Test of the Health Promotion Model as a Causal Model of Construction Workers' Use of Hearing Protection

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 183-194

  Lusk, Sally L ^a,c   Ronis, David L ^a,b   Hogan, Mary M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction workers; Health promotion model; Hearing protection; Model testing; Preventing hearing loss

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; MODEL; NOISE INJURY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EAR PROTECTIVE DEVICES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NURSING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0031154187     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-240X(199706)20:3<183::AID-NUR2>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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