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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Health behavior theory"”.
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The Safer Sexual Communication Practices of Transgender Adults: Implications for HIV Prevention
… satisfying safer sex talk. Goldsmith's normative theory guided semi-structured interviews with 41 transgender individuals. Maximum variation sampling methods allowed for the recruitment of trans-individuals of varying sexual, gender, and ethnic identities. Interviews with transgender adults were …
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A Test of the Behavioral Model of Health Services Use on Non-Emergent Emergency Department Use
… ED use in the 2014 New York State Department of Health Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System outpatient limited dataset. Overall, need for health care and predisposing factors were found to be most influential in driving ED use. This is contradictory to the original hypothesis …
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EXAMINING THE GET YOURSELF TESTED CAMPAIGN: HOW ONLINE INFORMATION SEEKING AND SEXUAL HEALTH PERCEPTIONS INFLUENCE EFFICACY AND COMMUNICATIVE ACTION
… young adults' meaning construction of sexual health, sexual health campaigns, and online sexual health information through the lens of the GYT: Get Yourself Tested Campaign. A secondary purpose is to develop theory in the area of e-health. Finally, this study will offer practical …
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Adolescent Perceptions of Parent-Adolescent Communication and Adolescent Pregnancy
… if effective interventions are to be provided by health care professionals related to decreasing the number as well as the adverse effects of adolescent pregnancy in the United States. The purpose of this descriptive, non-experimental, triangulated study was to examine the relationship between the …
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Computer-based nutrition education for adolescents: systematic review and focus on embedded videos
… trials, and most focused on elements of healthy eating (n=10), while fewer focused on changes in weight status (n=4). Most interventions were behaviorally focused with few measuring changes in nutrition knowledge (n=3). Approximately half of the interventions produced positive changes in …
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Elucidating sexual and reproductive health knowledge and interpersonal correlates and predictors of contraceptive use behaviors among young adults 18-24
… characteristics and dual use; and 3) uses the Theory of Triadic Influence to examine direct and indirect associations between sociocultural factors, interpersonal factors, biological factors, and dual use. Methods: Young adult college students ages 18-24 (N=4,196) were invited to complete a …