Conservation research programs can encourage conservation of biodiversity working landscapes by influencing the behaviors private landowners who participate in program. However, specific behavior outcomes following landowner participation a program, as well drivers that influence their engagement these behaviors, remain unclear. We interviewed had provided property access to Smithsonian program...

OBJECTIVE Previous research has found that conscientiousness has positive associations with preventative health-related behaviors and self-perceived health, but little is known about the links between changes in these variables over time. In the present study, we examined how levels and changes in conscientiousness were linked to levels and changes in both preventative health-related behaviors ...

Introduction: Rapid changes in lifestyle, especially in nutritional aspects of the elderly, have led to many chronic diseases. Therefore, attention to nutritional needs of the elderly is an essential issue. The purpose of this study was to determine the predictors of healthy nutrition behaviors based on health belief model (HBM) in the elderlies of Kalat city, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran.. ...

Increasingly, health communication practitioners are exploring the use of narrative storytelling to convey health information. For this study, a narrative film was produced to provide information about the human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer prevention. The storyline centered on Lupita, a young woman recently diagnosed with HPV who informs her family about HPV and the availability of...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relation between parent expectations for antibiotics, parent communication behaviors, and physicians' perceptions of parent expectations for antibiotics. STUDY DESIGN A nested cross-sectional study with parallel measures of parents presenting children for acute respiratory infections (previsit) and physicians (postvisit) and audiotaping of the encounters. POPULATION...

abstract background: the studies indicate that the majority of healthy and unhealthy behaviors formed during adolescence and t hey are considered educable. therefore, investing in the health and education of young people toward prevention of cardiovascular disease is considered as the underlying action.  this study’s aim was to investigate the effect of educational intervention on knowledge and...