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Enhancing health knowledge, health beliefs, and health behavior in Poland through a health promoting television program series.

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This study examined the impact of a health promoting television program series on health knowledge and the key factors of the health belief model (HBM) that have led people to engage in healthy behavior (exercising, losing weight, changing eating habits, ... (Full abstract text below)

Published 2002 May-Jun in Journal: J Health Commun (Language : eng)

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1. J Health Commun. 2002 May-Jun;7(3):179-96

Enhancing health knowledge, health beliefs, and health behavior in Poland through a health promoting television program series.

Chew F, Palmer S, Slonska Z, Subbiah K

S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, New York 13244-2100, USA. cmrfchew@syr.edu

This study examined the impact of a health promoting television program series on health knowledge and the key factors of the health belief model (HBM) that have led people to engage in healthy behavior (exercising, losing weight, changing eating habits, and not smoking/quitting smoking). Using data from a posttest comparison field study with 15) viewers and 146 nonviewers in Poland, we found that hierarchical regression analysis showed stronger support for the HBM factors of efficacy, susceptibility, seriousness, and salience in their contribution toward health behavior among television viewers compared with nonviewers. Cues to action variables (including television viewing) and health knowledge boosted efficacy among viewers. Without the advantage of receiving health information from the television series, nonviewers relied on their basic disease fears on one hand, and interest in good health on the other to take steps toward becoming healthier. A health promoting television series can increase health knowledge and enhance health beliefs, which in turn contribute to healthy behaviors.

PMID : 12166872 [PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE]

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First Name	LastName	Initials
Fiona	Chew	F
Sushma	Palmer	S
Zofia	Slonska	Z
Kalyani	Subbiah	K

Affiliation: S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, New York 13244-2100, USA. cmrfchew@syr.edu

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