Control beliefs

Knowledge, attitudes, and practices are essential measures for planning and evaluating cancer control programs. Little is known about these in Iran. We conducted a population-based interview survey of adults aged 30–70 using the Farsi version of the Awareness and Beliefs about Cancer questionnaire in the capital province of Tehran, Iran, 2019.

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Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is the leading cause of health concerns among Ethiopian migrant workers. Understanding risk perception and health-protective behavior are significant challenges in the prevention and eradication of the disease. As a result, studies are required to assess these important epidemiological factors, which will provide guidance on how to assist migrant workers in taking preventive measures against VL.

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The present research explored the effect of an educational program based on the health belief model (HBM) on prisoners’ HIV preventive behaviors in the south of Iran. The present quasi-experimental research was conducted in 2019–20 on 280 prisoners, 140 in the control group (CG) and 140 in the intervention group (IG).

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Lecture Consumer finance: Chapter 3 - Behavioral economics and financial decisions I provide students with knowledge about mis estimation of probabilities, self control and temptation, retirement saving example, product design brainstorm, beliefs, heuristics and biases.

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The purposes of this study were to investigate various theoretical hypotheses in the CHB model and to present a model whose concept expands from the original CHB model. A cross-sectional survey was designed for the present study. The sample consisted of 788 undergraduate students (mean age 19 years).

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This research used a quantitative method and conducted at universities in Medan city, Indonesia. The population of this research was university students with a total sample of 395 respondents. The analysis was carried out with SEMPLS. Attitudes and beliefs were affecting perceived behavior control. In addition, beliefs are also affecting energy conservation application on green campus. Therefore, the campus policy and management should consider students green behavior in designing energy conservation application for green campus.

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Perceived psychological and social factors at work were strongly associated with fear–avoidance beliefs about work in sick-listed neck and back patients. The demand for physical endurance, control, support, high reward, as well as overcommittment at work outweighed pain and added to the burden of emotional distress and disability regarding fear–avoidance beliefs.

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Neck and back pain are among the most common causes of prolonged disability, and development of interventions with effect on pain, disability and return to work is important. Reduction of fear avoidance might be one mechanism behind improvement after interventions.

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Epidemic P. aeruginosa (ePA) infections are common in cystic fibrosis (CF) and have been associated with accelerated clinical decline. Factors associated with ePA are unclear, and evidence based infection control interventions are lacking.

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Previous heart rate variability (HRV) studies in asthmatic subjects (AS) demonstrate predominance of parasympathetic drive concomitant with low HRV, which is against the general belief that enhanced parasympathetic modulation improves HRV.

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Catastrophic thinking and fear-avoidance belief are negatively influencing severe acute pain following surgery causing delayed ambulation and discharge. We aimed to examine if a preoperative intervention of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) could influence the early postsurgical outcome following lumbar spinal fusion surgery (LSF).

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Breast cancer and its treatment-related adverse effects are harmful to physical, psychological, and social functioning, leading to health-related quality of life (HRQoL) impairment in patients.

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In this paper, a procedure to develop an automatic CNC program for machining of different types of holes by using different machine learning algorithms is developed.

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Locus of Control (LOC) refers to an individuals’ belief system regarding the consequences of his or her actions which is based on the convictions that determine the attitude of an individual towards success or failure. Locus of control is an important personality trait known to be associated with various variables including mental health of an individual. The major objective of the present study was to examine the relationship of locus of control with mental health among college students.

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Many corporate finance authors argue that market-based systems should be preferred in countries with high risk tolerance, because high risk offers higher return. However, few authors have empirically examined the relationship between entrepreneurs’ culture and companies’ financial decisions. In addition, most of these authors have focused their studies on the national culture rather than the culture of the individual entrepreneurs. This study aims to analyze the effect of the entrepreneurs’ cultural beliefs on financial choices, more specifically on the bank indebtedness of the company.

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Mental illness effects every segment of population including young adults. The beliefs held by young patients regarding the causes of mental illness impact their treatment-seeking behaviour. It is pertinent to know the commonly held attributions around mental illness so as to effectively provide psychological care, especially in a resource constrained context such as Kenya.

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Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) represents a unique clinical challenge for patients and health care providers due to unclear etiology and lack of specific treatment. Characteristic patterns of behavior and cognitions might be related to how CFS patients respond to management strategies.

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Fifty-five Chinese kindergarten teachers from Shenzhen (n = 38) and Hong Kong (n = 17) were surveyed to discern their beliefs and reported practices about multiple literacies related to e-learning and knowledge management.

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Generally, technicism is a reliance or confidence in technology as a benefactor of society. Taken to extreme, technicism is the belief that humanity will ultimately be able to control the entirety of existence using technology. In other words, human beings will someday be able to master all problems and possibly even control the future using technology. Some, such as Stephen V. Monsma,[43] connect these ideas to the abdication of religion as a higher moral authority.

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Technology-based standards are designed to facilitate the use of known, effective, demonstrated pollution prevention and control technologies. The release standards for new and existing pulp mills in Alberta were adopted after evaluation of technologies and wastewater treatment systems for Alberta pulp and paper mills, and top performing mills throughout the United States and Europe (see Appendix 1). The data for European mills are performance expectations and do not represent the regulatory standards that may be applied.

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