Interventions to change health behaviours: evidence-based or evidence-inspired?

S Michie, C Abraham - Psychology & Health, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
This critical review assesses whether evaluation studies can answer three key questions
about behaviour change interventions:'Do they work? How well do they work? How do they …

An application of the theory of planned behaviour to blood donation: the importance of self-efficacy

M Giles, C McClenahan, E Cairns… - Health education …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Given that self-efficacy has emerged as a key construct in health psychology, this study set
out to explore its utility in the context of blood donation as defined within the Theory of …

Questions raised by a reasoned action approach: comment on Ogden (2003).

I Ajzen, M Fishbein - 2004 - psycnet.apa.org
In her critique of social cognition or reasoned action models, J. Ogden (2003) claimed that
such models are not falsifiable and thus cannot be tested, that the postulated relations …

Deciding to exercise: The role of anticipated regret

C Abraham, P Sheeran - British journal of health psychology, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives: Two studies tested (a) whether anticipated regret (AR) qualifies as an additional
predictor of intentions to engage in a health‐enhancing behaviour (exercise) after variables …

Individual differences in sensitivity to health communications: consideration of future consequences.

S Orbell, M Perugini, T Rakow - Health Psychology, 2004 - psycnet.apa.org
There are reliable individual differences in the extent to which people consider the long-and
short-term consequences of their behaviors. Such differences, assessed by the …

Motivation is not enough: prediction of risk behavior following diagnosis of coronary heart disease from the theory of planned behavior.

DW Johnston, M Johnston, B Pollard… - Health …, 2004 - psycnet.apa.org
Perceived behavioral control (PBC) and intention, the proximal predictors from the theory of
planned behavior (TPB), were used to predict cardiovascular risk behaviors in 597 patients …

The theory of planned behavior and breast self‐examination: Distinguishing between perceived control and self‐efficacy

P Norman, S Hoyle - Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reports an application of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to the prediction of
breast self‐examination (BSE) intentions and behavior. The study also considered the …

RCT of a theory-based intervention promoting healthy eating and physical activity amongst out-patients older than 65 years

K Kelley, C Abraham - Social science & medicine, 2004 - Elsevier
A randomised controlled trial was used to evaluate a theory-based health promotion
intervention. The intervention, a healthy living booklet, was designed to promote healthy …

[PDF][PDF] Rethinking conceptual approaches to behaviour change: The importance of context

W Parker - Centre for AIDS Development, Research and …, 2004 - researchgate.net
This article critically reviews the concept of behaviour change as it has been applied to
individual behaviour in relation to HIV/AIDS. It notes the limits of cognitive approaches to …

Practice nurses' intentions to use clinical guidelines

S Puffer, A Rashidian - Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Background. Evidence indicates that, although nurses are increasingly using clinical
guidelines to ensure higher quality of care, there is a wide variance in their adherence to …