OBJECTIVE Health behaviors (HBs) are major determinants of health, illness, and mortality. Theoretical efforts aimed at understanding their nature and the processes involved in their initiation and maintenance have largely ignored differences among them. Therefore, the objective of this research was to establish a reliable and valid common-sense taxonomy of HBs. METHODS The first study create...

the evaluation of plaque and tooth decay represents the oral health status of society. lack of oral hygiene, can adversely affect the health of students. this study was designed with the aim to determine the oral- dental health status of the first grade guidance students in hamadan: using health belief model (hbm). this was a descriptive- analytical study which was conducted on 268 students of ...

Recent developments in stress theory have emphasized the significance of perseverative cognition (worry and rumination) in furthering our understanding of stress-disease relationships. Substantial evidence has shown that perseverative cognition (PC) is associated with somatic outcomes and numerous physiological concomitants have been identified (i.e., cardiovascular, autonomic, and endocrine ne...

BACKGROUND Persons with a college degree are more likely to engage in eHealth behaviors than persons without a college degree, compounding the health disadvantages of undereducated groups in the United States. However, the extent to which quality of recent eHealth experience reduces the education-based eHealth gap is unexplored. OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to examine how eHealth info...

COVID-19 pandemic has placed a heavy burden on healthcare systems and governments. Health literacy health behaviors are recognized as strategic public elements, but they have not received due attention during the pandemic. vital in slowing controlling outbreak. The purpose of this research is to examine level individuals COVID 19 epidemic. sample study consists between ages 18-65 living Ankara....

This paper investigates the role of biased health perceptions as a potential driving force risky behaviors. We define absolute and relative perception biases, illustrate their measurement in surveys provide evidence on relevance. Next, we decompose theoretical effect into its extensive intensive margin: When margin dominates, people (wrongly) believe they are healthy enough to “afford” unhealth...

OBJECTIVE To date, most investigations of mental health in pregnant women have focused on depression or substance use. This study aimed to (a) delineate the relationships between symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and prenatal health behaviors and (b) explore whether the symptom clusters of ADHD differentially predict prenatal health behaviors (e.g., physical strain, he...