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The health consciousness myth: implications of the near independence of major health behaviors in the North American population.
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Analysis of over 250,000 respondents from four of the largest epidemiological surveys in North America indicates that major health behaviors are largely unrelated to one another, with implications for health behavior theories and interventions predicated on the notion that the health conscious individual attempts to improve his or her health by engaging in more than one of these behaviors at a time.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 2005-01-01. It has received 177 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Public health & Population.read more
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The pleasure and displeasure people feel when they exercise at different intensities: decennial update and progress towards a tripartite rationale for exercise intensity prescription.
TL;DR: The evidence of a doseresponse relation between exercise intensity and affect sets the stage for a reconsideration of the rationale behind current guidelines for exercise intensity prescription.
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The role of health consciousness, food safety concern and ethical identity on attitudes and intentions towards organic food
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the roles of health consciousness, food safety concern and ethical self-identity in predicting attitude and purchase intention within the context of organic produce and found that food safety was the most important predictor of attitude while health consciousness appears to be the least important motive in contrast to findings from some previous research.
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Consumer purchase intention for organic personal care products
Hee Yeon Kim,Jae-Eun Chung +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the theory of planned behavior to examine the effects of consumer values and past experiences on consumer purchase intention of organic personal care products, and they found that environmental consciousness and appearance consciousness positively influence attitude toward buying organic products.
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Gender and Health: The Effects of Constrained Choices and Social Policies
Chloe E. Bird,Patricia P. Rieker +1 more
TL;DR: 1. Gender differences in health: are they biological, social or both? 2. Gender and barriers to health: constrained choice in everyday decisions
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Adherence in Internet-based interventions.
TL;DR: Automated follow-up of users via email seems likely to increase adherence and should be included in Internet-based interventions, and Tailoring on baseline covariates to adherence such as self-efficacy could make them even more effective.
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Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences
TL;DR: The concepts of power analysis are discussed in this paper, where Chi-square Tests for Goodness of Fit and Contingency Tables, t-Test for Means, and Sign Test are used.
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On the Practice of Dichotomization of Quantitative Variables
TL;DR: The authors present the case that dichotomization is rarely defensible and often will yield misleading results.
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The Healthy Eating Index: design and applications.
TL;DR: The HEI is a useful index of overall diet quality of the consumer and will be used by the US Department of Agriculture to monitor changes in dietary intake over time and as the basis of nutrition promotion activities for the population.
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The Cost of Dichotomization
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the consequences of dichotomization in measurement applications and show that the costs in variance accounted for and in power are even larger than in real data, since methods are available for making use of all the original scaling information.
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Toward a theory-based analysis of behavioral maintenance.
TL;DR: This article reviews how the dominant models of health behavior change have operationalized the psychological processes that guide the initiation and maintenance of a new pattern of behavior and proposes an alternative framework based on the premise that the decision criteria that lead people to initiate a change in their behavior are different from those that lead them to maintain that behavior.