Bicycling campaigns promoting health versus campaigns promoting safety: A randomized controlled online study of ‘dangerization’

Promoting Violence: Terror Management Theory and Campus Safety Campaigns

A new wave of campus safety campaigns have been implemented on high school and college campuses across the nation since the Virginia Tech shootings. Some of these campaigns are trying to increase awareness that violence can happen anywhere by reducing optimistic bias in students and faculty. This study poses that these campaigns have the potential to increase mortality salience and anxiety in i...

Effect of health promoting lifestyle education on health promoting behaviors of postmenopausal women: A clinical trial study

Introduction: Physiological changes in menopause can affect womenchr('39')s health. Womenchr('39')s lifestyle is one of the most important factors affecting their health at this time. However, women do not have sufficient knowledge of health-promoting behaviors and do not receive the necessary training in this area. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of health promoting lif...

#SupportTheCause: Identifying Motivations to Participate in Online Health Campaigns

We consider the task of automatically identifying participants’ motivations in the public health campaign Movember and investigate the impact of the different motivations on the amount of campaign donations raised. Our classification scheme is based on the Social Identity Model of Collective Action (van Zomeren et al., 2008). We find that automatic classification based on Movember profiles is f...

Do Campaigns Really Change Behavior? New Understanding of the Behavioral Effects of Advertising, Political Campaigns and Health Communication Campaigns

Health promoting hospitals: A case study in Iran

Introduction: Hospitals are the best ground for providing health promotion and prevention services besides health care services. This study aimed to determine the impact of establishing standards of health promoting hospitals on hospitals' indicators in one of the public hospitals of Iran. Materials and methods: This research was a case-control study that included Fatemieh (case group) and...