Nutrition-Related Cancer Prevention Cognitions and Behavioral Intentions: Testing the Risk Perception Attitude Framework

Autor/inn/en	Sullivan, Helen W.; Beckjord, Ellen Burke; Finney Rutten, Lila J.; Hesse, Bradford W.
Titel	Nutrition-Related Cancer Prevention Cognitions and Behavioral Intentions: Testing the Risk Perception Attitude Framework
Quelle	In: Health Education & Behavior, 35 (2008) 6, S.866-879 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1090-1981
DOI	10.1177/1090198108326164
Schlagwörter	Prevention; Nutrition; Cancer; Health Education; Risk; Schemata (Cognition); Surveys; Trend Analysis; Eating Habits; Intention; Role; Intervention; Health Behavior; Participant Characteristics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Prävention; Vorbeugung; Ernährung; Carcinoma; Karzinom; Krebs (med); Krebserkrankung; Gesundheitsaufklärung; Gesundheitsbildung; Gesundheitserziehung; Risiko; Cognition; Schema; Kognition; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Trendanalyse; Ernährungsgewohnheit; Essgewohnheit; Rollen; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten
Abstract	This study tested whether the risk perception attitude framework predicted nutrition-related cancer prevention cognitions and behavioral intentions. Data from the 2003 Health Information National Trends Survey were analyzed to assess respondents' reported likelihood of developing cancer (risk) and perceptions of whether they could lower their chances of getting cancer (efficacy). Respondents with higher efficacy were more likely to report that good nutrition can prevent cancer, and they reported more preventive dietary changes, as compared to respondents with lower efficacy. Respondents with higher efficacy were more likely to report intentions to change their diets to prevent cancer, and they reported more preventive dietary changes to their own diets but only at higher levels of risk. Results suggest that to improve cognitions about the role of nutrition in cancer prevention, interventions should target cancer prevention efficacy; however, to increase intentions to change nutrition behaviors, interventions should target efficacy and risk perceptions. (Contains 1 figure and 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10