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Cohen, S.; Halpern, M.; Stonbraker, S. – Health Education Research, 2023
Waiting rooms provide an ideal location to disseminate health information. In this mixed-methods study, we evaluated waiting room-based health education talks at two clinics in the Dominican Republic and explored recommendations for implementing this intervention in similar settings. The talks addressed noncommunicable diseases, sexually…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Education, Clinics, Information Dissemination
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Redding, Colleen A.; Prochaska, James O.; Armstrong, Kay; Rossi, Joseph S.; Hoeppner, Bettina B.; Sun, Xiaowu; Kobayashi, Hisanori; Yin, Hui-Qing; Coviello, Donna; Evers, Kerry; Velicer, Wayne F. – Health Education Research, 2015
Smoking and sexual risk behaviors in urban adolescent females are prevalent and problematic. Family planning clinics reach those who are at most risk. This randomized effectiveness trial evaluated a transtheoretical model (TTM)-tailored intervention to increase condom use and decrease smoking. At baseline, a total of 828 14- to 17-year-old females…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Adolescents, Females, At Risk Persons
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Peyman, N.; Oakley, D. – Health Education Research, 2009
The purpose of this study was to explore factors that influence oral contraceptive (OC) use among women in Iran using the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and concept of self-efficacy (SE). The study sample consisted of 360 married OC users, aged 18-49 years recruited at public health centers of Mashhad, 900 km east of Tehran. SE had the strongest…
Descriptors: Family Planning, Self Efficacy, Public Health, Foreign Countries
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Ha, Bui Thi Thu; Jayasuriya, Rohan; Owen, Neville – Health Education Research, 2005
We tested a social-cognitive intervention to influence contraceptive practices among men living in rural communes in Vietnam. It was predicted that participants who received a stage-targeted program based on the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) would report positive movement in their stage of motivational readiness for their wife to use an…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Quasiexperimental Design, Family Planning, Intervention