Promoting action control and coping planning to improve hand hygiene
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Promoting action control and coping planning to improve hand hygiene
BACKGROUND We examined a brief educational intervention addressing hand hygiene self-regulatory mechanisms, and evaluated which psychological mechanisms may lead to hand hygiene behaviours. METHODS Two hundred forty two students (mean age = 21 years, SD = 3.9) received either an experimental (n = 149) or a control condition on action control and planning (n = 93). Hand hygiene, coping plannin...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Public Health
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-2295-z