The Healthy Lifestyle and Personal Control Questionnaire (HLPCQ): A novel tool for assessing self-empowerment through a constellation of daily activities

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Darviri, Christina ^a   Alexopoulos, Evangelos C ^a   Artemiadis, Artemios K ^a   Tigani, Xanthi ^a,b   Kraniotou, Christina ^a   Darvyri, Panagiota ^a   Chrousos, George P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Daily routine; Empowerment; Health; Lifestyle; Wellbeing

Indexed keywords

AGED; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DIET; EXERCISE; HARM REDUCTION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIFESTYLE; MENTAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION; SLEEP; STANDARDS;

AGED; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DIET; EXERCISE; HARM REDUCTION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIFE STYLE; MENTAL HEALTH; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF EFFICACY; SELF-ASSESSMENT; SLEEP;

EID: 84908008198     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-995     Document Type: Article

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