the target neighborhood were interviewed to gage knowledge and perceptions about wood burning and local air quality. Throughout the home-heating season mobile …
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Patterns and Predictors of Behavioral Change Among Children Enrolled in an Intensive School-Based Mental Health Program
… For children with the most severe emotional and behavioral disorders receiving the most intensive level of intervention, the rate of program implementation has outpaced contributions to the literature on effectiveness. To extend the literature on treatment outcomes, this study explored the …
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Applying the transtheoretical model to promote greater fruit and vegetable consumption: a successful approach to maintaining behavioral change
… of participants in the first three Stages of Change (SOC) to a preparation stage-tailored intervention to increase fruit and vegetable (F&V) consumption. An on-line survey was delivered to 400 university employees, and included questionnaires about their demographic information, SOC, self …
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The Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model: An Examination of Obesity Prevention Behavioral Change in Children Who Participated In The Afterschool Program Virginia Beach Let’s Move
… the utility of the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model (IMB) as a foundation to design childhood obesity prevention afterschool programs. This study employed a secondary analysis of pre (n=172), post (n=170), and 1-year follow-up (n=32) evaluations of the obesity prevention …
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High fidelity website research : using a browser extension to provide a natural environment
… may be difficult to obtain and does not measure behavioral change. Behavioral change is a change in consideration or preference. Surrogate sites can be used to study behavioral change but are difficult and time-consuming to create and do a poor job of mimicking certain classes of sites. This is …
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Using Screenshots as a Medium to Support Knowledge Workers' Productivity
… resources, and enhance self-reflection for behavioral change. Therefore, this Ph.D. dissertation addresses these gaps by focusing on: (1) investigating the existing challenges users face in curating digital resources, (2) designing and implementing supportive applications for task …
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An Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Reinforcement in Counseling on the Change of Verbal and Other Overt Behavior
… of conditioning as demonstrated by other overt behavioral change.
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An extended communication inequalities approach to disparities in obesity preventive behaviors
… of society throughout the communication for behavioral change process. It was expected to find differences in exposure to health information, as well as differences in the degree to which attitudes, norms, and perceived behavioral control (PBC) influence intentions, and the degree to which …
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Examining A Brief Behavior Progress Monitoring Tool's Sensitivity to Change
… in effectively monitoring student's response to behavioral interventions in the classroom. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the FastBridge - Direct Behavior Rating (FastBridge-DBR), a brief, novel progress monitoring measure, designed to assess student behavioral change in response to a …
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A Tailored Sleep Behavior Change Support System to Promote the Use of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Machines: Theorizing the Solution
… adopted to test the effect of a tailored sleep behavioral change support system on mean hours of CPAP use and CPAP compliance among adults with moderate-to-severe OSA. In Study III, a qualitative assessment of the tailored sleep behavioral change support system was conducted to determine the …
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The perceived behavioral effect of feedback from elementary school principals to superintendents in selected Indiana and Ohio school districts
… would manifest observable leader behavior change after having received increased feedback relative toactual and ideal behavior expected of the head administrator as perceived by elementary school principals. Consideration was also given to whether the age of superintendents, number of years …
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