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Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques

Evaluating complex interventions is complicated. The Medical Research Council9s evaluation framework (2000) brought welcome clarity to the task. Now the council has updated its guidance

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Developing and evaluating complex interventions: The new Medical Research Council guidance

The Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) has received considerable attention in the literature. The present study is a quantitative integration and review of that research. From a database of 185 independent studies published up to the end of 1997, the TPB accounted for 27% and 39% of the variance in behaviour and intention, respectively. The perceived behavioural control (PBC) construct accounted for significant amounts of variance in intention and behaviour, independent of theory of reasoned action variables. When behaviour measures were self-reports, the TPB accounted for 11% more of the variance in behaviour than when behaviour measures were objective or observed (R2s = .31 and .21, respectively). Attitude, subjective norm and PBC account for significantly more of the variance in individuals' desires than intentions or self-predictions, but intentions and self-predictions were better predictors of behaviour. The subjective norm construct is generally found to be a weak predictor of intentions. This is partly attributable to a combination of poor measurement and the need for expansion of the normative component. The discussion focuses on ways in which current TPB research can be taken forward in the light of the present review.

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Efficacy of the Theory of Planned Behaviour: a meta-analytic review.

In this chapter a theory of motivation and emotion developed from an attributional perspective is presented Before undertaking this central task, it might be beneficial to review the progression of the book In Chapter 1 it was suggested that causal attributions have been prevalent throughout history and in disparate cultures Studies reviewed in Chapter 2 revealed a large number of causal ascriptions within motivational domains, and different ascriptions in disparate domains Yet some attributions, particularly ability and effort in the achievement area, dominate causal thinking To compare and contrast causes such as ability and effort, their common denominators or shared properties were identified Three causal dimensions, examined in Chapter 3, are locus, stability, and controllability, with intentionality and globality as other possible causal properties As documented in Chapter 4, the perceived stability of a cause influences the subjective probability of success following a previous success or failure; causes perceived as enduring increase the certainty that the prior outcome will be repeated in the future And all the causal dimensions, as well as the outcome of an activity and specific causes, influence the emotions experienced after attainment or nonattainment of a goal The affects linked to causal dimensions include pride (with locus), hopelessness and resignation (with stability), and anger, gratitude, guilt, pity, and shame (with controllability)

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An attributional theory of achievement motivation and emotion.

This work was supported by British Heart Foundation and Stroke Association (TSA BHF 2011/01).

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Barriers to Medication Adherence for the Secondary Prevention of Stroke: A Qualitative Interview study

Purpose – The purpose of this study was twofold: first, to optimize the Environmental Attitudes Inventory (EAI) and second, to establish a baseline of the difference in environmental attitudes between first and final year students, taken at the start of a university’s declaration of commitment to EfS. Design/methodology/approach – The psychometrically designed EAI was used to overcome the problems and limitations of the much-used, but controversial, revised New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) Scale. The performance of the original 72-item EAI was compared with our 37-item reduced form using a population of first- and final-year university students. Findings – The reduced 37-item EAI provides a reliable and valid tool for investigating structured, multi-dimensional environmental attitudes of university students while reducing response burden and increasing response and completion rates compared with the longer versions of the EAI. Research limitations/implications – No attempt is made to link elements of the ...

Optimizing the Environmental Attitudes Inventory: Establishing a Baseline of Change in Students' Attitudes.

Data on stage of change was collected between 1997-1999 on 4125 adolescent nonsmokers and smokers from central England who completed two versions of the stage of change algorithm for smoking acquisition and cessation. The fit of the latent variable defined by the spiral of change to adolescents' responses to the staging questions was examined using latent class analysis. Whether a model of sequential transition across stages fitted the observed transitions was tested with latent transition analysis (LTA). There was reasonable support for the staging algorithm but no evidence of sequential stage transition. The research was funded by Cancer Research UK.

Using latent class and latent transition analysis to examine the transtheoretical model staging algorithm and sequential stage transition in adolescent smoking.

This study was designed to examine the response of smokers to shortening their usual brand of cigarettes. The shortening reduces the dose of smoke available from each cigarette without affecting concentration and therefore differs from dose reduction by dilution, which occurs when smokers switch to cigarettes with lower tar and nicotine deliveries. Measures of smoking behavior (e.g., cigarette consumption, puff rate), mouth-level nicotine intake (calculated from butt content), and intake to the lungs (plasma nicotine and COHb) were made in 10 smokers after 48 hr ad libitum smoking of full, three-quarter, and half-length cigarettes in a Latin square design. Mouth-level smoke intake was maintained on shortened cigarettes due to a combination of 2 types of compensatory maneuver: (1) by increasing the intensity of puffing and thereby extracting proportionately more of the smoke available from each cigarette and (2) by smoking more cigarettes. The amount of smoke inhaled, on the other hand, was only partially maintained (58% compensation). This was achieved by increase in cigarette consumption alone. There was no evidence of any compensatory increase in the amount of smoke inhaled from each cigarette. Increase in consumption was thus the only maneuver that contributed to maintaining smoke intake at lung level; mouth-level intake was regulated by increasing intake per cigarette as well as consumption.



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Papers

Barriers to Medication Adherence for the Secondary Prevention of Stroke: A Qualitative Interview study

Optimizing the Environmental Attitudes Inventory: Establishing a Baseline of Change in Students' Attitudes.

Using latent class and latent transition analysis to examine the transtheoretical model staging algorithm and sequential stage transition in adolescent smoking.

Smokers' response to shortened cigarettes: Dose reduction without dilution of tobacco smoke

Interpreting relapse curves.