Abstract The main objective of this study was to examine the use protection motivation theory (PMT) in explaining smokers’ quitting intentions among Chinese adults with goal providing valuable evidence promote theory-guided and culturally appropriate cessation interventions. This cross-sectional included 613 participants randomly selected from 26 provinces Mainland China. Cronbach’s alpha inter...

conclusions motivational interviewing resulted in decreased daily energy intake, anthropometric characteristics as well as augmented scores of coping and threat appraisal. results the mean age of females was 38.45 ± 9.49 years, most of them had academic degree 46.7% (n = 70), 78.7% (n = 118) were married and 60.7% (n = 91) were housewives. anova repeated measure test showed that daily energy in...

Before consequences of climate change continue to intensify and increasingly affect the entire planet, immediate action must be taken. For instance, adopt pro-environmental behaviors such as purchase organic food minimize harmful human-caused impacts environment. This paper aims determine factors that influence intention in Malaysia by applying theory planned behavior protection motivation theo...