The Adolescent Perception of Invincibility and Its Influence on Teen Acceptance of Health Promotion Strategies

Wickman, Marie; Anderson, Nancy; Greenberg, Cindy Smith

doi:10.1016/j.pedn.2008.02.003

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“…Adolescent health behaviors are among the factors that determine health status in adult life, so proper health behaviors should be established during this period of life (Wichman et al, 2008 The aim of the present study was to describe the health protecting and health promoting behaviors among preparatory school students in Zagazig city. The study included 150 preparatory school students where the age ranges between 12 and 15 years, with slightly higher percentage of females which could be attributed to their more compliance to school attendance compared with males who may skip school for work.…”

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Health Protecting and Health Promoting Behaviors Among Preparatory School Students in Zagazig City

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2015

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Abstract:Background. Adolescents' lifestyle change can be facilitated through a combination of learning experiences that enhance awareness, increase motivation, and build skills. The aim of this study was to describe the health protecting and health promoting behaviors among preparatory school students in Zagazig city. This study was aimed to identify the most common health-related modified and non-modified behaviors and how they effect on wellness of the preparatory school students. Research design: A descriptive cross-sectional design was used to carry out the study. Setting: in a preparatory school in Kafr Mohamed Gawish at Zagazig city on 150 male and female students aged 12 to 15 recruited through stratified cluster random sampling. Tools: The data were collected using an interview questionnaire. →(Please, give some info regarding questionnaire; it is self-structured? Validated? Self-administrative? How is it scoring? Additionally, how the behavior was assessed? (Cut-off 60%). Tools: Two tools, the first tool (the data collection tool consisted of an interview questionnaire consisted two parts, socio-demographic characteristics, and medical history) and the second tool (a health promoting lifestyle questionnaire, in addition to a section asking students about the topics they suggest for personal growth. Results: The study results showed that approximately two thirds of adolescent preparatory school students from middle class families in rural areas had adequate total wellness behavior. The wellness behaviors' areas of most deficiency were those of exercise and mental activity, whereas the best areas were those of medication use, environmental, social, and spiritual aspects. Students' total wellness was significantly influenced by higher mother education, and lower crowding index, as well as the history of chronic diseases and previous surgery. Some of the wellness behavior aspects were also affected by students' age, gender, and father education. Conclusion and summary: Multivariate analysis identified → (Not in conclusion section) mother education as the only significant independent factor positively influencing adolescent's total wellness score. Students need to know more about topics related to nutrition, exercise, and anxiety. The wellness behaviors' areas of most deficiency are those of exercise and mental activity, whereas the best areas were those of medication use, environmental, social, and spiritual aspects. Recommendations: School health team should construct and implement special nutritional education intervention programs, promote physical exercise, and develop a hotline service for adolescents' health.

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Health Protecting and Health Promoting Behaviors Among Preparatory School Students in Zagazig City

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2015

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“…For example, if teens do not know how to effectively avoid or resist the temptation to smoke, they may choose "not to think about it" as a defensively avoidant response to the real dangers of smoking. Another Downloaded by [McMaster University] at 07:51 19 November 2014 outcome, denial, may also be problematic, especially among teens, who, by and large, tend to hold beliefs of invincibility (see Wickman, Anderson, & Smith-Greenberg, 2008). In sum, although the truth ® campaign has had some success with smoking prevention among teenagers, the overrepresentation of severity and susceptibility messages coupled with the nonexistence of corresponding efficacy messages points to potentially problematic outcomes, according to the EPPM.…”

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What Is the Truth? An Application of the Extended Parallel Process Model to Televised Truth® Ads

LaVoie

Quick

2013

Health Communication

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The purpose of this study was to analyze television ads in the truth® campaign using the Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM) as a framework. Among the ads (n = 86) analyzed, results revealed a heavy reliance on severity messages, modest attention to susceptibility messages, and no inclusion of recommended response messages in the form of self-efficacy and response efficacy. The reliance on emphasizing the health threat, without incorporating recommended response messages, is discussed with respect to the likelihood of galvanizing maladaptive responses such as psychological reactance, denial, and defensive avoidance resulting from exposure to these ads. Additionally, the unintended outcomes for secondary audiences including but not limited to stigma are considered. Implications and suggestions for practitioners and theorists are explored.

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“…Another group includes men 21 and younger, who may exhibit higher risk behaviors than older men [25]. Each age group has a similar sample size, with the exception of the youngest age group, which includes substantially fewer people, but is still important to keep separate due to the potential differences in risk preference between this group and the others [36]. Age groups were used as dummy variables, with the oldest age group as reference value.…”

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Brubaker

Hayes

2014

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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The HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s fundamentally changed sexual practices of men who have sex with men (MSM) in the U.S., including increased usage of sexual health-related (SHR) language in personal advertisements. Analyzing online personal ads from Craigslist, we found a substantial increase in SHR language, from ~23% in 1988 to over 53% today, echoing continuing concern about rising HIV rates. We argue that SHR language in Craigslist ads can be used as a sensor to provide insight into HIV epidemiology as well as discourse among particular communities. We show a positive significant relationship between prevalence rate of HIV in an ad's location and use of SHR language in that location. Analysis highlights the opportunity for SHR information found in Craigslist personal ads to serve as a data source for HIV prevention research. More broadly, we argue for mining large-scale user-generated content to inform HCI design of health and other systems, and explore use of such data to examine temporal changes in language to facilitate improved user-interface design.

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The Adolescent Perception of Invincibility and Its Influence on Teen Acceptance of Health Promotion Strategies

Cited by 90 publications

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Health Protecting and Health Promoting Behaviors Among Preparatory School Students in Zagazig City

Health Protecting and Health Promoting Behaviors Among Preparatory School Students in Zagazig City

What Is the Truth? An Application of the Extended Parallel Process Model to Televised Truth® Ads

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