Background: Recently, the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 is a new emerging universal challenge in the infectious epidemic diseases management. Even today with the vaccine accessibility, the most efficient intervention is behaviour-based intervention and with the emergence of new diverse, it remains significant. The goal of present study was to promote preventive behaviours during the coro...

The aim of this study is to evaluate the relation between a sense of coherence and intensity of health-related behaviour among 521 Polish university students. The study was conducted using validated instruments with two questionnaires: Antonovsky's SOC-29 and the Inventory of Health-Related Behaviour. The mean value of SOC amounted to 125.2. More than half of the studied group were characterize...

(DFID) supports policies, programmes and projects to promote international development. DFID provides funds for this study as part of that objective but the views and options expressed are those of the author(s) alone. Summary This review of health seeking behaviour outlines the main approaches within the field, and summarises some of the key findings from recent work around the probes. However...

Introduction. The aim of this study is to gather knowledge about how different groups of Icelanders take advantage of information about health and lifestyle in their everyday life. Method. A random sample of 1,000 people was used in the study and data was gathered as a postal survey. Response rate was 50.8%. Analysis. K-means cluster analysis was used to draw four clusters based on the particip...

PURPOSE A sense of self-efficacy has become such an important construct in recent years that it has been included in most behaviour theories. Self-efficacy turned out to be very strong conditioning for health in a lot of research. The general influence of self-efficacy on health behaviour exceeds the influence of any other single variable. The feeling of self-efficacy allows to predict the inte...