Mental Health Correlates of Healthy Lifestyle Attitudes, Beliefs, Choices, and Behaviors in Overweight Adolescents

Empower U: Effectiveness of an Adolescent Outreach and Prevention Program With Sixth-Grade Boys and Girls: A Pilot Study

“…Possible scores range from 0 to 30 for the summed items. Validity and reliability have been previously established (Melnyk et al, 2006;Melnyk et al, 2009). The Cronbach's alpha in this study was .85.…”

“…The Healthy Living Beliefs Scale is a 15-item instrument adapted from other belief scales used by Melnyk et al (2006) in prior studies to assess beliefs about various facets (i.e., nutrition and exercise) of maintaining a healthy lifestyle. A higher score on the scale indicates a stronger belief in maintaining a healthy lifestyle.…”

Self-Efficacy, Physical Activity, and Aerobic Fitness in Middle School Children: Examination of a Pedometer Intervention Program

“…Physical activity in healthy weight and obese school-age youth is associated with lower rates of depression, anxiety, and improved self-concept (Strong et al, 2005). Direct relationships have been established between lower body mass index and higher self-efficacy levels (Melnyk et al, 2006). School based intervention programs have effectively increased student physical activity levels during physical education classes (Luepker et al, 1996;Sallis et al, 2003).…”

“…Furthermore, high levels of physical activity have been associated with increased levels of self-efficacy in children aged 10 to 16 years (Strauss, Rodzilsky, Burack, & Colin, 2001). Conversely, lower levels of self efficacy and confidence have been associated with lower levels of physical activity in overweight adolescents (Melnyk et al, 2006).…”

Money as Health: A Study of Health Status Disparities among African Americans of Flint, Michigan

“…It is particularly deployed in cases involving the clinical care of patients who may have chronic co-morbid conditions [1,2]. Although choice theory explores how the personal choices of patients impact their health outcome, there are certain contexts in which health status cannot be simply attributed to maladaptive behaviors [1].…”