Patterns and correlates of multiple risk behaviors in overweight women

Abstract

Background-Knowledge about the prevalence, co-occurrence, and correlates of lifestyle related behaviors of overweight women is needed to inform the design of health promotion interventions for weight loss.

Health Behaviours as Mediating Pathways between Socioeconomic Position and Body Mass Index

“…Since healthy lifestyle is more common in those with a higher socioeconomic position [5,15,16,22,[25][26][27] and at the same time health behaviours cluster with each others [15,16,18,20], it would be important to know if the socioeconomic variation in BMI could be explained through health behaviours. Yet there is limited number of studies focusing on this topic [2,28].…”

Adherence to Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines for U.S. Women Aged 25–64: Data from the 2005 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS)

“…Based on the observation that unhealthy lifestyle behaviors often cluster together, [21][22][23][24][25] we hypothesized that women engaged in unhealthy lifestyle behaviors (specifically, smoking and obesity) would be less likely to maintain regular Pap smear screening than women who did not endorse such behaviors. Further, we hypothesized that women who were knowledgeable about HPV infection and current screening recommendations would be more likely to adhere to regular screenings than women who were not so well informed.…”

Averting Uncertainty: A Practical Guide to Physical Activity Research in Australian Schools

“…However, schools provide a structured environment with fixed routine interaction points that can be utilised to facilitate the distribution and collection of instruments. This may alleviate the need to expend resources mailing and collecting instruments for physical activity measurement (Keyserling et al, 2008;Price, Tucker, Griffin, & Holman, 2008;Robinson et al, 2008;Sanchez et al, 2008;Sloane, Demark-Wahnefried, Snyder, Kraus, & Lobach, 2009). One potential drawback from physical activity measurement instruments is that they may introduce a strong focus on the desired outcome, at the expense of less focus being attributed to the underlying behaviour that is being promoted (physical activity) (Welk, 2008).…”