Determinants of customers' intention to participate in a Korean restaurant health promotion program: an application of the theory of planned behavior

In 2015, the researcher created "Health on a Budget," a five-session health promotion class to empower homeless women to live heathier lives on a budget. After enhancing the curriculum using the theory of planned behavior (Ajzen, 1991), the researcher reintroduced the program in 2016 and evaluated its effectiveness. The researcher worked with stakeholders to identify key topics: health literacy in nutrition, portion control, cooking, exercise, and oral and foot hygiene. The researcher created objectives, lesson plans, and evaluation surveys that aligned with the theory of planned behavior. At the conclusion of each session, participants completed a survey that determined the completion of the objectives. Ten women residing at the Center for Transforming Lives shelter in Fort Worth participated in "Health on a Budget" in 2016. As a whole, the participants met all of the knowledge objectives, 80% of the attitude objectives, 80% of the behavioral intention objectives, 40% of perceived behavioral control objectives, and 20% of subjective norm objectives. Overall, the program had the greatest effect on the participants’ knowledge, attitudes, and intentions to perform healthy behaviors. The program was well-received by the participants, and the shelter stakeholders were very pleased with the program development and outcomes. Although the participants met most of the objectives, it is unclear if the women will take the knowledge they have and use it to change their day-to-day behaviors because of the complexity of their environment and circumstances. Changing shelter policies to improve the food environment and the nutritional content of the food would be more effective in promoting the health behaviors of residents in the short term. In the long term, the provision of stable housing would allow women to begin improving their physical, mental, and emotional health through programs like "Health on a Budget."

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Prediction of Preventive Behaviors of Hepatitis B among Nurses; Insights from the Theory of Planned Behavior

10.21203/rs.2.12212/v1 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Mehdi Mirzaei-Alavijeh ◽

Fatemeh Jalilian ◽

Farzad Jalilian

Keyword(s):

Health Promotion ◽

Hepatitis B ◽

Theory Of Planned Behavior ◽

Planned Behavior ◽

Health Promotion Program ◽

Behavior Control ◽

Preventive Behaviors ◽

Bivariate Correlation ◽

Perceived Behavior Control ◽

Perceived Behavior

Abstract Background Hepatitis B is the cause of the majority of acute and chronic infections, liver cirrhosis and liver cancer in the world. The purpose of current research was to investigation the hepatitis B (HB) preventive behaviors in nurses in west of Iran by using the theory of planned behavior (TPB). Methods This cross-sectional research was conducted on 330 nurses from five teaching and treatment hospitals in Kermanshah who were randomly selected. Data were collected by self-report questionnaire. Data were analyzed in the SPSS-16 software by using bivariate correlation, t-test, ANOVA, and linear regression statistical tests. Results The mean score for the prevention behaviors of HB was 3.14± 1.45, and the participants achieved 62.8% of the maximum obtainable score for the prevention behaviors of HB. TPB constructs were accounted for 22% of the variation in prevention behaviors of HB, F= 42.351, P< 0.001 and among the TPB constructs, attitude and perceived behavior control were the most influential predictors of doing prevention behaviors of HB. Conclusions This research provides a foundation for planning health promotion program to increase the prevention behaviors of HB. It seems our findings are useful in planning health promotion programs aimed at increasing attitude and perceived behavior control to increase the prevention behaviors of HB.

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