The Health Behaviour Inventory: Initial Development, Factor Structure and Evidence of Reliability

Awabil, Godwin; Anane, Eric

doi:10.2478/jesr-2018-0015

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“…This study modified the Health Behavior Inventory developed by Awabil and Anane, and the Health Protective Behavior Scale developed by Ping et al, both of which are methods of measuring health behaviors [69,70]. The two scales were revised and completed with a total of 36 items in the first draft in order to meet the needs of male and female of older adults in this study; this was named the Health Behavior Inventory (HBI) for older adults.…”

Section: Health Behavior Inventory For the Older Adultsmentioning

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Effects of Exercise Behavior, Social Cohesion, and Social Support on Health Behaviors in Older Adults: Intervention in a Multi-Component Exercise Program

2023

J Community Med Public Health

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Participation in group physical activity by older adults contributes to relationships and health; it is the most effective way to promote physical and mental health. The purpose of this study was to intervene with a multi-component exercise program to understand exercise behavior, social cohesion, and social support with the older adult explanatory power for health behavior. This study recruited 100 healthy people (50 males and 50 females) over 65 years old (average male age: 76.57 ± 1.46 years; average female age: 74.73 ± 1.68 years). Participants implemented an 8-week multi-component exercise program intervention, and before and after the intervention, the Senior Fitness Test for older adults, the Exercise Behavior, Social Cohesion, and Social Support Questionnaire for older adults and Health Behavior Inventory for older adult were implemented. The results of the study showed that the SFT data in male and female older adults could help improve balance and upper and lower extremity muscle strength. For the HBI test of all participants, in order to avoid tobacco, alcohol, and drug use, they could exercise at least three days per week, for more than 30 minutes each time, mainly outdoor exercise. In this study, exercise behavior had the greatest explanatory power on the health behaviors of older adults, followed by social support and social cohesion, which also had a high predictive power on the health behavior of older adults. Finally, the interventions of the multi-component exercise program in this study were shown to positively affect the older adults' exercise behavior, social support, and social cohesion, with a total positive effect on health behavior. The value of this study is helpful for older adults to adopt outdoor group exercise; creating social opportunities in this way is good for mental health, which, in turn, leads to improved physical and mental health.

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Section: Health Behavior Inventory For the Older Adultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of Exercise Behavior, Social Cohesion, and Social Support on Health Behaviors in Older Adults: Intervention in a Multi-Component Exercise Program

2023

J Community Med Public Health

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“…In this study, our attention is focused on three popular and visible behaviours: smoking, lack of exercise and alcohol consumption. These are part of the six-health behaviour inventory analysed by Awabil and Anene (2018). The essence of our analysis here is to decipher the habits of slumdwellers and consider if the fatalism that may be inhered in their health behaviour is attributable to environmental or other factors.…”

Section: Health Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intersectionality, Relativity and Multiple Deprivation in Upper Saponba Area, Benin City, Nigeria

Okolocha¹

2018

SSAN

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Intersectionality is discussed as a harvest of multiple disadvantages and deprivations by majority of urbanites. Parameters of disadvantage include cash poverty, poor health, lack of electricity, water and sanitation, proneness to crime and illiteracy, unemployment and underemployment. The study adopted a mixed method model and proceeded with a structured questionnaire administered to a sample of 1022 respondents in Upper Saponba area, the largest slum district in Benin City, southern Nigeria. Supplementary data were collected through in-depth interview with a purposive sample of 10 community members. Results seem to negate the culture of poverty hypothesis even as many poor residents express despair on the prospects of a good life in the city. This desolation coincides with new public policy by which governments withdraw from public space in the face of increasing poverty. We conclude that social intersectionality in urban Africa is a simultaneity of poverty and deprivations exacerbated by exclusionary public policies. Effectual public policy will depend on a recognition of the inter-linkages between parameters of disadvantage, deprivation and social exclusion.

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Assessment of Health Behaviours and Satisfaction with Life among Catholic Priests in Poland

Kalita¹,

Leszczak

Czenczek‐Lewandowska

et al. 2023

J Relig Health

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The aim of the study was to assess the relationship between the health behaviours of diocesan priests in Poland and their level of life satisfaction. The specific goal was to determine the factors that most affect their quality of health (internal health control, the influence of others or coincidence) and life satisfaction (positive mental attitude, preventive behaviour, eating habits, health practices). The study involved 250 diocesan priests from the Podkarpackie region who took part in the research by completing an anonymous questionnaire. The questions were mainly based on tools for assessing health behaviours, namely the HBI—health behaviour inventory, MHLC—multidimensional scale of health locus of control and the SWLS—satisfaction with life scale. The general index of health behaviour of clergymen on the HBI scale was 77.12 ± 16.20 (Me = 78), showing a moderate level on the sten scale. On the MHLC health locus of control scale, the respondents believed that their health depended most on internal control: 25.27 ± 5.10 and the influence of others: 23.13 ± 5.57, are of utmost importance for their health. To a lesser extent they believed that health was dependent on chance: 17.60 ± 5.95. The SWLS satisfaction with life index was 22.51 ± 5.43 (Me = 23), also within the moderate range of the sten scale. The factors most closely related to the assessment of life satisfaction were positive mental attitudes and the overall HBI index. The health behaviours of priests measured by the HBI scale and the level of satisfaction with the life of SWLS clergymen are within a moderate range. On the MHLC scale, priests likewise believe that their health depends on themselves and then on others. They are clearly less likely to indicate accidental causes.

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The Health Behaviour Inventory: Initial Development, Factor Structure and Evidence of Reliability

Cited by 3 publications

References 3 publications

Effects of Exercise Behavior, Social Cohesion, and Social Support on Health Behaviors in Older Adults: Intervention in a Multi-Component Exercise Program

Effects of Exercise Behavior, Social Cohesion, and Social Support on Health Behaviors in Older Adults: Intervention in a Multi-Component Exercise Program

Intersectionality, Relativity and Multiple Deprivation in Upper Saponba Area, Benin City, Nigeria

Assessment of Health Behaviours and Satisfaction with Life among Catholic Priests in Poland

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