Meta-analytic examination of the strong and weak principles across 48 health behaviors

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 266-274

  Hall, Kara L ^a   Rossi, Joseph S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior change; Decisional balance; Pros and cons; Stages of change; Transtheoretical Model

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; DATA EXTRACTION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR;

EID: 39749096559     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2007.11.006     Document Type: Review

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