Behavioral mediators of colorectal cancer screening in a randomized controlled intervention trial.

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Maxwell, A. E., Bastani, R., Crespi, C. M., Danao, L. L., & Cayetano, R. T. (2011). Behavioral mediators of colorectal cancer screening in a randomized controlled intervention trial. Preventive Medicine: An International Journal Devoted to Practice and Theory, 52(2), 167-173.
Background: Understanding mediators for behavioral change is important for the optimization of intervention strategies. This report examines mediators of change in the context of …

Effectiveness of the extended parallel process model in promoting colorectal cancer screening.

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Birmingham, W. C., Hung, M., Boonyasiriwat, W., Kohlmann, W., Walters, S. T., Burt, R. W., Kinney, A. Y. (2015). Effectiveness of the extended parallel process model in promoting colorectal cancer screening. Psycho-Oncology, 24(10), 1265-1278.
Objective: Relatives of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients are at increased risk for the disease, yet screening rates still remain low. Guided by the Extended Parallel Process Model…

Colorectal cancer screening in older men and women: Qualitative research findings and implications for intervention.

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Beeker, C., Kraft, J. M., Southwell, B. G., & Jorgensen, C. M. (2000). Colorectal cancer screening in older men and women: Qualitative research findings and implications for intervention. Journal of Community Health: The Publication for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, 25(3), 263-278.
As part of the formative research for developing interventions to increase colorectal cancer screening in men and women aged 50 and older, 14 focus groups were conducted to identi…

Risk perception measures' associations with behavior intentions, affect, and cognition following colon cancer screening messages.

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Dillard, A. J., Ferrer, R. A., Ubel, P. A., & Fagerlin, A. (2012). Risk perception measures' associations with behavior intentions, affect, and cognition following colon cancer screening messages. Health Psychology, 31(1), 106-113.
Objective: Risk perception is important for motivating health behavior (e.g., Janz & Becker, 1984), but different measures of the construct may change how important that relations…

Cancer prevention among rural youth: Building a "bridge" to better health with genealogy.

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Harmon, A. L., Westerberg, A. L., Bond, D. S., Hoy, K. N., Fries, E. A., & Danish, S. J. (2005). Cancer prevention among rural youth: Building a "bridge" to better health with genealogy. Journal of Cancer Education, 20(2), 103-107.
Background: The Bridge to Better Health (BRIDGE) project is a program that focuses on providing rural high school youth with motivation, knowledge, and skills essential to cancer …

The link between women's body image disturbances and body-focused cancer screening behaviors: A critical review of the literature and a new integrated model for women.

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Ridolfi, D. R., & Crowther, J. H. (2013). The link between women's body image disturbances and body-focused cancer screening behaviors: A critical review of the literature and a new integrated model for women. Body Image, 10(2), 149-162.
A large body of literature demonstrates the association between body image disturbances and health compromising behaviors among women (e.g., pathological eating, substance use, in…

Mediation of improvements in sun protective and skin self-examination behaviours: Results from the healthy text study.

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Baker, J., Finch, L., Soyer, H. P., Marshall, A. L., Baade, P., Youl, P., & Janda, M. (2016). Mediation of improvements in sun protective and skin self-examination behaviours: Results from the healthy text study. Psycho-Oncology, 25(1), 28-35.
Objective: Melanoma is on the rise, especially in Caucasian populations exposed to high ultraviolet radiation such as in Australia. This paper examined the psychological component…

Knowledge, attitudes and behaviour in the sun: the barriers to behavioural change in Northern Ireland. 

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Owen, T., Fitzpatrick, D., Dolan, O., & Gavin, A. (2004). Knowledge, attitudes and behaviour in the sun: the barriers to behavioural change in Northern Ireland. The Ulster medical journal, 73(2), 96.
To inform future health promotion programmes, we studied the knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of the Northern Ireland population to sun care. An interviewer-administered questio…

Primary school sun protection policies and practices 4 years after baseline—a follow-up study. 

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Reeder, A. I., Jopson, J. A., & Gray, A. (2012). Primary school sun protection policies and practices 4 years after baseline—a follow-up study. Health Education Research, 27(5), 844-856.
Before the 2005 launch of the New Zealand SunSmart Schools Accreditation Programme (SSAP), 242 randomly sampled primary schools completed a mail survey about sun protection polici…

Getting in early: primary skin cancer prevention at 55 German kindergartens. 

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Stöver, L. A., Hinrichs, B., Petzold, U., Kuhlmei, H., Baumgart, J., Parpart, C., ... & Stockfleth, E. (2012). Getting in early: primary skin cancer prevention at 55 German kindergartens. British Journal of Dermatology, 167(s2), 63-69.
Background: Skin neoplasms are the most frequent types of neoplasms in white populations, and their incidence is increasing. Epidemiological studies have shown that the major envi…

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