Does participation in an intervention affect responses on self-report questionnaires?

abstract：:This paper describes the development and first results of a brief self-management course for patients recently diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. The intervention incorporates elements from proactive coping and self-regulation theory in a five-step plan to help newly diagnosed patients formulate and carry out intentions ...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Thoolen B,de Ridder D,Bensing J,Gorter K,Rutten G

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AIDS is a disease which has received a great deal of attention from the popular media, which in turn has attracted the interests of those who analyse media. The health information conveyed to the general public by the popular press is a topic of special interest to health educators. This paper documents the Australi...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Lupton DA

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Qualitative research may be able to provide an answer as to why adults and children do or do not participate in sport and physical activity. This paper systematically examines published and unpublished qualitative research studies of UK children's and adults' reasons for participation and non-participation in sport an...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Allender S,Cowburn G,Foster C

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of increasing young women's level of physical activity is recognized as a priority within the United Kingdom and other Westernized nations. This study, conducted in two distinct geographical locations in the United Kingdom, explores the leading influences upon levels of physical activity participation a...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Coleman L,Cox L,Roker D

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Romania has the highest cervical cancer burden in Europe. Despite the implementation of two human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programmes, the uptake remained extremely low and the programmes were discontinued. Given that media are a common source of information for the public and may influence vaccination decisio...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Penţa MA,Băban A

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Internet offers a unique means of health promotion through the use of interactive tools like chat rooms, E-mail, hyperlinks and the like. This paper reports a study examining links between learning and interactivity of health-related websites. We address three research questions. First, are tools of interactivity ...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Stout PA,Villegas J,Kim H

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews evidence of the impact which television generally, and drama series in particular, can have on health beliefs, attitudes and behaviours. It describes how a television series, The Family House, was planned in Egypt to disseminate key health messages in an entertaining context. As only a very small nu...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Elkamel F

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports the effect of a school-randomized fruit and vegetable intervention consisting of a subscription to the Norwegian School Fruit Programme at no parental cost, and the Fruit and Vegetables Make the Marks (FVMM) educational programme, both delivered in the school year of 2001-02. Nine randomly chosen sc...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Bere E,Veierød MB,Bjelland M,Klepp KI

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given that self-efficacy has emerged as a key construct in health psychology, this study set out to explore its utility in the context of blood donation as defined within the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). An Ajzen and Fishbein-type questionnaire was administered to 100 undergraduate students at the University of ...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Giles M,McClenahan C,Cairns E,Mallet J

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We offer a framework and exemplify how to integrate multiple community perspectives in research to develop breast cancer screening interventions among Latinas non-adherent to national guidelines. We leverage members of an academic institution's community consultative service [community engagement advisory board (CEAB)...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Molina Y,Watson KS,San Miguel LG,Aguirre K,Hernandez-Flores M,Giraldo TB,Lucio A,Coronado N,Matthews PA

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A smoking prevention project in six European countries (European Smoking prevention Framework Approach) was developed, featuring activities for adolescents, schools and parents, including out-of-school activities. Consensus meetings resulted in agreement between the countries on goals, objectives and theoretical metho...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： de Vries H,Mudde A,Leijs I,Charlton A,Vartiainen E,Buijs G,Clemente MP,Storm H,González Navarro A,Nebot M,Prins T,Kremers S

更新日期：2003-10-01 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 studies indicate school-based HIV/AIDS education programs effectively reduce risky behaviors, only 33 states and the District of Columbia in US mandate HIV/AIDS education. Ideally, school-based HIV/AIDS education should begin before puberty, or at the latest before first sexual intercourse. In 2011, 20% US st...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Ma ZQ,Fisher MA,Kuller LH

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although program recipients' attitudes toward instructors are crucial to program outcomes, they have not been adequately examined in the substance abuse prevention literature. This study uses survey data to explore attitudes toward instructors of prevention programming held by students from a national longitudinal eva...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Hammond A,Sloboda Z,Tonkin P,Stephens R,Teasdale B,Grey SF,Williams J

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Message tailoring is a promising innovative approach to persuasive communication that involves designing messages to meet a person's psychological, behavioral and/or demographic characteristics. Although the tailored intervention literature has many strengths, a weakness is inconsistency in reporting information relat...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Harrington NG,Noar SM

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:British Government policy on drugs primary prevention is outlined and principal recommendations are identified. The review is organized under the four main providers: police, teachers, peers and parents. Current methods are reviewed within a British policy framework with a focus on British programmes which have been e...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Allott R,Paxton R,Leonard R

更新日期：1999-08-01 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：:This paper reports research into the determinants of four cancer-related risk behaviours: smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, high fat consumption and exposure to artificial sunlight. The results indicate that the four types of risk behaviour are determined by several factors: the perceived behaviour of the soc...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： van Assema P,Pieterse M,Kok G,Eriksen M,de Vries H

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explored the role of donor prototype evaluations (perceptions of the typical organ donor) in organ donation communication decisions using an extended theory of planned behaviour (TPB) model. The model incorporated attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioural control, moral norm, self-identity, and donor...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Hyde MK,White KM

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：: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：:This paper describes development of a new measure to assess one dimension of health motivation, the salience of health concerns. The new, five-item, measure was administered to 578 women as part of a larger investigation examining the determinants of exercise and calcium consumption. The study used a cross-sectional s...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Blalock SJ,DeVellis RF

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As countries experience the 'epidemiological transition' with a relative decline in infectious diseases, accident rates tend to increase, particularly road traffic accidents. The health promotion interventions intended to prevent or minimize the consequences of accidents have been developed in predominantly Western, i...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Dixey RA

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultural sensitivity is increasingly recognized as a means to enhance the effectiveness of health promotion programmes all over the world. Sociocultural meanings and terminology of diseases are important in understanding how different groups perceive and interpret illness. This study was conducted as part of the proce...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Sifunda S,Reddy PS,Braithwaite RB,Stephens T,Bhengu S,Ruiter RA,Van Den Borne B

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Threat appeals are used frequently in health promotion, with threats of (premature) death common in some areas, e.g. 'quit smoking or you'll die'. There is a common notion that young people feel they are immortal. Accordingly, we investigated whether young people would respond less to threats of death than to non-deat...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Henley N,Donovan RJ

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smokebusters is a community-based smoking prevention initiative for young children which aims to prevent them from starting to smoke. Despite the increase of Smokebusters clubs throughout the UK and Europe there is little published evidence of the effectiveness of this health promotion intervention. The aim of this st...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Bruce J,van Teijlingen E

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between condom norms and unprotected sexual intercourse was examined within social and sexual networks of young African American men who have sex with men (MSM) in an HIV epicenter of the southern United States. We used a chain-link design to recruit 158 young African American men: 95 initial participa...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Peterson JL,Rothenberg R,Kraft JM,Beeker C,Trotter R

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Vaccinating school-aged children has been demonstrated to be beneficial to the child and in reducing viral transmission to vulnerable groups such as the elderly. This qualitative study sought to identify reasons parents and students...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Herbert NL,Gargano LM,Painter JE,Sales JM,Morfaw C,Murray D,Diclemente RJ,Hughes JM

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the evaluation of an adoption strategy for the school-based healthy diet programme Krachtvoer. Health promotion (HP) professionals from five Regional Public Health Services (RPHSs) in The Netherlands were asked to recruit a total of 25 schools to adopt the Krachtvoer programme in accordance with t...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Bessems KM,van Assema P,Paulussen TW,de Vries NK

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Southeast Asian women are at exceedingly high risk for cervical cancer, low rates of the Pap testing necessary for early detection and successful treatment continue among this group. Previous research suggests that discussions about Pap testing with important people in a woman's life, particularly her doctor,...

journal_title：Health education research

authors： Love GD,Mouttapa M,Tanjasiri SP

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00