Interventions to change health-related behaviours typically have modest effects and may be
more effective if grounded in appropriate theory. Most theories applied to public health …

OBJECTIVE: Computer-tailored interventions have become increasingly common for
facilitating improvement in behaviors related to chronic disease and health promotion. A …

Background Healthcare professionals frequently advise people to improve their health by
stopping smoking. Such advice may be brief, or part of more intensive interventions …

Background Cigarette smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable death world
wide. There is good evidence that brief interventions from health professionals can increase …

This chapter provides an overview of the literature on tailored health communication
messages, an innovative area of health communication research that has broad applicability …

Background The transtheoretical model is the most widely known of several stage‐based
theories of behaviour. It proposes that smokers move through a discrete series of …

Background The effects of Web-and computer-based smoking cessation programs are
inconsistent in randomized controlled trials (RCTs). We evaluated those effects using a meta …

Tailored health communication research represents a very promising line of inquiry that has
the potential to produce major impacts on lifestyle behaviors. This study defines tailoring and …

Background: Smoking is harmful to health. On average, lifelong smokers lose 10 years of
life, and about half of all lifelong smokers have their lives shortened by smoking. Stopping …

There is a long way to go to develop a healthcare system that supports getting patients more
active. As the burden of chronic disease associated with inactivity is growing at a staggering …