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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"unhealthy behaviours"”.
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Killing time: the effect of boredom during unstructured leisure time on men's health
… and unmarried men die earlier than married men. Unhealthy lifestyle behaviours such as tobacco and alcohol use and physical inactivity vary by sex, age, and marital status and other sociodemographic factors and are strongly linked to the major causes of death. In combination with biological, …
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A discourse analysis of pro-anorexia webstie
… anorexia as a lifestyle choice, promoting unhealthy behaviours and normalizing, validating and reinforcing the person’s anorexic identity (Gavin, Rodham, & Poyer, 2008). Influenced by post - structuralist feminist theoretical framework, the present study employs Foucauldian discourse …
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Relationships among adolescent substance use, leisure boredom, and physical activity
… healthy lifestyle early in life (i.e., free from unhealthy behaviours such as substance use and physical inactivity). Studies examining relationships among physical activity and substance are limited and, in the past, have yielded inconsistent results. The interaction of leisure boredom with …
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Trait Emotional Intelligence: Protecting Health from the Negative Impact of Stress
… health was mediated by coping, social support or unhealthy behaviours; and second, whether the harmful effect of stressor exposure on health was moderated by trait EI subscales. The thesis focussed on two specific components of EI to aid understanding of how specific elements of trait EI influence …
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Promoting positive changes in physical activity through behavior economics
… possible policy tool to promote desirable health behaviours and discourage unhealthy ones. The apparent enthusiasm for using incentives to influence health behaviours has come about as the full economic and social costs of unhealthy behaviours have become apparent and with the finding that health …
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Engaging Student Nurses in Lifestyle Management: The Role of Technology-Based Interventions and Mobile Health Applications
… nursing students frequently struggle with unhealthy behaviours, including high rates of overweight and obesity. This thesis investigated these challenges in a student nurse population in the South West of England, exploring lifestyle patterns, perceived barriers and motivators, and the …
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A capability approach to examining the experiences and perceptions of Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) among homeless women in Cape Town
… feel inadequate. As a result, they developed unhealthy behaviours to survive the harsh realities of being homeless. This made them vulnerable to different forms of violence and affected their perception of the opportunities they believed they had access to. Based on the findings of this study, …
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Over-indebtedness and consequences for well-being
… the effect of wealth shocks on health and health behaviours, subject matter now thrown into sharp relief by the emerging consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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An evaluation of the effects of a lifestyle intervention on eating and physical activity behaviours of urban adolescents in junior public secondary schools in Botswana: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial
… health problem among adolescents due to unhealthy eating habits and inadequate physical activity. There are 434,000 (21%) adolescents aged 10-19 years in Botswana. The prevalence of overweight among adolescents aged 12-18 years in 2011 in urban private secondary schools in Botswana was …
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Cardiovascular Risk Behaviour and Health Literacy among Patients with Cardiovascular Disease in Ethiopia
… aim was to assess cardiovascular (CV) risk behaviours and related health literacy among patients with cardiovascular conditions in Ethiopia. In study 1, a hospital-based cross-sectional survey was conducted in two referral hospitals in eastern Ethiopia. Patients with a confirmed diagnosis of …