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Victor J. Strecher
Researcher at University of Michigan
Publications - 137
Citations - 20079
Victor J. Strecher is an academic researcher from University of Michigan. The author has contributed to research in topics: Smoking cessation & Behavior change. The author has an hindex of 58, co-authored 132 publications receiving 18527 citations. Previous affiliations of Victor J. Strecher include United States Department of Veterans Affairs & Group Health Cooperative.
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Social Learning Theory and the Health Belief Model
TL;DR: This article posits a revised explanatory model which incorporates self-efficacy into the Health Belief Model, and predicts that the new formulation will more fully account for health-related behavior than did earlier formulations, and will suggest more effective behavioral interventions than have hitherto been available to health educators.
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The Role of Self-Efficacy in Achieving Health Behavior Change
TL;DR: This review focuses on cigarette smoking, weight control, contraception, alcohol abuse and exercise behaviors, and suggests strong relationships between self-efficacy and health behavior change and maintenance.
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The Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) and the Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART): New Methods for More Potent eHealth Interventions
TL;DR: Two new methods for building and evaluating eHealth interventions are described, including the Multiphase Optimization Strategy, which is an innovative research design especially suited for building time-varying adaptive interventions.
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One size does not fit all: the case for tailoring print materials.
TL;DR: The purpose of this article is to distinguish between tailored print communication and other common communication-based approaches to health education and behavior change, and present a theoretical and public health rationale for tailoring health information.
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The Health Belief Model and HIV Risk Behavior Change
TL;DR: The Health Belief Model (HBM) as discussed by the authors was developed in the 1950s by a group of social psychologists in the U.S. Public Health Service in an effort to explain the widespread failure of people to participate in programs to prevent or to detect disease.