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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"health promotion behaviors"”.
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Health Literacy and Health Promotion Behaviors among Samoans
Limited health literacy is associated with failure to engage in health promotion behaviors. Few studies examine this relationship among Samoans. This study used a cross-sectional correlational design to determine health literacy levels and their relationship to health promoting behaviors in a …
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American Indian Women’s Health Perceptions and Health Promotion Behaviors
… Most problems affecting the health of American Indian women are related to lifestyles and health-related behaviors (Carter, Morse, Giruad, & Driskell, 2008; Linsley, Kane, & Owen, 2011). Understanding health promotion behaviors could decrease or prevent a number of chronic …
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Impact of the Growing Healthy Curriculum on Health Promotion Behaviors of South Dakota Children
Comprehensive school health education has been identified as an essential mechanism for providing children with knowledge and skills necessary for development of healthy lifestyles which may continue into adulthood. Approximately one-half of public, private, and governmental agency school districts …
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Exercise Self-Efficacy, Stages of Exercise Change, Health Promotion Behaviors, and Physical Activity in Postmenopausal Hispanic Women
… self-efficacy, stages of exercise change, health promotion behaviors, body mass index (BMI), health problems, and the level of physical activity in postmenopausal Hispanic women. The significance of this study is to contribute research that enhances the understanding of the relationship of …
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The Relationships Between Health Literacy, Self-Efficacy and Readiness for Change to Health Promotion Behaviors in Urban Black Women
… races/ethnicities. The ability to avert certain health problems, such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, stroke and overweight or obesity is known to be directly related to active engagement in health promotion behaviors, yet Black women are consistently less likely to engage in …
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Comparison of Health Promotion Behaviors and Performance on the Navy Physical Readiness Test among Active Duty Shipboard Personnel with and without Anterior Knee Pain
Health promotion is the number one health priority of the nation, yet, health promoting behaviors (HPB) are rarely part of the management plan for persons with anterior knee pain (AKP). In an active duty military population, AKP can interfere with performance on the required, semi-annual physical …
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Genograms as threat appeals: Using the Extended Parallel Process Model with familial cardiovascular disease
… threat appeals in motivating intent to perform health promotion and disease prevention behaviors in participants with a history of cardiovascular disease (CVD) recruited by convenience and snowball sampling. The Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM) contends that efficacy must exceed threat for …
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Health Barriers, Health Perceptions, and Cardiovascular Risk Factors of Adolescent Black American Males
… cause of death among Black American adult males. Health behaviors that contribute to CV disease are probably learned during adolescence yet few researchers have studied the factors that influence health promotion behaviors in adolescent Black American males. This study described the health …
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Factors Affecting Health Promotion Lifestyle Behaviors among Arab American Women
Guided by Pender and colleagues' (2006) revised health promotion model (HPM), this descriptive correlational study was designed to explore the relationships between personal factors (comprised of sociodemographic factors, degree of acculturation, and perceived stress), perceived health …
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Finding Myself: The Maturation of Spirituality and its Influence on Behavior During Late Adolescence
… and/or religiosity with both decreased health-risk behaviors and increased health-promotion behaviors during adolescence. However, as reductionist methods have not revealed underlying reasons for these relationships, the ability to apply this knowledge to practice is limited. …
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The Role of Health Promotion in Physical Therapy
… therapy practice patterns in four focus areas of Healthy People 2010 (focus area #6, disability and secondary conditions by looking at psychological well-being; focus area #19, nutrition and overweight; focus area #22, physical fitness and activity; focus area #27, tobacco use) and identify …
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The Prevalence of Obesity in Selected Hutterite Colonies
… a grant funded by the National Institutes of Health. Adult Hutterites also completed a self report questionnaire on perceived body weight. Obesity was defined by body mass index. The prevalence in adult Hutterites 32.7% (males 36%, and females 30%). Data analysis on perceived body weight …
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Ethnic identity, well-being and health among college students
… be a protective factor against negative mental health outcomes for people of color. As health disparities persist, and the demographics of the United States continue to change and become more diverse, ethnic identity might also prove to be an effective instrument in reducing poor health outcomes …
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Factors Influencing Middle-Aged and Older Latin American Women's Participation in Physical Activity
… women in this study sample. Perceptions of health, the health activities in which the women engage, and the factors that influenced their participation in physical activity comprised the three categories of responses. Facilitators and barriers were identified as the two primary groups and …
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Best Practice to Promote Bone Health in Post-menopausal Women through Adequate Intake of Calcium and Vitamin D
<p>BEST PRACTICE TO PROMOTE BONE HEALTH IN POST-MENOPAUSAL WOMEN THROUGH ADEQUATE INTAKE OF </p> <p>CALCIUM AND VITAMIN D </p> <p>Ellen S. Adkins, BSN, RN </p> <p>College of Nursing </p> <p>University of South Carolina </p> <p>Doctor of Nursing Practice degree </p> <p>ABSTRACT</p> <p> Osteoporosis …
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Predictors of African American Women's Perceived Health Status in the Context of Caring for a Relative With End Stage Renal Disease
… (ESRD) were to: (1) identify their perceived health status and changes in perceived health status since assuming the caregiver role, (2) document the association between objective health status and caregiver age, (3) document the relationship between age and perceived health status, (4) …
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Stress Management and Health Promotion Behaviours in Young Men in Tertiary Education Settings
… identified as being a major protagonist of ill health and poor sense of wellbeing amongst all ages groups. For example stress has been identified as being a strong correlate of anxiety and school refusal in primary aged children; depression, suicidal ideation and physical malaise in adolescents …
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Exploring Cross-Sectional Relationships between Health Literacy, Dietary Intake, Physical Activity, and Anthropometric/Biological Variables among Residents in Southwest Virginia
BACKGROUND: Low health literacy and numeracy are significant problems facing the United States. Recent research focuses heavily on the role health literacy and numeracy play in perception of disease risk, health care costs, all-cause mortality, and access to care; however, there has been relativity …