Effect of an intervention mapping approach to promote the consumption of fruits and vegetables among young adults in junior college: A quasi-experimental study.

Objective: This study evaluates the effectiveness of an intervention mapping developed to promote fruit and vegetable consumption.

Design: Students (n = 394) from two similar public colleges in the Quebec City area (Canada) were asked to participate. A quasi-experimental design was used with a 14-week pause between the pretest and posttest.

Using the theory of planned behaviour to predict nurses' intention to integrate research evidence into clinical decision-making.

Aims: Using an extended theory of planned behaviour, this article is a report of a study to identify the factors that influence nurses' intention to integrate research evidence into their clinical decision-making.

Background: Health professionals are increasingly asked to adopt evidence-based practice. The integration of research evidence in nurses' clinical decision-making would have an important impact on the quality of care provided for patients.

[The critical reading of scientific articles, an easy-to-use method].

Faced with the abundance of available literature, clinicians must follow a method in order to carry out a critical reading of scientific articles. This enables them to decide how relevant the selected article is to the issues specific to their area of work and to choose whether to undertake a basic critical reading or to embark on an active reading.

[The nursing practice informed by research: leader training in health organizations, a promising path].

Problem: Despite the recognition by nurses of the importance of supporting their experiential knowledge on scientific data, evidence-based nursing research is seldom integrated in their practice. An important limitation is the nurses' general lack of basic abilities to use research to better inform their clinical decision making. The objective of this pilot study was to evaluate a leader training intervention on research results integration in nursing practice.

Seeing is believing: an educational outreach activity on disinfection practices.

Background: Skin and soft-tissue infections are very common among persons who inject drugs. They occur when microbes pass under the protective layer of the skin and proliferate. This happens when harm reduction recommendations such as skin aseptia before injection and sterile injection equipment usage are not properly followed.

Promotion of safe sex: evaluation of a community-level intervention programme in gay bars, saunas and sex shops.

This study was an evaluation of a safe sex promotion programme in gay bars, saunas and sex shops in Québec City. The impact of the intervention on safe sex was assessed by means of an interrupted sequential pre-interventions and post-interventions quasi-experimental design with independent samples. At each measurement time, approximately 320 individuals were recruited in gay bars and saunas and were invited to complete a self-administered questionnaire.

Efficiency of an evidence-based intervention to promote and reinforce tobacco abstinence among elementary schoolchildren in a school transition period.

This study reports the evaluation of an intervention designed to reinforce tobacco abstinence among elementary schoolchildren in a school transition period. This intervention was developed according to the principles of Intervention Mapping. A total of 765 grade 5 students (ages 10-12) was recruited in 32 elementary schools.

Identification of factors promoting abstinence from smoking in a cohort of elementary schoolchildren.

Background: Despite the progress made in smoking prevention among youth, few scientific reports have identified the determinants underlying the abstinence from cigarettes, and even fewer have made an assessment of their evolution over time. It has been proposed that this could be done by modeling after theoretical frameworks.

Methods: A self-reported questionnaire developed according to Ajzen's Theory of Planned Behavior was repeatedly administered to a cohort of 373 grade 5 students (191 girls and 182 boys) during their transition from elementary to secondary school.