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Health Promotion by Social Cognitive Means
Tập 31 Số 2 - Trang 143-164 - 2004
This article examines health promotion and disease prevention from the
perspective of social cognitive theory. This theory posits a multifaceted causal
structure in which self-efficacy beliefs operate together with goals, outcome
expectations, and perceived environmental impediments and facilitators in the
regulation of human motivation, behavior, and well-being. Belief in one’s
efficacy to exerci...
A Meta-Analysis of Fear Appeals: Implications for Effective Public Health Campaigns
Tập 27 Số 5 - Trang 591-615 - 2000
The fear appeal literature is examined in a comprehensive synthesis using
meta-analytical techniques. The meta-analysis suggests that strong fear appeals
produce high levels of perceived severity and susceptibility, and are more
persuasive than low or weak fear appeals. The results also indicate that fear
appeals motivate adaptive danger control actions such as message acceptance and
maladaptive f...
Achieving Cultural Appropriateness in Health Promotion Programs: Targeted and Tailored Approaches
Tập 30 Số 2 - Trang 133-146 - 2003
It is a truism of health education that programs and interventions will be more
effective when they are culturally appropriate for the populations they serve.
In practice, however, the strategies used to achieve cultural appropriateness
vary widely. This article briefly describes five strategies commonly used to
target programs to culturally defined groups. It then explains how a sixth
approach, c...
Health Literacy and Health Actions: A Review and a Framework From Health Psychology
Tập 36 Số 5 - Trang 860-877 - 2009
The association between performance on health literacy measures and health
outcomes is well established. The next step is to understand the processes
through which health literacy affects health. This review introduces a framework
drawing on ideas from health psychology and proposing that associations between
health literacy and health outcomes could be mediated by a range of health
actions involv...
Physical Activity and Minority Women: A Qualitative Study
Tập 25 Số 5 - Trang 640-652 - 1998
Few physical activity research studies have been conducted with minority women.
The purpose of this study was to explore patterns of physical activity among
minority women. Focus groups were conducted with volunteers older than age 40.
Each group was led by a trained moderator familiar with the ethnic community
targeted. The sessions were audiotaped and professionally transcribed.
Constructs were ...
Making the Most of Collaboration: Exploring the Relationship Between Partnership Synergy and Partnership Functioning
Tập 29 Số 6 - Trang 683-698 - 2002
Considering the challenges inherent to collaboration and the time it takes to
achieve measurable outcomes, partnerships need a way to determine, at an early
stage, whether they are making the most of collaboration. The authors have
developed a new measure, partnership synergy, which assesses the degree to which
a partnership’s collaborative process successfully combines its participants’
perspecti...
Peer and Parent Influences on Smoking and Drinking among Early Adolescents
Tập 28 Số 1 - Trang 95-107 - 2001
Social influences can promote or discourage adolescent substance use. The
authors surveyed 4,263 sixth- to eighth-grade students to assess the effect of
peer and parent influences on adolescent substance use. The authors conducted
separate multiple logistic regression analyses for smoking and drinking,
controlling for grade, sex, and race. Positive independent associations with
smoking and drinkin...
Personal Responsibility for Health? A Review of the Arguments and the Evidence at Century’s End
Tập 26 Số 1 - Trang 121-141 - 1999
This article examines the continuing controversies regarding personal versus
social responsibility for health as they are being played out at the turn of the
century. Following a brief examination of the contested meaning of “personal
responsibility for health” in recent historical context, attention is focused on
the arguments for and against holding the individual to be primarily accountable
for...
A Randomized School Trial of Environmental Strategies to Encourage Fruit and Vegetable Consumption among Children
Tập 31 Số 1 - Trang 65-76 - 2004
The Cafeteria Power Plus project examined whether a cafeteria-based intervention
would increase the fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption of children. Twenty-six
schools were randomly assigned to either an intervention or control condition.
Baseline lunch observations of a sample ( N = 1668) of first- and third-grade
students occurred in the spring of 2000; follow-up was in the spring of 2002.
The ...
Promoting Environmental Justice Through Community-Based Participatory Research: The Role of Community and Partnership Capacity
Tập 35 Số 1 - Trang 119-137 - 2008
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) increasingly is being used to
study and address environmental justice. This article presents the results of a
cross-site case study of four CBPR partnerships in the United States that
researched environmental health problems and worked to educate legislators and
promote relevant public policy. The authors focus on community and partnership
capacity wit...