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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"model of change"”.
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Testing the transtheoretical model of change in young adult male smokeless tobacco users
Oklahoma is one of the states with high tobacco use rates among adolescents and young adults. Prevalent among adolescent and young adult males is the use of SLT. Among high-school age smokeless tobacco (SLT) users in Oklahoma, 36% began before the age of 13, resulting in profound addiction. The …
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Tacit Culture and Change: A Model of Change Constructed From Institutional Assumptions and Beliefs
… demands and decreasing budgets. Innovation and change in higher education occur in the face of limited institutional resources. Meeting the challenges confronting colleges and universities is best accomplished by applying planned change efforts that recognize tacit culture (underlying …
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Investing For Your Future: Application of the Transtheoretical Model of Change to Investing Behavior
The Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change was used to assess change in investing behavior among Investing For Your Future home-study course participants. The goal of Investing For Your Future is to help people improve their personal finance behaviors leading to financial security in later life. …
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The Application of the Transtheoretical Model of Change to Self-care Behaviors in Type 2 Diabetics
… The Transtheoretical Model of Change (TTM) has been investigated as a model of health behavior change; however, it has only begun to gain recognition in the diabetic population, and has not yet been investigated as it relates to the full-spectrum of diabetes self-care …
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Community development : a quest for social change or social submission : (towards a model of change for South Africa)
… thesis attempts to address the dubious statement of conventional community development that the approach is neutral. The central question asked was 'Is community development a value neutral approach established to meet the needs of communities or does it have another function?' Arguing that no …
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Effects of a Collegiate Employee Wellness Program on Participant Perceived Wellness and the Transtheoretical Model of Change: Voices of Participants
<p>With rising costs of healthcare, due to high counts of obesity and chronic diseases, employers are exploring ways to have healthier and more productive employees by implementing wellness programs. Previous studies conducted on wellness programs and physical activity interventions took place at …
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Conscientiousness and the Transtheoretical Model of Change in Exercise: Integrating Trait and Social Cognitive Frameworks in the Prediction of Behavior
… traits and transtheoretical model (TTM) of change constructs, exercise self-efficacy, and exercise behavior were examined concurrently and prospectively in college and community samples (N&barbelow; = 613) using self-reported and observer ratings. Measures of the …
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Individual Behavior Change in the Context of Organization Change: Towards Validation of the Transtheoretical Model of Change in an Organizational Environment
A review of literature indicates limited effort to understand and explain employees' acclimation to, and adoption of, new behaviors required by organization change initiatives. Psychological theories of individual behavior change have, in restricted instances, been applied into organizational …
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The Experiences of Teachers and Administrators with a New Teacher Evaluation System in a Local School Division
… administrators experienced the implementation of this new evaluation system. Their observations, thoughts, feelings, and learning about themselves, and how they experienced this change were the topics of interest in the study. The setting for this case study was one elementary school in a small …
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The experience of successful smoking cessation: A phenomenological inquiry
… health issue and despite efforts, prevalence of smoking has not decreased in accordance with national goals. This study utilized a phenomenological approach to describe women's experience of successful smoking cessation. Pender's Health Promotion Model (1996) and Prochaska and DiClementes' …
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Change and Recovery from Substance Misuse: Native American Perspectives
… qualitative study investigated the constructs of change within the action and maintenance stages of the Transtheoretical Model of Change (TMC) and balance within the domains of the Medicine Wheel (MW). The guiding questions addressed: a) point of focus in sobriety and recovery phases within the …
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Change and Recovery from Substance Misuse: Native American Perspectives
… qualitative study investigated the constructs of change within the action and maintenance stages of the Transtheoretical Model of Change (TMC) and balance within the domains of the Medicine Wheel (MW). The guiding questions addressed: a) point of focus in sobriety and recovery phases within the …
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Learning from the Lived Experience of Addicts in Recovery: How to Obtain and Retain Recovery
<p>The devastation of addiction and the transformation of recovery are best explained by experienced experts - the recovering addicts themselves. In this phenomenological study nine participants with over seventeen years of abstinence describe their journey from addiction to recovery. Two theories …
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Strategies Used by The Georgia University Registrar When Implementing Technology Change
The purpose of this study was to investigate strategies used by University System of Georgia registrars for implementing technological change and how those strategies align with Kotter's (1996) eight-stage model of change and registrars' readiness for change. The purposive sample was comprised of …
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Resolving Attachment Injuries in Couples Using Emotionally Focused Therapy: A Process Study
… injuries in couples and developed a preliminary model for the resolution of attachment injuries using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). An attachment injury occurred when one partner betrayed or broke the trust of the other in a specific incident and that incident became a clinically recurring …
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Increasing Chlorhexidine (CHG) Daily Bathing Compliance
… patients in the intensive care setting is one of many interventions implemented by institutions to reduce and prevent central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) and catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs). These hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) plague and …
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The Measurement of Change in a Self-Help Context
… groups are addressing the mental health needs of millions of people throughout the world, and are now being considered an important social phenomenon. However, little is known about the variety of changes experienced by individuals who participate. While there have been some attempts at outcome …
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Articulatory timing and sound change: a sociophonetic study of /st/ clusters in Seville Spanish
… investigates the phonetic realization of the consonant cluster /st/ in Sevillian Spanish, examining how social and temporal factors influence the articulation of /s/ before /t/. Four variants are analyzed: sibilant /s/, preaspiration [ʰt], postaspiration [tʰ], and resyllabification …
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Qual o nível de mudança na política externa do primeiro governo Obama contra o terrorismo para o Paquistão e o Afeganistão?
After the terrorist attacks of September 11th, terrorism was raised, as the main challenge of the International System, security and defense area. The result was the formulation of a new perception in the trend that was leading the United States’s international relations, the "Bush Doctrine". But …
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