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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"health related behaviors"”.
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Targeting Psychological Flexibility in Youth to Enhance Health-Related Behaviors
… inadequately addressed. When addressed, mental health concerns are commonly handled in schools, which are uniquely positioned to prevent social and emotional difficulties. Universal, social and emotional learning curricula have demonstrated efficacy within a framework providing multi-tiered …
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Defining Health and Health-Related Behaviors Following a Near-Death Experience
While broad categories of health and influences on definitions of health have been identified, the process through which adults define and re-define health has not been researched. The purpose of this study was to investigate the process of defining health and appropriate health-related behaviors …
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Assessment of Religious Motivation and its Effects on Health Related Behaviors
… that one’s religious behavior can influence health, either by formal offerings to religious shamans or the uttering of a prayer to an unseen deity, likely predates recorded history and finds its most basic beliefs expressed in Exodus 15:26, “I will put none of the diseases upon you which I …
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Metatheoretical constructs : implications for health and illness definition preference and health related behaviors
… individuals subscribe to personal definitions of health and illness because they are committed to different philosophical and epistemological positions. Second, does an individual's personal definition of health and illness predict the frequency of health and illness related behaviors.Two studies …
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Positive Emotion, Attentional Focus and Physical Health-Related Behaviors in the Family System
… that motive), attentional focus and physical health-related behaviors, including physical activity and overeating, in adolescents and their primary caregivers. Greater overall positive emotion has been linked with increased engagement in physical activity and overeating. However, there is …
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Health-Related Behaviors In Low-Income, Minority Youth: The Role Of Motivation, Basic Needs, Mental Health, And Environmental Barriers
<p>Engaging in health-related behaviors, such as exercise, healthy eating, and sleep hygiene, are associated with fewer externalizing and internalizing behavior problems and higher self-esteem, suggesting that there may be large benefits to engaging in health-related behaviors during the …
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School wellness policy strength, nutrition-related behaviors, and weight outcomes among high school students: an ecological study
Background: Adolescent health-related behaviors are less than ideal, and 1 in 3 adolescents in the U.S. is affected by overweight or obesity. The rates of overweight and obesity, as well as the behavioral risk factors associated with these conditions, vary by state. An improved understanding of the …
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Delay Discounting, Reinforcing Value of Food, and Components of Metabolic Health
… have evaluated a number of processes underlying health-related behaviors, one of which is delay discounting. Delay discounting is a cognitive process that describes the phenomenon by which individuals discount the value of a future reward compared to the value of an immediate reward. Researchers …
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Personality, self-efficacy, and barriers to participation in a health promotion program
… becoming aware of the importance of fostering a healthy workforce. Health promotion programs, wellness programs that address a range of health-related behaviors, can be very beneficial for both employees and organizations, but only if the employees use them. Although corporations are offering …
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Health Promotion in Multiple Domains: Capitalizing on the Spillover Effect
<p>Lifestyle behaviors, such as physical activity and food consumption choices, play a critical role in the development of chronic diseases and ultimately mortality. Optimally, multiple health-related behaviors are changed to reduce risk rather than targeting only one risk behavior. The purpose of …
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Are the Initiation and Maintenance of a Resistance Training Program Associated with Changes to Dietary Intake and Non-Resistance Training Physical Activity in Adults with Prediabetes?
… for developing prediabetes and T2DM due to age-related muscle loss, increased fat mass, and alterations in glucose handling. In addition, this segment of the population is least likely to meet PA guidelines, particularly the resistance training (RT) recommendation of completing a whole body …
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The development and evaluation of software to foster professional development in educational assessment
… professional development, modification of health-related behaviors, and the information systems theories of captology and structuration theory were synthesized to develop a general model for designing systems to foster teacher professional development. This model was then applied to design …
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Epidemiological studies of sociodemographic factors, early life factors, health, and medical care consumption among small children
… standards, children in Sweden experience good health. Sweden has low infant mortality rates, low accident mortality rates, a high number of breastfed children and a high proportion of vaccinated children. However, during the past twenty years the prevalence of overweight children has doubled in …
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Can We Be Trained to Eat Healthy? The Effects of an Attentional Bias Modification Program on Eating Behavior
… neural reward systems) to influence individual health-related behaviors (e.g., food consumption) through mechanisms such as attentional bias. Attentional bias modification (ABM) programs have been developed to train individuals to either attend to or avoid certain food cues in the environment, …
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Politics and pandemics: an investigation of the potential covariates in the relationship between conservative political ideology and reduced facemask wearing
… This line of research may aid public health officials in their recommendations to society so that populations with low adherence to pandemic health-related behaviors are more receptive to them. Achieving this could help curb the spread of COVID-19 and protect countless individuals.</p>
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Breast self-examination: the evaluation of strategies for promoting monthly home-practice
… successful in increasing compliance to other health-related behaviors, this study attempted to evaluate the efficacy of prompts on the monthly practice of BSE. Specifically, after exposure to a BSE teaching workshop, participants (N = 83), who were faculty and staff members at a state …
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Knowledge, Perceptions, and Practices: Mosquito-borne Disease Transmission in Southwest Virginia
… The objective of this research, which uses the Health Belief Model (HBM) as a theoretical framework, is to assess knowledge of mosquito-borne disease in southwest Virginia, as well as perceptions and practices of mosquito prevention. Given that several cases of La Crosse encephalitis have been …
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Social evolution : opinions and behaviors in face-to-face networks
… phones to model the spread of opinions and behaviors of 78 residents of an undergraduate residence hall for an entire academic year, based on over 320,000 hours of behavior data. Political scientists (Huckfeldt and Sprague, APSR, 1983) have noted the problem of mutual causation between …
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Development of the adolescent exploratory and risk behavior rating scale.
Adolescence is a time when risk behaviors begin to increase through experimentation with health risk behaviors such as substance used and reckless driving and exploratory risk behaviors such as asking someone on a date and standing up to peers. It is likely that some risk-taking is necessary in the …
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Improving physical activity adherence: the effects of self-control strategies, telephone prompting using lifestyle physical activity
… physical activity in our country is a primary health promotion and disease prevention concern. Yet, much of the population remains sedentary and thus, at increased risk for several diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease and hyperlipidemia. Unfortunately, programs promoting …
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