In:
International Quarterly of Community Health Education, SAGE Publications, Vol. 13, No. 4 ( 1993-01), p. 329-363
Abstract:
Community-based approaches to health promotion and disease prevention are often based on underlying theoretical models of behavior change, but evaluations of these programs have not attempted to assess empirically the validity of these models. This article uses data from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Community Health Promotion Grants Program (CHPGP) evaluation to examine a conceptual model which guided the program evaluation. The model posits relationships among six theoretical constructs: community activation, program activity, norms, environment, role models, and health behaviors. Correlational analyses using two waves of survey data were used to examine whether the hypothesized relationships were actually present. Positive cross-sectional associations between the constructs at each point in time were found but the associations between changes in the constructs over time were weak. The stability of these cross-sectional patterns suggests that there may be forces leading communities to have an underlying “consistency”
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0272-684X
,
1541-3519
DOI:
10.2190/GHNY-1JTE-W90Q-68XU
Language:
English
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Publication Date:
1993
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2071491-9
detail.hit.zdb_id:
3128673-2
