Determinants of implementing heart health: promotion activities in Ontario public health units: a social ecological perspective.

abstract：:Youth can be 'powerful catalysts' in their own and their community's development. The paper describes the experience of youth based on their participation as decision makers in and implementers of a community-based research project in a Palestinian refugee camp of Beirut, Lebanon. In-depth interviews were conducted wi...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Makhoul J,Alameddine M,Afifi RA

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two studies are reported on the effects of photographic and written information on performance in an experimental melanoma detection task. Subjects were shown slides of four types of skin lesions, including melanoma, and were asked what they would do if the lesion was on their skin. Four response options were provided...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Borland R,Mee V,Meehan JW

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medication mismanagement is a growing public health concern, especially among elders. Annually, it is a major contributor to emergency hospitalization and nursing home placement. Elders and their caregivers, as healthcare consumers and stakeholders in this issue, are uniquely qualified to inform strategies to improve ...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： O'Quin KE,Semalulu T,Orom H

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A systematic review was conducted to examine the barriers to, and facilitators of, physical activity among young people (11-16 years). The review focused on the wider determinants of health, examining community- and society-level interventions. Four trials and 16 studies of young people's views were included. Evidence...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Rees R,Kavanagh J,Harden A,Shepherd J,Brunton G,Oliver S,Oakley A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary heart disease (CHD) rates in Ireland are very high but little is known about attitudes to the disease. Qualitative attitudinal data were collected in focus group settings from 74 individuals across socio-demographic categories in order to assess knowledge of and attitudes to CHD and associated risk factors. F...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Nic Gabhainn S,Kelleher CC,Naughton AM,Carter F,Flanagan M,McGrath MJ

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a difference between bringing parties together and making them work effectively. We present a case study of an intersectoral food policy Committee, part of a three-tiered coalition nested within local municipal government, which sought to promote and nutrition in a rapidly growing metropolitan region by tackl...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Hawe P,Stickney EK

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals may be more motivated to adopt health practices if they consider the benefits of these behaviors for their close relationships. The goal of this study was to examine couple concordance with sun protection and use the interdependence and communal coping theory to evaluate the role of relationship factors in...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Manne SL,Coups EJ,Kashy DA

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Educational campaigns against health-threatening behaviors such as drug abuse may lose effectiveness because they tend to be narrow, atheoretical and to stress negative effects. As a corrective, it is proposed that health campaigns take into account the broad range of human needs and consider how the health-threateni...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： McGuire WJ

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Second-hand smoke (SHS) exposure is high among UK Bangladeshi and Pakistani populations, reflecting higher male smoking prevalence and fewer home smoking restrictions than the general population. The Muslim Communities Learning About Second-hand Smoke (MCLASS) study explored the feasibility and acceptability of implem...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： King R,Warsi S,Amos A,Shah S,Mir G,Sheikh A,Siddiqi K

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assesses similarities and differences in anti-smoking socialization beliefs of White and Native American parents in a low-income, rural population in northeastern Oklahoma. Data are from a population-based, cross-sectional children's environmental health study in which in-home interviews were conducted with...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Kegler MC,Malcoe LH

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soaring obesity rates in the United States demand comprehensive health intervention strategies that simultaneously address dietary patterns, physical activity, psychosocial factors and the food environment. Healthy Bodies, Healthy Souls (HBHS) is a church-based, community-participatory, cluster-randomized health inter...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Wang HE,Lee M,Hart A,Summers AC,Anderson Steeves E,Gittelsohn J

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although low socio-economic status (SES) persons with diabetes show low levels of physical activity (PA), there is limited knowledge regarding which media is effective in improving their PA. This study aimed to determine the appropriate media for providing PA-related information to persons with diabetes in low SES com...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Ko D,Myung E,Moon TJ,Shah DV

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study identified factors that influence regular soda consumption among 707 female students, aged 13-18 years, attending North Los Angeles County public high schools. Participants completed a group-administered Theory of Planned Behavior-based questionnaire. Almost all of the participants, 96.3%, reported that the...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Kassem NO,Lee JW,Modeste NN,Johnston PK

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Readability and usability problems with patient information leaflets continue to be reported despite long-standing recognition of their existence and the availability of guidelines for developing health education materials. This exploratory study examined possible causes for such problems, based on interviews with pro...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Gal I,Prigat A

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study followed a predominantly qualitative approach to explore the perspectives of employers in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, call centres (CCs) regarding physical activity (PA) promotion in workplaces, by identifying current practices and employers' motivation to promote PA, as well as perceived facilitators and bar...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Renton SJ,Lightfoot NE,Maar MA

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study obtained qualitative data to assess how parental role modeling and parental social support influence physical activity in underserved (minority, low-income) adolescents. Fifty-two adolescents (22 males, 30 females; ages 10-14 years, 85% African-American) participated in a focus group (6-10 per group, same g...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Wright MS,Wilson DK,Griffin S,Evans A

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article provides a theory-based, step-by-step approach to intervention development and illustrates its application in India to design an intervention to promote tobacco-use cessation among school personnel in Bihar. We employed a five-step approach to develop the intervention using the Social Contextual Model of ...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Nagler EM,Pednekar MS,Viswanath K,Sinha DN,Aghi MB,Pischke CR,Ebbeling CB,Lando HA,Gupta PC,Sorensen GC

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community-based distributors (CBDs) have been trained and utilized to promote a variety of health commodities. In addition, a variety of different types of community residents have been trained ranging from traditional birth attendants (TBAs) to patent medicine vendors. A training programme for CBD agents in the Akiny...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Ande O,Oladepo O,Brieger WR

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The school is an important setting for physical activity. The purpose of the present study was to examine the association between physical environmental characteristics and participation in daily physical activity during school breaks. Data from 130 schools and 16 471 students (Grades 4-10) in Norway were obtained in ...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Haug E,Torsheim T,Sallis JF,Samdal O

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to assess the extent to which parents and school-based stakeholders (principals, teachers, canteen managers and Parents & Citizen Committee presidents) are supportive of potential expansions to a new school food policy. Eight additional policy components elicited in preliminary focus groups w...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Pettigrew S,Pescud M,Donovan RJ

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports on a study undertaken with health promotion specialists working in the National Health Service in England. In-depth interviews were held with 25 people with the aim of investigating the place of research and evaluation in health promotion practice, the contextual factors that influenced such activit...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： South J,Tilford S

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the psychometric properties of a new scale to measure adolescents' worry regarding outcomes of risky sexual behavior (i.e. sexually transmitted infections, including HIV [STI/HIV], and unintended pregnancy). The 10-item worry about sexual outcomes (WASO) scale, resulting in two subscales STI/HIV wo...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Sales JM,Spitalnick J,Milhausen RR,Wingood GM,DiClemente RJ,Salazar LF,Crosby RA

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New health promotion and public health approaches such as media advocacy pose particular evaluation challenges. Evaluation is important to provide feedback to media advocacy practitioners on how to enhance their efforts, and to funders and researchers seeking to assess media advocacy's effectiveness as a health promot...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Stead M,Hastings G,Eadie D

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to assess whether our online closed community heart care support group and information resource could sustain changes in health behaviour after the moderators withdrew their support. Heart patients (n = 108) living in a deprived area of Greater Manchester were recruited from general practitio...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Lindsay S,Smith S,Bellaby P,Baker R

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is hypothesized that perceived morbidity, a concept closely related to perceived vulnerability, is an important determinant of health behaviors. In this cross-sectional study (N = 2740), perceived morbidity was conceptualized as a categorical variable defining six distinct morbidity groups: the hypertension, high...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Fuchs R,Heath GW,Wheeler FC

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been some concern that participation in an intervention and exposure to a measurement instrument can change participants' interpretation of the items on a self-report questionnaire thereby distorting subsequent responses and biasing results. Differential item functioning (DIF) analysis using item response mo...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Baranowski T,Allen DD,Mâsse LC,Wilson M

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the medical visit is widely acknowledged as an important event presenting unique opportunities for the modification of health beliefs and behaviors, health education theory has provided few explanatory mechanisms for understanding its communication process. The purpose of this paper is to explore a theoretica...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Roter DL,Hall JA

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined a prediction model that integrated three categories of predictors likely to influence adoption of the Quebec Healthy Schools (HS) approach, i.e. attributes of the approach, individual and contextual characteristics. HS receptivity was considered as a potential mediator. For this study, 141 responde...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Deschesnes M,Trudeau F,Kébé M

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the minimally required feedback elements of a computer-tailored dietary fat reduction intervention to be effective in improving fat intake. In all 588 Healthy Dutch adults were randomly allocated to one of four conditions in an randomized controlled trial: (i) feedback on dietary fat intake [pe...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Kroeze W,Oenema A,Dagnelie PC,Brug J

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our objective was to establish the short-term outcomes for successful tobacco cessation of a programme offering UK resident Bangladeshi women chewing paan with tobacco nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) in addition to brief advice and encouragement alone. We used a short-term longitudinal, quasi-experimental study des...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Croucher R,Islam S,Jarvis MJ,Garrett M,Rahman R,Shajahan S,Howells G

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00