Publications by authors named "Qijia Ye"
Although health-promotion interventions that recommend changes across multiple behavioral domains are a newer alternative to single-behavior interventions, their general efficacy and their mechanisms of change have not been fully ascertained. This comprehensive meta-analysis (6,878 effect sizes from 803 independent samples from 364 research reports, = 186,729 participants) examined the association between the number of behavioral recommendations in multiple-behavior interventions and behavioral and clinical change across eight domains (i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObesity rates remain high among U.S. adults, especially rural residents.
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- Disadvantaged populations, including those in developing countries and racial/ethnic and sexual minorities in the U.S., face greater challenges with HIV infection and treatment due to complex social health disparities.
- Multiple-behavior interventions, which target various interconnected risk factors, are shown to be more effective than single-behavior interventions in improving outcomes for these groups.
- The study found no significant differences in efficacy of these interventions based on racial/ethnic or sexual minority representation within the U.S. population, indicating a broad applicability of these approaches.
Unlabelled: Studies have shown that older adolescents have a low perceived personal risk of COVID-19, and yet their ability and willingness to engage in COVID-19 prevention behaviors is imperative for community health. Thus, health communication scholars need to consider alternative psycho-social predictors of prevention behaviors that will assist in protecting others in a pandemic. Based on Schwartz's Norms Activation Model (NAM; Schwartz, 1977), we examined the relationship between moral norms and COVID-19 prevention behaviors (mask wearing and physical distancing).
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