While we found 70% of the 23 included studies reported benefit, the literature base is still small, with most of the PHR research focusing on intention to use, usability, and use characteristics.
There are other versions of mental-state focused agent relativity that do not focus on intentions (Hurd 1994).
Both theories focus on intentions that are personal decisions to perform behaviour and are based on someone's knowledge about themselves and about the world around them.
As such, the PAA aims to focus on intentions, motives, discourses, beliefs of actors, formal and informal regulatory roles and organizational structures, but also takes into account long-term processes that characterize contemporary society.
Donna Rosenberg, of the University of Colorado, told me that researchers' focus on intention was misguided.
"He showed up with the tools, that incredible voice, the ability to focus on intention," Mr. Grief recalled.
As friends began to talk about New Year's resolutions, as I read them online and all around me, that year, I realized that rather than make resolutions, I wanted to focus on intention.
The theory focuses on intention to engage in a particular behaviour (in this case the intention to use research evidence in policymaking) and three variables (attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioural control) that the theory suggests will predict the intention to perform the behaviour [ 8, 9].
HealthForce targeted motivational elements to create intentions to change behaviour and volitional elements, focusing on translating intentions into planned behaviours.
