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Social robots as health promoting agents: An application of the health action p...
Lopes, Sara L.; Ferreira, Aristides I.; Prada, Rui; Schwarzer, RalfABSTRACT: Technological innovations may have the potential to improve health behavior interventions at the workplace. Using a robot as a health communicator who interacts with target individuals may be sometimes superior to human change agents. Embedded in a health behavior theory that accounts for motivational and volitional processes, an innovative study has been designed to explore operating principles and i...
Handwashing adherence during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal study based ...
Szczuka, Zofia; Siwa, Maria; Abraham, Charles; Baban, Adriana; Brooks, Sydney; Cipolletta, Sabrina; Danso, Ebrima; Dombrowski, Stephan U.; Gan, YiqunRationale: The associations between the number of COVID-19 cases/deaths and subsequent uptake of protective behaviors may reflect cognitive and behavioral responses to threat-relevant information. Objective: Applying protection motivation theory (PMT), this study explored whether the number of total COVID-19 cases/deaths and general anxiety were associated with cross-situational handwashing adherence and whethe...
FOODLIT-tool: Development and validation of the adaptable food literacy tool to...
Rosas, Raquel; Pimenta, Filipa; Leal, I.; Schwarzer, RalfFacing multiple anthropogenic challenges and considering the current global pandemic, food sustainability is stated as threatened by major intergovernmental agencies. Given the heterogeneity of food systems, the need to enhance food-related behaviours by promoting the acquisition of knowledge and competencies, and the demand to involve stakeholder's diversity, this study aims to develop and validate an instrume...
FOODLIT-trial: protocol of a randomised controlled digital intervention to prom...
Rosas, Raquel; Pimenta, Filipa; Leal, Isabel Maria Pereira; Schwarzer, RalfDietary quality and sustainability are central matters to the international community, emphasised by the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic. To promote healthier and more sustainable food-related practices, the protocol of a web-based intervention to enhance adults’ food literacy is presented. The FOODLIT-Trial is a two-arm, parallel, experimental, and single-blinded randomised controlled trial delivered over 11 w...
FOODLIT-Trial: Protocol of a Randomised Controlled Digital Intervention to Prom...
Rosas, Raquel; Pimenta, Filipa; Leal, Isabel; Schwarzer, RalfDietary quality and sustainability are central matters to the international community, em phasised by the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic. To promote healthier and more sustainable food-related practices, the protocol of a web-based intervention to enhance adults’ food literacy is presented. The FOODLIT-Trial is a two-arm, parallel, experimental, and single-blinded randomised controlled trial delivered over 11 ...
The interplay between strictness of policies and individuals’ self-regulatory e...
Luszczynska, Aleksandra; Szczuka, Zofia; Abraham, Charles; Baban, Adriana; Brooks, Sydney; Cipolletta, Sabrina; Danso, Ebrima; Dombrowski, Stephan U.Background: Patterns of protective health behaviors, such as handwashing and sanitizing during the COVID-19 pandemic, may be predicted by macro-level variables, such as regulations specified by public health policies. Health behavior patterns may also be predicted by micro-level variables, such as self-regulatory cognitions specified by health behavior models, including the Health Action Process Approach (HAPA)...
FOODLIT-tool: Development and validation of the adaptable food literacy tool to...
Rosas, Raquel; Pimenta, Filipa; Leal, Isabel; Schwarzer, RalfFacing multiple anthropogenic challenges and considering the current global pandemic, food sustainability is stated as threatened by major intergovernmental agencies. Given the heterogeneity of food systems, the need to enhance food-related behaviours by promoting the acquisition of knowledge and competencies, and the demand to involve stakeholder's diversity, this study aims to develop and validate an instrume...
The trajectory of COVID-19 pandemic and handwashing adherence: findings from 14...
Szczuka, Zofia; Abraham, Charles; Baban, Adriana; Brooks, Sydney; Cipolletta, Sabrina; Danso, Ebrima; Dombrowski, Stephan U.; Gan, Yiqun; Gaspar, TaniaBackground: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected people's engagement in health behaviors, especially those that protect individuals from SARS-CoV-2 transmission, such as handwashing/sanitizing. This study investigated whether adherence to the World Health Organization's (WHO) handwashing guidelines (the outcome variable) was associated with the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic, as measured by the following 6 i...
FOODLIT-PRO: conceptual and empirical development of the food literacy wheel
Rosas, Raquel Alexandra Ferreira; Pimenta, Filipa; Leal, Isabel Pereira; Schwarzer, RalfPursuing food systems' sustainability is crucial. Given the risk constituted by unhealthy diets, scarce research on food-related adjacent fields, and inconsistency across food literacy conceptualizations, this study aims to explore the constructs' definition and develop a conceptual and empirical framework of food literacy. A quantitative approach was taken on previously obtained qualitative outcomes from 30 in...
Stage-Based Computer-Delivered Interventions to Increase Condom Use in Young Men
Carvalho, Telma; Alvarez, Maria-João; Pereira, Cicero Roberto; Schwarzer, RalfObjectives: The aim is to examine whether adopting or increasing condom use can be influenced by psychological treatment targeting both motivational and volitional aspects, when these components are matched to the characteristics of the recipients. Method: In a randomized controlled trial, 159 heterosexual young men (intervention groups, n D 113; control condition, n D 46) were exposed to 2 computer-delivered i...