Characteristics of participating and nonparticipating men in a randomized, controlled diet and exercise intervention trial
| Autor: | Hellenius Ml, Näslund Gk, Mats Fredrikson, de Faire U |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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Research design
Adult Male medicine.medical_specialty Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice media_common.quotation_subject Physical exercise Coronary Disease law.invention Randomized controlled trial law Risk Factors Intervention (counseling) Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Personality Humans Myocardial infarction Stroke Exercise media_common Demography business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Middle Aged medicine.disease Diet Clinical trial Research Design Physical therapy business Attitude to Health |
| Zdroj: | Scandinavian journal of primary health care. 12(4) |
| ISSN: | 0281-3432 |
| Popis: | To study characteristics of importance for participation in a diet and physical exercise prevention programme.Primary Health Care, Sollentuna, and the Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.A sample of 187 men, aged 35-60, with increased risk factors for CHD, were invited to a 6-month prevention programme. Participants (n = 158) were randomized into a diet group, a physical exercise group, a diet and physical exercise group, and a control group. Twenty-seven men, who declined participation, formed the group of nonparticipants.Participants and nonparticipants were compared with respect to health beliefs, health knowledge, CHD risk factors, demographic and personality factors.Characteristics of men participating and not participating in the intervention trial.Nonparticipants, compared with participants, believed less in the benefits of dietary change and perceived the health threat of stroke and myocardial infarction as less serious. Nonparticipants had a better knowledge of a number of risk factors for cardiovascular disease.Belief in treatment efficacy and perceived health threat, rather than health knowledge, predicted initial participation in a non-pharmacological intervention trial. |
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