Background There are high expectations regarding the potential for the communication of
DNA‐based disease risk estimates to motivate behaviour change. Objectives To assess the …

This review of the current status of theoretically based behavioral research for chronic illness
management makes the following points:(a) Behavioral interventions have demonstrated …

This article examines constructs, propositions, and assumptions of the extended parallel
process model (EPPM). Review of the EPPM literature reveals that its theoretical concepts …

Objectives. Behavioural responses to influenza pandemics can significantly influence the
impact on public health. Protection motivation theory (PMT) provides a framework for …

Objective Although many smoking cessation strategies have been implemented, only a few
strategies at the population level are grounded in theory. Even in those interventions based …

OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this work was to report the intervention effects of Focus on
Youth in the Caribbean (youth HIV intervention), an HIV prevention intervention based on …

Message framing is important in health communication research to encourage behaviour
change. Psoriasis, a long-term inflammatory skin condition, has additional comorbidities …

In this study, we combined approaches from media psychology and neuroscience to ask
whether brain activity in response to online antismoking messages can predict smoking …

Receipt of an abnormal screening test result is likely to activate an illness representation that
guides emotional, cognitive and behavioural responses. The study investigates …

This becomes particularly likely when the effects Zola describes are defi ned as negative
rather than positive. The label “sick,” although free from the opprobrium and implied …