Progress in public health and community-based interventions has been hampered by the
lack of a comprehensive evaluation framework appropriate to such programs. Multilevel …

Overview: Risky behaviors are a leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality, yet
behavioral counseling interventions to address them are underutilized in healthcare …

Realistic Evaluation shows how programme evaluation needs to be, and can be bettered. It
presents a profound yet highly readable critique of current evaluation practice, and goes on …

OBJECTIVES. A major assumption underlying youth health promotion has been that
physiological risk factors track from childhood into adulthood. However, few studies have …

In 1995 the Division 12 Task Force on Promotion and Dissemination of Psychological
Procedures published its report in this journal. A major focus of that report was increasing …

Self-referent thought has become an issue that pervades psychological research in many
domains. In 1977, the famous psychologist Albert Bandura at Stanford University introduced …

Intervention strategies that can produce successful rates of long-term behavior change have
proven elusive and indicate the need for new approaches to this vexing problem. However …

Studies of smoking relapse and temptation episodes have relied on retrospective recall and
confounded between-and within-subject variability. Real-time data on temptations and …

OBJECTIVE: To identify variables predictive of smoking cessation in a cohort of cigarette
smokers followed for five years. DESIGN: Data analysed in this paper come from a cohort …

Marriage is a ubiquitous social status that consistently is linked to health. Despite this, there
has been very little theory development or related research on the extent to which couple …