Effects of tailored, personalized and general health messages on physical activity

Bull, Fiona; Kreuter, Matthew W.; Scharff, Darcell P.

doi:10.1016/s0738-3991(98)00134-7

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“…Computer-tailored intervention studies have been reported with high-school students and adults for dietary fat and physical activity (Bull et al, 1999 andStrecher, 1996), but only our prior four-session trial (Frenn, Malin, Bansal, Delgado, et al, 2003) has been reported for both behaviors with middle-school students. Brug et al (2003) called for studies examining tailored interventions for more than one behavior.…”

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confidence: 97%

Changing the tide: an Internet/video exercise and low-fat diet intervention with middle-school students

Frenn

Malin

Brown

et al. 2005

Applied Nursing Research

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Abstract:The rising tide of obesity erodes the health of youths and many times results in adult obesity. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effectiveness of an eight-session health promotion/transtheoretical model Internet/video-delivered intervention to increase physical activity and reduce dietary fat among low-income, culturally diverse, seventh-grade students. Those who completed more than half the sessions increased exercise, t(103) = −1.99, p = .05, and decreased the percentage of dietary fat, t(87) = 2.73, p = .008. Responses to the intervention by stage of change, race, and income are examined.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Changing the tide: an Internet/video exercise and low-fat diet intervention with middle-school students

Frenn

Malin

Brown

et al. 2005

Applied Nursing Research

116

201

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“…As such, they may form useful bases for segmenting audiences for communication purposes. Indeed, matching or tailoring health communication to different aspects of an individual"s personal characteristics can enhance motivation to process health information (Rimer & Kreuter, 2006) and increase its persuasive effect for a diverse range of health behaviours (Block & Keller, 1997), including decreasing physical inactivity (Bull, Kreuter, & Darcell, 1999) alcohol consumption (Agostinelli & Grube, 2002) and increasing fruit and vegetable consumption (Brinol & Petty, 2006).…”

Section: Bringing About Health-related Behaviour Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Persuading young consumers to make healthy nutritional decisions

Brennan¹,

Dahl²,

Eagle³

2010

Journal of Marketing Management

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There is widespread concern that consumers are making inappropriate decisions about what they eat, leading to a growing incidence of obesity and chronic illness which will strain public health budgets and damage economic competitiveness. Inappropriate nutritional decisions and obesity are of particular public policy importance where young consumers are concerned. The paper investigates how consumers, particularly young consumers, can be persuaded to make better nutritional decisions voluntarily, and how government and commercial persuasive communications can be deployed to facilitate such decisions. The key conclusions are that the mass media are not a reliable vehicle for bringing about the desired behavioural changes, but that new media, such as the Internet and "text messaging" should be used to deliver tailored messages to individuals, particularly younger consumers.

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“…Research has shown that tailoring information to an individuals' situation is more effective in influencing health behaviour than general information [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. For instance, advice on the risks of unhealthy eating adapted to an individuals' lifestyle (e.g.…”

Section: Individual Behaviour Changementioning

confidence: 99%