Communicating familial risk increased personal control and, thus, did not result in fatalism.
Our study shows that an intervention in which familial risk of diabetes is communicated did not result in fatalism and actually led to increased perceived control over preventing diabetes.
It's spellbound music, rapt in fatalism and sorrow.
This is a film that, despite some lighter touches, is steeped in fatalism and even grief.
Or a study in fatalism -- kismet, as we used romantically to call it?
Closely related to the concept of faith-based invulnerability is the belief in fatalism and predestination.
To reduce dissonance, many sex workers had a strong belief in fatalism, predestination, and faith-based invulnerability to HIV infection.
Associations were summarized using odds ratios (OR), the ratio of the odds of past mammography per a 1-unit increase in continuous independent factor scales (subjective physician norm, cultural affiliation, fatalism, knowledge of mammography screening guidelines, and perceived behavior control barriers) or between groups defined by categorical variables, and 95% confidence intervals (CI).
In the test-group there was a significant increase in the child weekly brushing frequency and a significant reduction in oral health fatalism, compared to the control-group (independent sample t-test).
Similarly, it is hypothesized that MI as compared to the HE will result in a greater percentage of mothers classified by the Readiness Ladder as in the action stage (versus pre-contemplation and contemplation stages), a greater increase in oral health knowledge and self-efficacy, and lower level of oral health fatalism.
