Lifetime prevalence of questionable health behaviors and their psychological roots: A preregistered nationally representative survey.

ABSTRACT: A growing body of evidence suggests that questionable health behaviors- not following medical recommendations and resorting to non-evidence based treatments-are more frequent than previously thought, and that they seem to have strong psychological roots. We thus aimed to: 1) document the lifetime prevalence of intentional non-adherence to medical recommendations (iNAR) and use of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM) in Serbia and 2) understand how they relate to 'distal' psychological factors-personality traits and thinking dispositions, and 'proximal' factors-a set of beliefs and cognitive biases under the term 'irrational mindset'. In this preregistered cross-sectional study on a nationally representative sample (N = 1003), we observed high lifetime prevalence of iN

SUBMITTER: Knezevic G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11540216 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature