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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Health motivation"”.
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Development of the Health Motivation Assessment Inventory
… (variables) that produce and influence the motivation of health promotional behaviors in working adults, and how do these variables interact? The desire to examine why individuals practice (or fail to practice) behaviors or actions believed to be positive for health precipitated this study. …
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Health motivation and satisfaction with primary care in edlerly clients who receive services at a Nursing center
… not a significant relationship existed between health motivation (HM) and satisfaction with primary care (SPC) in elderly clients who received services at a nursing center (NC). The purposes of the study were to describe the demographic characteristics and their effects on HM and SPC; validate …
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Osteoporosis: Perceived Health Beliefs and Preventive Behaviors of Men and Women 60 Years of Age and Older
<p>This study investigated the perceived health beliefs of rural men and women 60 years of age and older towards osteoporosis, and the relationship of those health beliefs to preventive behaviors of osteoporosis.<br> A positive relationship between perceived benefits of calcium intake and exercise, …
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Factors That Influence Mammography Use of Community Health Workers
<p>Community health worker (CHW) interventions promote early detection of breast cancer and mammography use to help eliminate health disparities for minority and low-income women. Data trends show lower mammography use among this population although CHW interventions have been shown to promote …
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Promoting farm to market diets: A study of Hispanic women’s health information seeking behaviors
In this paper, a model of health media usage is developed to understand how the target population that is Hispanic women makes decisions and the sources they turn to for information on health related matters. Key factors used in the investigation process were health behaviors, acculturation and …
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Breast cancer screening behaviors and beliefs in college women
Despite recommendations by health professionals and the American Cancer Society, few women perform breast self-examinations (BSE) or have clinical breast examinations (CBE) on a regular basis. The current study used self-reports from 453 college women under 30 years of age to investigate factors …
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The Effect of Health Information on the Acceptability of a Functional Beverage with Fresh Turmeric
… stress-induced chronic disease. The provision of health information has shown to increase the acceptability of functional foods that impart unfamiliar flavors. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the acceptability and sensory qualities of a functional beverage with fresh turmeric, …
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Pre-service Teachers' Self-efficacy for Teaching Mathematics
… job satisfaction, resilience, burnout rates, health, motivation, teaching behaviors, and students' academic achievement. It is important to understand how they form and what influences their development. The purpose of this study is to better understand the complex relationships involved …
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Utility of the Motivation to Change Lifestyle and Health Behaviors for Dementia Risk Reduction Scale (MCLHB-DRR) Based on a North American Sample
… and socioeconomic status will impact the motivational factors to change lifestyle and health behaviors to reduce the risk of developing dementia and (2) direct experiences with individuals that have a dementia diagnosis are likely to impact one's motivational factors to change lifestyle …
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The Effect of a Nurse Practitioner Intervention on Women Referred for Screening Mammography
… the rates at which women comply with their health care providers' recommendation for screening mammography remain low. Many reasons have been identified for the failure to adhere with this recommendation; pain with procedure, cost, lack of physician recommendation, perceived radiation …
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Breast self-examination practice in older women
… population of older women. This study tested the health protecting behavior of breast self-examination using the scales of the Champion (1985) instrument and the researcher-developed Williams Breast Inventory. These instruments were based on the Health Belief Model. Selected variables of the …
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Students' perspectives of transitioning back to school after a prolonged absence while seeking treatment in a partial hospital setting
… in this narrative inquiry were connection, motivation, support, academic engagement, communication, bullying, feelings, and additional concerns. The results of this study showed that the majority of participants did not feel supported by or connected to their school community, nor did they …
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Motivation as a Common Cognitive Signature of Physical and Mental Health: Bridging Computational Psychiatry, Chronobiology, and Metabolic Health
Motivation plays a fundamental role in human behaviour and shapes the way we engage with the world. But why do individuals differ in their motivational drive and behaviour? The effort-based decision-making framework helps us formalise cognitive mechanisms involved in motivation, furthering our …
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Motivation and adherence to exercise in college students with schizophrenia
… exercise implementations to address the exercise motivation obstacle in people with schizophrenia.
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The Interaction Between Learning and Effort-Based Decision-Making: Mechanisms, Structural Brain Correlates, and Links to Neuropsychiatric Symptoms
… population of anxious/depressed participants and healthy controls to complete the task. Participants’ mental health symptoms are richly characterised then factor analysed. Individualised learning measures better predict participants’ effort choices than the objective outcome probabilities. Despite …