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The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of an osteoporosis educational intervention on knowledge, health beliefs, and self-efficacy in college-age Puerto Rican women. The Health Belief Model and Purnell Model formed the theoretical framework for the study. Three hypotheses were tested with a convenience, randomized sample of 51 experimental and 54 control subjects, ages 18-25. The findings support the hypotheses that educational intervention improved osteoporosis knowledge, health beliefs, but had no effect on self-efficacy. Results and directions for future research are discussed.
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Educação em Saúde/organização & administração , Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde , Hispânico ou Latino/educação , Osteoporose Pós-Menopausa/prevenção & controle , Autoeficácia , Mulheres/educação , Adolescente , Adulto , Atitude Frente a Saúde/etnologia , Região do Caribe , Feminino , Hispânico ou Latino/etnologia , Humanos , Modelos Psicológicos , Análise Multivariada , Osteoporose Pós-Menopausa/etnologia , Avaliação de Programas e Projetos de Saúde , Porto Rico/etnologia , Estudantes/psicologia , Inquéritos e Questionários , Universidades , Mulheres/psicologia , Adulto JovemRESUMO
This study used propositions from the social learning theory to explore the effects of the combined influences of child maltreatment, childhood witness to parental violence, sibling violence, and gender on dating violence perpetration using a modified version of the Conflict Tactics Scale 2 (CTS2). A weighted scoring method was utilized to determine how severity of violence in the home impacts dating violence perpetration. Bivariate correlations and linear regression models indicate significant associations between child maltreatment, sibling violence perpetration, childhood witness to parental violence, gender, and subsequent dating violence perpetration. Multiple regression analyses indicate that for men, history of severe violence victimization (i.e., child maltreatment and childhood witness to parental violence) and severe perpetration (sibling violence) significantly predict dating violence perpetration.
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Filho de Pais com Deficiência/psicologia , Corte/psicologia , Violência Doméstica/psicologia , Relações Interpessoais , Índice de Gravidade de Doença , Adolescente , Adulto , Ordem de Nascimento , Conflito Psicológico , Estudos Transversais , Violência Doméstica/estatística & dados numéricos , Feminino , Humanos , Modelos Lineares , Masculino , Análise Multivariada , Teoria Psicológica , Fatores de Risco , Fatores Sexuais , Relações entre Irmãos , Estudantes/psicologia , Inquéritos e Questionários , Universidades , Adulto JovemRESUMO
This study provided an experimental test of a drug abuse treatment enrollment and retention intervention in a sample of 103 Black mothers of substance-exposed infants. Significantly more women assigned to the Engaging Moms Program enrolled into drug abuse treatment than did women assigned to the control condition (88% vs. 46%). Sixty-seven percent of participants in the Engaging Moms Program received at least 4 weeks of drug abuse treatment compared with 38% of the control women. However, there were no differences between the groups 90 days following treatment entry. Logistic regressions revealed that readiness for treatment predicted both short-term and long-term treatment retention. The Engaging Moms Program has considerable promise in facilitating treatment entry and short-term retention, but it did not influence long-term retention.
