A quasi-experimental 2-group repeated-measures design was used to test the impact of a feeding skills training program on 67 nursing assistants (treatment group n = 31; control group n = 36) regarding their knowledge, attitudes, perceived behavior control, intentions, and behaviors in feeding dementia patients.
This theory assesses attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, intentions and planning.
One-way analyses of variance were used to compare the demographics, maternal beliefs, attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control, intentions to exercise, and current physical activity levels between the Chinese and Australian samples.
Because we were interested in studying birth control intentions among women who actually may face those choices, we excluded women who had undergone tubal ligation, who had undergone menopause, or who were otherwise sterile.
As outlined in the Background, in these theories the main constructs hypothesised to shape behaviours are knowledge, perceived risk/susceptibility, anticipated outcome/regret, self-efficacy/perceived control, intentions/ goals and subjective norms [ 13, 44].
The main ones are knowledge, perceived risk/susceptibility, anticipated outcome/regret, self-efficacy/perceived control, intentions or goals, and subjective norms (individuals' perceptions of the predominant views of appropriate behaviour).
Participants were 89 pregnant women who completed self-reported measures of their exercise attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, intention, and behavior.
Appropriate instruments were designed to measure the variables of interest (attitude, subjective norms, perceived behaviour control, intention along with helmet use behaviour).
The intervention group made significantly higher gains in perceived behavioural control, intention and behaviour for both target behaviours, suggesting that the intervention was successful.
Measures of donation attitude, perceived behavioral control, intention, and motivational autonomy will be measured before and after the telephone contact using online surveys, and donation attempts will be tracked for one year using blood center donor databases.
*Attitude, subjective norm, observed behavior control, intention.
