Social cognition models and health behaviour: A structured review

Armitage, Christopher J.; Conner, Mark

doi:10.1080/08870440008400299

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“…Theory can be used to understand motivation, volition and barriers around health promoting behaviours (Armitage & Conner, 2000) and the interaction between the environment and individuals in a number of contexts, and can enhance replicability of research in multiple settings and ensure any resulting interventions or recommendations for practice have robust evidence base (Craig et al, 2008). For example, theories such as the theory of planned behaviour (Ajzen, 1991) and trans theoretical model (Prochaska & DiClemente, 2005) help to understand why parents who report being motivated around providing healthy diets for their children may not carry out specific behaviours that result in implementation of these intentions.…”

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Providing healthy diets for young children: the experience of parents in a UK inner city

Goldthorpe

Ali

Calam

2018

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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Objectives: There is a consistent body of evidence to demonstrate that obesity in very early childhood tends to continue into adolescence and through to adulthood. Parental practices in relation to food can have an effect on this trajectory, however existing studies reporting on interventions for treating obesity suggest there is a need to involve populations from demographically diverse backgrounds childhood obesity research. Design/Methods: A qualitative study was carried out using semi-structured interviews with parents in a deprived inner city area. Results: Although parents had good intentions towards providing a health diet for their chidren, a number of barriers emerged. Findings were reported in relation to the following themes: information and education; barriers (having a child with special needs, children’s food preferences and using food to promote desirable behaviour) and techniques (household rules & routines, setting limits and parameters, modelling and food preparation). Conclusion: Parents and carers would benefit from targeted interventions based on improving techniques around food parenting practices, with a focus on equipping parents with the skills to overcome barriers encountered not only in early childhood, but as children progress to school age and through to adolescence.

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Providing healthy diets for young children: the experience of parents in a UK inner city

Goldthorpe

Ali

Calam

2018

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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“…Factors such as taste preferences, knowledge, intentions, attitudes, self-efficacy, and a number of other individual factors were considered primarily to drive what and how people eat or the amount of physical activity they undertake. 5 Research to date suggests that individually focused interventions attempting to prevent or reduce adult obesity have had mixed or limited results. 6,7 Although some educational, psychological, behavioral, and pharmacological approaches to treat obesity appear to be potentially effective, they will not be sufficient to reduce rising obesity prevalence because people are constrained in their ability to adopt healthy behaviors by urban environments, which increasingly promote poor diet and sedentary behaviors.…”

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Investigating Environmental Determinants of Diet, Physical Activity, and Overweight among Adults in Sao Paulo, Brazil

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There is worldwide recognition that the burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and obesity-related health problems is rapidly increasing in low-and middle-income countries. Environmental determinants of obesity are likely to differ between countries, particularly in those undergoing rapid socioeconomic and nutrition transitions such as Brazil. This study aims to describe some built environment and local food environment variables and to explore their association with the overweight rate and diet and physical activity area-level aggregated indicators of adults living in the city of Sao Paulo, the largest city in Brazil. This formative study includes an ecological analysis of environmental factors associated with overweight across 31 submunicipalities of the city of Sao Paulo using statistical and spatial analyses. Average prevalence of overweight was 41.69% (95% confidence interval 38.74, 44.64), ranging from 27.14% to 60.75% across the submunicipalities. There was a wide geographical variation of both individual diet and physical activity, and indicators of food and built environments, favoring wealthier areas. After controlling for area socioeconomic status, there was a positive correlation between regular fruits and vegetables (FV) intake and density of FV specialized food markets (r=0.497; pG0.001), but no relationship between fastfood restaurant density and overweight prevalence was found. A negative association between overweight prevalence and density of parks and public sport facilities was seen (r=−0.527; pG0.05). Understanding the relationship between local neighborhood environments and increasing rates of poor diet, physical activity, and obesity is essential in countries undergoing rapid economic and urban development, such as Brazil, in order to provide insights for policies to reduce increasing rates of NCDs and food access and health inequalities.

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“…The consumption of fruit and vegetables among schoolchildren is a complex phenomenon in which personal, social and physical environmental factors may have mutual influences. Personal cognitive and affective factors such as proposed in socialcognitive theories (Armitage and Conner, 2000) include such factors as knowledge, attitude, liking, self-efficacy, preference and perceived barriers. Social and physical environmental factors are highlighted in so-called social-ecology models (Swinburn et al, 1999).…”

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Personal, social and environmental predictors of daily fruit and vegetable intake in 11-year-old children in nine European countries

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Objective: To investigate potential personal, social and physical environmental predictors of daily fruit intake and daily vegetable intake in 11-year-old boys and girls in nine European countries. Subjects: The total sample size was 13 305 (90.4% participation rate). Results: Overall, 43.2% of the children reported to eat fruit every day, 46.1% reported to eat vegetables every day. Daily fruit intake and daily vegetable intake was mainly associated with knowledge of the national recommendations, positive self-efficacy, positive liking and preference, parental modeling and demand and bringing fruit to school (odds ratio between 1.40 and 2.42, Po0.02). These factors were associated fairly consistently with daily fruit intake across all nine European countries, implying that a rather uniform intervention strategy to promote fruit can be used across Europe. For vegetables, the pattern was, however, less consistent. Differences between countries in cooking and preparing vegetables might be responsible for this larger diversity. Conclusions: This study showed that especially a combination of personal and social factors is related to daily fruit and vegetable intake in schoolchildren. This shows that a comprehensive multilevel intervention strategy based upon a series of individual and social correlates will be most promising in the promotion of daily fruit and vegetable intake in children.

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Social cognition models and health behaviour: A structured review

Cited by 634 publications

References 65 publications

Providing healthy diets for young children: the experience of parents in a UK inner city

Providing healthy diets for young children: the experience of parents in a UK inner city

Investigating Environmental Determinants of Diet, Physical Activity, and Overweight among Adults in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Personal, social and environmental predictors of daily fruit and vegetable intake in 11-year-old children in nine European countries

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