Publications by authors named "Richard I Evans"
Context: Although much has been published on patient complaints about physicians, little is known about patient behaviors that physicians find bothersome.
Objective: To obtain more information about bothersome patient behaviors, we performed a pilot survey of neurologists.
Methods: A survey was performed among neurologists attending the Texas Neurological Society Winter Conference in 2006 in Austin, Texas.
Interdisciplinary treatment plannning for patients with advanced periodontal disease.
Ann R Australas Coll Dent Surg
October 2002
For the past several years the author and his colleagues have explored the area of how social psychological constructs and theoretical models can be applied to the prevention of health threatening behaviors in adolescents. In examining the need for the development of gambling prevention programs for adolescents, it might be of value to consider the application of such constructs and theoretical models as a foundation to the development of prevention programs in this emerging problem behavior among adolescents. In order to provide perspective to the reader, the present paper reviews the history of various psychosocial models and constructs generic to programs directed at prevention of substance abuse in adolescents.
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- The study explores how global positive expectancies influence substance use among adolescents, suggesting that these expectancies shape attitudes, norms, self-efficacy, and intentions.
- Results indicate that adolescents with higher global positive expectancies tend to use substances less often, likely due to more protective attitudes and a sense of control over their choices.
- The research also supports the idea that global positive expectancies can be considered a second-order factor, which includes components of optimism and two aspects of hope: agency and pathways.