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Showing 1 to 20 of 317 for “"Health Behaviors"”.
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Mindfulness and Health Behaviors
… of morbidity and mortality (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services and U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 2005). The current study is interested in integrating mindfulness into interventions geared towards changing health behaviors. Mindfulness is a Buddhist-based concept that has received an …
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Mindfulness and Health Behaviors
… of morbidity and mortality (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services and U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 2005). The current study is interested in integrating mindfulness into interventions geared towards changing health behaviors. Mindfulness is a Buddhist-based concept that has received an …
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Social Support And Health Behaviors
… showing a correlation between social support and health behaviors. However, does social support act the same across several health behaviors? The purpose of this study was to determine if social support has an impact across diet, physical activity and smoking in adults. The participants were 2,821 …
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Neurobehavioral and Neurophysiological Correlates of Health Behaviors
Modifiable health behaviors are a leading cause of mortality and chronic disease in the United States. Engagement in maladaptive health behaviors is linked to poor physical, psychological, and cognitive outcomes including increased risk of cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease, anxiety, and …
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Health behaviors and life satisfaction in college students
… explored the relationship between a variety of health behaviors and life satisfaction in college students. University students (N=794) enrolled in a midwestern university during the Fall, 2006 and Spring, 2007 semester, completed an online Health Behavior Assessment designed to measure body mass …
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Evaluating Social Capital Effects On Adolescent Sexual Health Behaviors
… that innovative solutions to safe sexual health behaviors must be discovered to help reduce the rates of sexually transmitted diseases in this population. Research has suggested that adolescents are influenced by peer relationships, and the behaviors in which their peers participate. This …
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Social Support, Health Behaviors, and Academic Success in College Students
… support was associated with self-efficacy for health promoting behaviors, and whether self-efficacy for health promoting behaviors predicts academic success for college students. Gender differences in perceived social support were also examined. Participants were undergraduate students at a …
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Health behaviors of African American eighth graders attending urban public schools.
Health behaviors of African American eighth graders attending urban public schools.
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Proposed Social Media Intervention to Improve Galveston Adolescent Sexual Health Behaviors
… evaluate the use of social media to disseminate health information. The aim of this Masters in Public Health (MPH) capstone project is to define an important health issue that affects Ball High School students in Galveston, Texas and to then construct a strategy to create awareness about this …
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Assessment of predictors of health behaviors of elders in frontier Nevada
… correlational study was to investigate health-promoting lifestyle practices and correlate these to self identified factors that may limit health promotion activity of frontier rural elders living in Nevada. Pender's Health Promotion Model provided the theoretical framework for this …
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The effect of quality of life and health behaviors in schizotypy
… found to engage in higher rates of poorer health behaviors, such as higher rates of smoking and poorer nutrition. Along with poorer health behaviors, individuals with schizophrenia tend to report a lower quality of life than an individual without a schizophrenia diagnosis. Our study chose …
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Using Social Cognitive Theory to Model Health Behaviors Among Chinese Children
… were used. The survey employed items from the Health Behavior Questionnaire, the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, and a 24-hour Diet Recall Form. Eighty-four children completed the self-administered survey; 54 of these were enrolled in a Chinese Weekend School. The mean age of the children was 10.5 …
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A Multifactorial Study of Factors Influencing Self-Health Behaviors in Dementia
… in dementia cases presents a significant public health challenge, particularly given the absence of a cure and the rising healthcare burden on individuals and society. This study aims to examine the influence of knowledge, beliefs, and motivation on self-health behaviors to mitigate the risk of …
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Lower order structure of conscientiousness and the prediction of health behaviors
… the personality trait of conscientiousness and health behaviors has been well established in the social sciences literature. Because health and longevity are such intimately important life outcomes, it is critical to test these relationships using multiple methodologically rigorous techniques. …
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Examining The Longitudinal Impact Of Assets And Income On Immigrant Health Behaviors
… the effects of culture and acculturation on the health behaviors of the foreign born. Drawing from the behavioral model of health service utilization for vulnerable populations: Gelberg, Andersen, & Leake, 2000), the assets effects model: Schreiner & Sherraden, 2007; Sherraden, 1991), and …
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The Role Of Religion In The Relationship Between Loneliness And Health Behaviors
… has demonstrated the relationship of religion to health risk and health promoting behaviors, it has not investigated the relationship between religious coping and health risk and health promoting behaviors. In addition, while the link between loneliness and certain health risk and health promoting …
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Health Behaviors and Physical Health Among Young Adults with Varying Psychometric Schizotypy
… explanation for this association might be poor health behaviors, as people with schizophrenia are more sedentary, less physically active, and more likely to engage in substance use compared to the general population. Schizotypy may be conceptualized as the phenotypic expression of increased risk …
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Association between Family arrangements and Health behaviors by Gender in Older adults
… the relationship between family arrangements and health behavior by gender among older people aged 65years and older. METHOD: Data are from the Living Profiles of Older People Survey conducted by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs and the Ministry of Health & Welfare in 2011. The …
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Development of a Social Support Scale for Health Behaviors in College Students
… in their efforts to manage their weight and health. Social support may be such a mechanism; a study by Strong and colleagues (2008) demonstrated that social support was influential in college students' decisions to participate in exercise and avoid sedentary behaviors. However, a scale …
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