Perceived behavioral control as a potential precursor of walking three times a week: Patient's perspectives.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Behavior change theories can identify people's main motivations to engage in recommended health practices and thus provide better tools to design interventions, particularly human centered design interventions.

Objectives

This study had two objectives: (a) to identify salient beliefs about walking three times a week for 30 minutes nonstop among patients with hypertension in a low-resource setting and, (b) to measure the relationships among intentions, attitudes, perceived social pressure and perceived behavioral control about this behavior.

Methods

Face-to-face interviews with 34 people living with hypertension were conducted in September-October 2011 in Lima, Peru, and data analysis was performed in 2015. The Reasoned Action Approach was used to study the

SUBMITTER: Busse P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5815616 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature