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Showing 1 to 20 of 91 for “"Health behaviour"”.
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Conditions for health behaviour change
The impact of an academic course in health psychology on students' health behaviour is assessed. It was contended that this course motivated students to improve their personal health behaviours, as it contained all the elements necessary for persuasion. It was hypothesised that (a) self-reported …
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A conflict-theory approach to understanding adolescents' health behaviour
The relationship between adolescents’ health decisions and their coping reactions to threat has been the focus of some empirical research. A relevant theoretical perspective is the Conflict-Theory Model (Janis, 1983) which specifies several modes by which people cope with threat, including …
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Financial incentives for health-behaviour change: assessing behavioural and cognitive consequences
… financial incentives for changing their health-related behaviour is one possible strategy for improving health and reducing morbidity and premature mortality. However, several important aspects of the behavioural and cognitive consequences of this type of intervention remain unclear. …
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Explaining Young Adolescents’ Physical Activity Decision-Making Using the Prototype Willingness Model of Health Behaviour
Background: Health guidelines suggest young people spend 60 minutes per day in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, but the proportion meeting this target falls during early adolescence, a developmental stage characterised by impulsive choices not accounted for by behavioural theories based on …
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Personalisation of a multimethod digital health behaviour change intervention (DHBCI) for midlife women in the UK.
Background: Healthy lifestyle behaviours, including healthy diet and regular physical activity, are important behavioural determinants of the quality of life in midlife women. Midlife for women is also a key life stage that is associated with increased health risks of developing long-term health …
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Effect of a brief self-compassion intervention on self-compassion and health behaviours in emerging adults.
… have been put in place to address the health behaviour failures that lead to NCDs. However at an individual level such failures remain all too common. Emerging adulthood (ages 18 to 25) is a time of particular health behaviour challenges, with lack of self-regulatory capacity …
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Maternal health behaviours: the development and feasibility evaluation of a mindfulness-based behaviour change intervention for pregnant women
Background: Maternal health behaviours are associated with the likelihood of pregnancy complications, and with infants’ immediate and lifetime outcomes. Aim: The overarching aim was to investigate whether mindfulness training might have any potential as the basis of a maternal behaviour change …
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Exploring the experiences and use of text messages to enhance health behaviours and self-management in South Asian patients
… the South-Asian (SA) community enhances positive health behaviours, and self-management through the Florence (FLO) text messaging system. It also examines socio-cultural factors contributing to self-management, patient activation and engagement with text messaging. There is limited literature …
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Health Psychology Principles in Behaviour Change Interventions – Insights from Practice and Research
… which play a key role in diet and exercise behaviour for migrant and Danish bus drivers in a workplace setting. The aim was to develop a framework to illustrate how the individual, contextual and cultural influences on health behaviour (diet and physical activity) interplay in an everyday …
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The consideration of future consequences: scale dimensionality and domain specificity
… immediate versus future outcomes of present-day behaviour, and the extent to which they are influenced by these potential outcomes. The construct is measured using a 14-item scale, which consists of seven items assessing concern for future outcomes of behaviour and seven items measuring concern …
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Beyond social cognition models : a mixed methods investigation of influences on attempts to adopt health behaviours
… and operation of influences on attempts to adopt health behaviours, health psychologists have largely concentrated on developing models incorporating statistically predictive combinations of measures of social cognitions. However, this body of work is flawed by theoretical, methodological and …
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The health beliefs and behaviour of older people in relation to the early detection of skin cancer
… structured questionnaires based on an expanded health belief model (FIBM) which incorporated specific fmdings from Study I. Results show that the expanded FIBM explained a reasonable amount of variance in skin self-examination (SSE), but a negligible amount in treatment-seeking intentions. Path …
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Environmental and individual influences on smoking in young people. Findings from the international HBSC study
… volledig gebaseerd op de internationale studie Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC). Een eerste artikel omschrijft de grote verschillen in prevalentie van dagelijks roken tussen 1990 en 2002 in tien Europese landen en Canada. Een tweede manuscript bestudeert de associaties tussen …
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Adherence to Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercises and the Role of Smart Phone Apps
… have been suggested as an effective resource for health behaviour interventions, especially for sensitive or embarrassing conditions.<br/>A mixed methodology was used to gather evidence about the experience of community dwelling women in the North of Scotland over a three month period. Of the …
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Tailoring eHealth interventions for weight loss: an integrative person-centred approach
Obesity is a public health concern which requires scalable, effective and cost-effective approaches to support people to lose weight. Behaviour change interventions that support people to improve the quality of their diet and increase physical activity can promote weight loss. eHealth …
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Diet in transition : the effect of leaving home on the diet and nutritional status of young adults
… home may form the basis of dietary habits and health status in adulthood. Many young people leave home to pursue further education, begin employment and/or co-habit/start a family. However, some leave home involuntarily or due to family conflict, becoming homeless. The circumstances of a young …
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Health belief model interpretations of sociopsychological factors associated with compliance for weight loss and cardiac rehabilitation programmes
… was to construct a questionnaire, using the Health Belief Model (HBM) as an organizing rubric, and to test its psychometric properties in a pilot study. The second was to utilize the questionnaire to understand why individuals did or did not comply on the University of Cape Town Weight Loss …
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The effectiveness of workplace health promotion within the Victoria Police Force : a pilot study
… highlighted problems in the area of employee health and fitness. Officers of law enforcement agencies require a level of health and fitness which will enable them to effectively carry out their daily duties. While much of a police officer's shift is sedentary in nature, intermittent bursts of …
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