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Seeking Information: Where Do Pregnant Women Go?
(Sage Publications, 1988)
As part of a larger investigation of health behaviors and beliefs during pregnancy, a sample of 529 women were asked to identify their major sources of information about what they should and should not do during their ...
Mechanisms of Psychosocial Effects on Health: The Role of Social Integration, Coping Style and Health Behavior
(Sage Publications, 1988)
To analyze the mechanisms by which psychosocial factors affect health, this re search investigated social integration and indicators of coping style and their relation to health behaviors and health status. The analysis ...
Perceptions Held by Obese Children and their Parents: Implications for Weight Control Intervention
(Sage Publications, 1988)
The study was designed to identify some of the psychosocial barriers to compliance in a hospital-based weight control intervention program for adolescents. Forty obese adolescents, 10 to 16 years of age, and their parents ...
Hazard Communication in a Large U.S. Manufacturing Firm: The Ecology of Health Education in the Workplace
(Sage Publications, 1988)
This article describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a workplace health and safety education program intended to bring a large U.S. manufacturing firm into compliance with a Federal regulation, the Hazard ...
Evaluation of Continuing Education in Health Education: The Society for Public Health Education's 1983, 1984 and 1985 Mid-Year Scientific Symposia
(Sage Publications, 1988)
The Society for Public Health Education's (SOPHE) first three mid-year scientific symposia were evaluated three months after each meeting with questionnaires mailed to all national SOPHE members who attended and a 10% ...
Social Learning Theory and the Health Belief Model
(Sage Publications, 1988)
The Health Belief Model, social learning theory (recently relabelled social cognitive theory), self-efficacy, and locus of control have all been applied with varying success to problems of explaining, predicting, and ...
Intraventricular microdialysis: a new method for determining monoamine metabolite concentrations in the cerebrospinal fluid of freely moving rats
(Elsevier, 1988-06)
A new method is described to estimate the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) concentrations of monoamine metabolites (dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC), homovanillic acid (HVA) and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA)) in the lateral ...
Anticonvulsant drug actions on neurons in cell culture
(Springer-Verlag, 1988-10)
Two actions of clinically used antiepileptic drugs have been studied using mouse neurons in primary dissociated cell culture. The antiepileptic drugs phenytoin, carbamazepine and valproic acid were demonstrated to limit ...
The effect of health beliefs and feelings of self efficacy on self management behavior of children with a chronic disease
(Elsevier, 1988-04)
This study is among the first to examine the value of chronically ill children's health beliefs, self-efficacy beliefs, experiences of hospitalization, and participation in a health education program in predicting ...