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The aim of this study is to provide a systematic overview of the scientific literature on sociodemographic, psychological and social determinants that may facilitate or hamper lifestyle change after the diagnosis cancer. Four databases (PubMed, PsychINFO, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), and Web of Science) were searched for relevant papers up to October 2021. Of the 9586 references yielded by the literature search, 123 papers were included: 71 quantitative and 52 qualitative papers. Findings showed a large variety of determinants influencing lifestyle change after cancer diagnosis, with differences between lifestyle behaviors (physical activity, diet, smoking, alcohol, sun protection, and multiple lifestyle behaviors) and findings from quantitative vs. qualitative studies. Findings demonstrate the important role of oncology healthcare professionals in promoting healthy lifestyle changes in cancer survivors. In addition, findings inform researchers involved in the development of health promotion programs about the methods and strategies they can use to promote healthy lifestyle changes in cancer survivors. Favorable lifestyle changes are expected to have beneficial effects on cancer risk and overall health in cancer survivors.

Regular engagement in physical activity has well-established physical and psychological health benefits. Despite this, over a quarter of the global adult population is insufficiently physically active. Physical activity interventions grounded in behaviour change theory, such as the social-cognitive theory, are widely considered to be more effective than non-theoretical approaches. Such interventions set out to intervene on the ultimate outcome (physical activity), but also influence intermediate factors (social-cognitive theory constructs) which in turn, are believed to influence physical activity behaviour. The primary aim of the study was to use mediation analysis to examine whether changes in the social-cognitive theory and related constructs, in particular self-efficacy, outcome expectations, intentions, barriers and goal setting, mediated the effects of a smartphone-based social networking physical activity intervention.

Det här arbetet är en studie i hur jag bäst motiveras till att öva. Jag har testat olika metoder men framför allt utvecklat min egen modell men avstamp i Flow, Social-Cognitve theory, Self-determination theory och Goal-orientation theory. Motivation är anledningen till att vi kan bli framgångsrika musiker och att fostra sin egen motivation borde vara grundläggande för alla blivande musiker., Etude in e minor - Pius Cheung Ripple - Akira Miyoshi Purity 2 - Thomasz GolinskiMagical Sphere - Rodrigo F. Marques Asventuras - Alexej Gerrasimez Octabones - Adi MoragTango Suite for two Guitars, Nr. 2 - Astor Piazzolla Annanstans - Erik Natanael Lemuria, the Fallen Civilization - Csaba MarjánPrelude in g minor - Sergei RachmaninoffMedverkande :Elias GustafssonRasmus Hansson JönssonFilmen är min ExamenskonsertInspelningen av konserten startar först efter några minuter.

Regular engagement in physical activity has well-established physical and psychological health benefits. Despite this, over a quarter of the global adult population is insufficiently physically active. Physical activity interventions grounded in behaviour change theory, such as the social-cognitive theory, are widely considered to be more effective than non-theoretical approaches. Such interventions set out to intervene on the ultimate outcome (physical activity), but also influence intermediate factors (social-cognitive theory constructs) which in turn, are believed to influence physical activity behaviour. The primary aim of the study was to use mediation analysis to examine whether changes in the social-cognitive theory and related constructs, in particular self-efficacy, outcome expectations, intentions, barriers and goal setting, mediated the effects of a smartphone-based social networking physical activity intervention.

Det här arbetet är en studie i hur jag bäst motiveras till att öva. Jag har testat olika metoder men framför allt utvecklat min egen modell men avstamp i Flow, Social-Cognitve theory, Self-determination theory och Goal-orientation theory. Motivation är anledningen till att vi kan bli framgångsrika musiker och att fostra sin egen motivation borde vara grundläggande för alla blivande musiker., Etude in e minor - Pius Cheung Ripple - Akira Miyoshi Purity 2 - Thomasz GolinskiMagical Sphere - Rodrigo F. Marques Asventuras - Alexej Gerrasimez Octabones - Adi MoragTango Suite for two Guitars, Nr. 2 - Astor Piazzolla Annanstans - Erik Natanael Lemuria, the Fallen Civilization - Csaba MarjánPrelude in g minor - Sergei RachmaninoffMedverkande :Elias GustafssonRasmus Hansson JönssonFilmen är min ExamenskonsertInspelningen av konserten startar först efter några minuter.

PurposeAccidents and unintentional injuries account for the greatest number of adolescent deaths, often involving use of alcohol and other substances. This article describes the iterative design and development of Interactive Narrative System for Patient-Individualized Reflective Exploration (INSPIRE), a narrative-centered behavior change environment for adolescents focused on reducing alcohol use. INSPIRE is designed to serve as an extension to clinical preventive care, engaging adolescents in a theoretically grounded intervention for health behavior change by leveraging 3D game engine and interactive narrative technologies.MethodsAdolescents were engaged in all aspects of the iterative, multiyear development process of INSPIRE through over 20 focus groups and iterative pilot testing involving more than 145 adolescents. Qualitative findings from focus groups are reported, as well as quantitative findings from small-scale pilot sessions investigating adolescent engagement with a prototype version of INSPIRE using a combination of questionnaire and interaction trace log data.ResultsAdolescents reported that they found INSPIRE to be engaging, believable, and relevant to their lives. The majority of participants indicated that the narrative's protagonist character was like them (84%) and that the narrative featured virtual characters that they could relate to (79%). In the interactive narrative, the goals most frequently chosen by adolescents were "stay in control" (60%) and "do not get in trouble" (55%).ConclusionsWith a strong theoretical framework (social-cognitive behavior change theory) and technology advances (narrative-centered learning environments), the field is well positioned to design health behavior change systems that can realize significant impacts on behavior change for adolescent preventive health.

Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to evaluate the efficacy and impact of a didactic and hands-on active shooter simulated training on healthcare workers' knowledge and self-efficacy at a local integrative health clinic. Background: Active shooter incidents are unpredictable, evolve rapidly, and can strike anywhere, at any time. Institutions are particularly high-risk targets, with 160 active shooter incidents reported from 2000 through 2013, resulting in over 1,043 casualties. Healthcare environments pose unique challenges in an active shooter situation due to vulnerable patients, bio-hazardous materials, and specialized equipment. Hence, health care professionals must receive adequate instruction on responding to an active shooter incident in a way that best reduces the number of casualties. Method: This quality improvement project was conducted in a local integrative clinic attached to a Reserve Medical Unit, located on a military base in Arizona. The project was an outcome of a change proposal that used the Model for Implementation and the PDSA cycle. The design was a pretest-posttest didactic instruction and simulation activity. Results: Twenty members attended the training session. All participants completed all components of the intervention and survey. The results demonstrated an increase in the knowledge of the participants of active shooter incidents. It also showed an upsurge in perceived self-efficacy and preparedness among participants in handling future active shooter incidents. Conclusion: This project affirms that didactic and hands-on training can improve staff confidence and preparedness to protect self and safeguard others during an active shooter incident.

Chronic kidney disease affects 10% of Australians. This thesis reports a three-phase project involving development, implementation, and evaluation of a novel intervention, the Chronic Kidney Disease Self-Management Support program (CKD-SMS), designed to support people with early stages of this disease. After receiving the intervention, participants displayed significant improvements in multiple clinical outcomes and reported a high level of satisfaction with the program. This study has implications for supporting people with CKD in general practice and indicates that, by tailoring support to individual needs, positive health outcomes which may help to slow disease progression can be achieved.

Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) is essential to the smooth functioning of organizations. A vast amount of research examining OCB has established the benefits of such behavior to businesses. In addition, individual- and organizational-level antecedents of citizenship behavior have been widely studied and well established. However, a sound assessment of OCB, which acknowledges the true social cognitive nature of the phenomenon, is yet to be developed. The purpose of this study is two-fold: First, this study seeks to develop a reliable, accurate measure of OCB. Second, this study utilizes the newly developed measure to determine how personal characteristics and situational influences interact to produce helping behavior. More specifically, this study explores how equity sensitivity, locus of control, self-esteem, and affectivity determine whether an employee engages in helping behavior. Further, the current study examines whether situation cue strength moderates the relationship between the aforementioned personality characteristics and an employee's decision to engage in helping behavior.

This study investigated attrition in a 6-month physical activity intervention for older adults. The program was based on the social-cognitive theory incorporating self-efficacy factors. Two hundred forty-eight insufficiently active 65- to 74-year olds were recruited from the Australian federal electoral roll. The intervention comprised walking and strength and flexibility exercises and was conducted in 30 local neighborhoods where the participants resided. Characteristics of individuals lost to attrition (n = 86, 35%) were compared with those of programcompleters (n = 162, 65%). Logistic-regression analysis showed that those lost to attrition came from areas of lower socioeconomic status, were overweight and less physically active, and had lower walking self-efficacy scores and higher loneliness scores. The results suggest that early assessment of these characteristics should be undertaken to identify individuals at risk of attrition, to improve retention, and to avoid potential bias.

Self- and collective-efficacy beliefs were examined as main determinants of teachers' job satisfaction. In 103 Italian junior high schools, 2,688 teachers filled out self-reports to assess self-efficacy beliefs, their perceptions of the extent to which other school constituencies, namely, the principal, colleagues, staff, students, and families, were behaving in accordance with their obligations toward school well-functioning, their collective-efficacy beliefs, and their job satisfaction. Multilevel structural equation modeling analyse's corroborated a conceptual model in which individual and collective-efficacy beliefs represent, respectively, the distal and proximal determinants of teachers' job satisfaction. The perceptions that teachers have of other constituencies' behavior largely mediated the links between self- and collective-efficacy beliefs. Collective-efficacy beliefs, in turn, partially mediated the influence that teachers' perceptions of other school constituencies' behavior exerts on their own job satisfaction

Heavy drinking has been consistently associated with negative legal, academic, and health problems in college students and recent studies suggest that the frequency of undergraduates experiencing alcohol related problems may be increasing. Research aimed at lowering rates of consumption has begun to focus on individual differences in motivations for heavy alcohol use. The following study used a social-cognitive based model to prospectively examine heavy drinking among socially anxious college students. It was hypothesized that alcohol expectancies of social facilitation/anxiety reduction and self-efficacy for avoiding heavy drinking in socially anxious situations would be predictive of drinking in socially anxious college students. Using group testing and individual interview formats questionnaires assessing alcohol expectancies of improved sociability and self-efficacy were developed and shown to have adequate levels of reliability and construct validity. These questionnaires, along with measures of dispositional social anxiety, and a quantity-frequency index of alcohol use were then administered to 372 undergraduates. Seventy-one participants, identified as dispositionally socially anxious, were followed-up six-weeks later and completed both a time-line-follow-back assessment of their alcohol use over the six week interval and a semi-structured interview that assessed the types of situations in which they drank. Results of the study provided partial support for the hypothesized model as the expectancy X efficacy interaction accounted for a significant percentage of the variance in the quantity and frequency of alcohol use after controlling for the main effects of alcohol expectancies and self-efficacy. At the six-week follow-up however, the expectancy X efficacy interaction failed to account for significant variance beyond that accounted for by the expectancy and efficacy effects. Further examination of the follow-up data did provide partial support for the model