Effect of Air Quality Alerts on Intended Behavior Change

2020 ◽  
pp. 386-393
Author(s):  
Megan Peaslee ◽  
Josh Nelson ◽  
Ellen Reed ◽  
Lukas Sexton
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Behavior Change ◽  
Intended Behavior

Effectiveness of a Pediatric Abusive Head Trauma Prevention Program Among Spanish-Speaking Mothers

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
Sarah V. Duzinski ◽  
Luis M. Guevara ◽  
Amanda N. Barczyk ◽  
Nilda M. Garcia ◽  
Jane L. Cassel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Change ◽  
Hospital Discharge ◽  
Head Trauma ◽  
Retrospective Review ◽  
Prevention Program ◽  
Abusive Head Trauma ◽  
Significant Other ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
Intended Behavior ◽  
Spanish Speaking Population

Introduction: This study aimed to evaluate participants’ knowledge of and intent to share key messages of the Period of PURPLE Crying abusive head trauma prevention program among a majority Spanish-speaking population. Methods: This study was a retrospective review of a postintervention survey administered in the perinatal unit of a community birthing hospital. Surveys were administered to mothers of newborns by perinatal nurses as part of routine process evaluation prior to hospital discharge between May 30, 2014, and May 15, 2015. Results: A majority of participants (86.4%) answered all six knowledge questions correctly. Among participants who reported that the father or significant other was not present during the PURPLE education (44.1%), all (100%) reported intending to share the PURPLE information with their partners. The majority of participants (88.1%) intended to share the information with others who take care of their infants. Conclusion: The PURPLE abusive head trauma prevention program demonstrated positive preliminary results in knowledge and intended behavior among a population of majority Spanish-speaking participants. These findings offer an important first step toward provision of effective universal abusive head trauma prevention among growing Spanish-speaking populations. Further evaluation is needed of acceptability, retention of messages, and postintervention behavior change among Spanish-speaking participants and nurses.

Need for Approval as Related to the Effects of Persuasive Communications on Actual, Reported and Intended Behavior Change—A Viable Predictor?

1973 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 719-725 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Rozelle ◽  
Richard I. Evans ◽  
Thomas M. Lasater ◽  
Theodore M. Dembroski ◽  
Bem P. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Change ◽  
Dental Hygiene ◽  
Maximal Effect ◽  
Natural Setting ◽  
Social Approval ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Persuasive Communications ◽  
Intended Behavior ◽  
The Social ◽  
Need For Approval

Need-for-approval scores were examined for possible relationships with various persuasive appeals, including one in which the social-approval content was predicted to have maximal effect on Ss high in need for approval. The study was conducted in the context of a large project in a natural setting ostensibly for the purpose of improving dental hygiene. Dependent measures included behavioral as well as reported responses in all experimental conditions. Although a trend in the predicted direction was obtained for the intention-to-behave measure, need-for-approval scores generally failed to predict the significant changes that were obtained. Implications of utilizing personality measures such as this one as related to attitude-behavior change are discussed.

A Model for Exercise Behavior Change Regulation in Patients with Heart Disease

2007 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Slovinec D’Angelo ◽  
Robert D. Reid ◽  
Luc G. Pelletier
Keyword(s):  
Heart Disease ◽  
Behavior Change ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Intended Behavior ◽  
Habitual Exercise ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Intention Formation

Despite the known benefits of habitual exercise in patients with heart disease, less than half of these patients exercise regularly and many of those who initiate programs fail to maintain physical activity routines over the long term. The aim of this research was to examine processes related to short- and long-term regulation of exercise to gain a clearer understanding of why people might fail to maintain intended behavioral changes. We modeled intention formation and plan formulation to investigate the distinct roles of self-efficacy and motivation (self-determination) in different phases of behavior change. Our results showed self-efficacy to be more relevant to exercise intentions and motivation to exercise planning. This research provides evidence supporting the proposition that the psychological processes related to short- and long-term regulation of behavior change differ and suggests that people might fail to continue regulating intended behavior owing to a lack of self-determined motivation.

Application of Electron Optics to Characterization of Particulate Pollutants

1972 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 364-365
Author(s):  
J. B. Moran ◽  
J. L. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Quality Standards ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Hazardous Substances ◽  
Fuel Additives ◽  
Ambient Air Quality ◽  
Air Quality Standards ◽  
Emission Standards ◽  
Stationary Sources ◽  
Ambient Air Quality Standards

The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970 provide the basis for a dramatic change in Federal air quality programs. The Act establishes new standards for motor vehicles and requires EPA to establish national ambient air quality standards, standards of performance for new stationary sources of pollution, and standards for stationary sources emitting hazardous substances. Further, it establishes procedures which allow states to set emission standards for existing sources in order to achieve national ambient air quality standards. The Act also permits the Administrator of EPA to register fuels and fuel additives and to regulate the use of motor vehicle fuels or fuel additives which pose a hazard to public health or welfare.National air quality standards for particulate matter have been established. Asbestos, mercury, and beryllium have been designated as hazardous air pollutants for which Federal emission standards have been proposed.

Articulatory Intervention for the Visually Impaired

1979 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 139-144
Author(s):  
Cheri L. Florance ◽  
Judith O’Keefe
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Behavior Change ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
School Students ◽  
Handicapped Children ◽  
Paired Stimuli ◽  
Visually Handicapped ◽  
Parent Program

A modification of the Paired-Stimuli Parent Program (Florance, 1977) was adapted for the treatment of articulatory errors of visually handicapped children. Blind high school students served as clinical aides. A discussion of treatment methodology, and the results of administrating the program to 32 children, including a two-year follow-up evaluation to measure permanence of behavior change, is presented.

Air Quality May Affect Infants' Brains

ASHA Leader ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-34
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality

Air Quality May Affect Infants' Brains

What Can We Learn From Factorial Surveys About Human Behavior?

Methodology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Knut Petzold ◽  
Tobias Wolbring
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Actual Behavior ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Factorial Survey ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Intended Behavior ◽  
The Social ◽  
Survey Experiments ◽  
High Level

Abstract. Factorial survey experiments are increasingly used in the social sciences to investigate behavioral intentions. The measurement of self-reported behavioral intentions with factorial survey experiments frequently assumes that the determinants of intended behavior affect actual behavior in a similar way. We critically investigate this fundamental assumption using the misdirected email technique. Student participants of a survey were randomly assigned to a field experiment or a survey experiment. The email informs the recipient about the reception of a scholarship with varying stakes (full-time vs. book) and recipient’s names (German vs. Arabic). In the survey experiment, respondents saw an image of the same email. This validation design ensured a high level of correspondence between units, settings, and treatments across both studies. Results reveal that while the frequencies of self-reported intentions and actual behavior deviate, treatments show similar relative effects. Hence, although further research on this topic is needed, this study suggests that determinants of behavior might be inferred from behavioral intentions measured with survey experiments.

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