Health Psychology : a Textbook

According to the sexual behaviour sequence model, decisions about contraception are made in the context of both rational informa ...

4 Socio-economic status: there is conflicting evidence concerning the relationship between SES and contraceptive use with some r ...

2 Parents: there is some evidence to suggest that increased parental permissiveness and explicit communication between mothers a ...

(1989) argued that increased condom use and not abstinence or non-penetrative sex or a reduction in the number of partners is li ...

73 per cent had had female partners and 60 per cent had had at least one male and one female partner. In terms of their condom u ...

studies suggest that unprotected anal sex is resurfacing as an increasing problem. This suggests that the substantial increase i ...

smoking in the short term), but safer sex is an ongoing behaviour, which requires an ongoing determination to adopt condom use a ...

action process approach (HAPA, see Chapter 2), which places self-efficacy in a central role for predicting behaviour. In additio ...

illness and theories of sexual behaviour. Cognitive models cannot address this broader context. Perceptions of susceptibility, s ...

people do not appear to believe that they themselves are at risk, which is perhaps why they do not engage in self-protective beh ...

Design The study involved a cross-sectional design with all subjects completing a self- administered questionnaire. Questionnair ...

more likely to occur if the partner was a regular lover, if the subject reported a greater desire to have sex without a condom, ...

did not appear to be the case with the women they interviewed. The qualitative data from the WRAP study provides some insights i ...

Government health education campaigns Ingham et al. (1991) examined UK campaigns that promoted safe sex and suggested that sloga ...

These problems with school sex education, reflect the debates about using psycho- logical models to examine sexual behaviour and ...

specific gay culture, one in which there are clear values which structure their new social world, shaping their relationships an ...

However, perhaps an understanding of sexual behaviour can only take place within the wider context of educational influences, po ...

3 Theories are derived from data. Theories are not data themselves. It is assumed that eventually we will develop the best way t ...

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9 Screening CHAPTER OVERVIEW This chapter examines definitions of screening and describes the history of the screening of popula ...