UNLABELLED Abstinence from smoking on the morning of surgery may improve outcomes. This study examined the explicatory power of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to predict smoking behavior on the morning of surgery, testing the hypothesis that the constructs of attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control (PBC) will predict intent to abstain from smoking the morning of surger...

A randomized controlled trial evaluated the effectiveness of a 4-wk extended theory of planned behavior (TPB) intervention to promote regular physical activity and healthy eating among older adults diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular disease (N = 183). Participants completed TPB measures of attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, and intention, as well as planning ...

BACKGROUND Web 2.0 provides a platform or a set of tools such as blogs, wikis, really simple syndication (RSS), podcasts, tags, social bookmarks, and social networking software for knowledge sharing, learning, social interaction, and the production of collective intelligence in a virtual environment. Web 2.0 is also becoming increasingly popular in e-learning and e-social communities. OBJECTI...

Smartwatches collect a broad range of physical activity data during usage. We postulate that Perceived Privacy Risk has a direct negative influence on the Behavioral Intention to Use smartwatches and an indirect negative influence on the Behavioral Intention to Use them through Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Enjoyment. After collecting 229 online questionnaires and applying a SEM approach, ...

BACKGROUND Health literacy is one of the most important priorities for improving health care quality through enhancing patient-provider communication. Implementing health literacy strategies enable nurses to provide information and instructions for patients in a manner that is more commensurate and understandable. The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors affecting nurses' intent...

background and objectives: health human resources is the major asset of the health system. the status of human resources in upstream and regulatory health organizations can exert high impact on the effectiveness of health policies and the performance of health system. this study, hence, was designed to explore the possible area of human resource damage to the employees of the iranian ministry o...

This study will deal with the construct of perceived control in difficult childrearing interactions with parents of ADHD children. It has been hypothesized that a) these parents develop low self-control schemata as result of a transactional history of failure interactions with their children more often than parents of non-problem children, and b) low perceived control beliefs are associated wit...