Participating in Health Issue-Specific Social Networking Sites to Quit Smoking: How Does Online Social Interconnectedness Influence Smoking Cessation Self-Efficacy?

2013 ◽  
Vol 63 (5) ◽  
pp. 933-952 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Phua
Keyword(s):  
Smoking Cessation ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Health Issue ◽  
Quit Smoking

scholarly journals Quitting smoking using health issue-specific Social Networking Sites (SNSs): What influences participation, social identification, and smoking cessation self-efficacy?

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Phua
Keyword(s):  
Smoking Cessation ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Social Identification ◽  
Health Issue ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Physical Intimacy

Introduction: This study examined members of health issue-specific social networking sites (SNSs) for smoking cessation, applying Social Identity Theory (SIT).Aims: The aim of the study was to test the relationships between perceived verbal, affective, cognitive and physical intimacy on the sites, participation level, social identification and smoking cessation self-efficacy.Methods: An online questionnaire (N = 252) assessed members of SNSs for smoking cessation. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), structural equation modelling (SEM), mediation analysis, MANOVA and ANOVA tests were used to test the hypotheses.Results/Findings: Verbal, affective, cognitive and physical intimacy significantly predicted participation; participation significantly predicted social identification and smoking cessation self-efficacy; and social identification mediated between participation and smoking cessation self-efficacy. Active participants and lurkers differed significantly on perceived verbal, affective, cognitive and physical intimacy, social identification, and smoking cessation self-efficacy.Conclusions: Health issue-specific SNSs for smoking cessation have a positive impact on members’ smoking cessation self-efficacy. Higher perceived intimacy facilitates participation online, which in turn influences smoking cessation self-efficacy, with social identification mediating this relationship.

scholarly journals Perceived Pain and Smoking Interrelations and Expectancies Are Associated With Pain and Smoking Cessation in Individuals With Mobility Impairments

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Romano Endrighi ◽  
Nicolle Rueras ◽  
Shira I Dunsiger ◽  
Belinda Borrelli
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Smoking Cessation ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Smoking Behavior ◽  
Lower Probability ◽  
Smoking Abstinence ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Mobility Impairments ◽  
Quit Smoking ◽  
Perceived Pain

Abstract Introduction Smoking and pain are highly prevalent among individuals with mobility impairments (MIs; use assistive devices to ambulate). The role of pain-related smoking motives and expectancies in smoking cessation is unknown. We examined cross-sectional and prospective associations between a novel measure of pain-related smoking motives (how smokers with pain perceive their pain and smoking to be interrelated) and pain and smoking behavior in smokers with MI. Methods This is a secondary data analysis of a smoking cessation induction trial (N = 263; 55% female) in smokers with MI. Participants did not have to want to quit to enroll. Pain-related smoking motives and expectancies were assessed at baseline with the pain and smoking inventory (PSI) which measures perceived pain and smoking interrelations in three distinct but related domains (smoking to cope with pain, pain as a motivator of smoking and as a barrier to cessation). Other measures included pain occurrence and interference, nicotine dependence, motivation and self-efficacy to quit smoking, and number of cigarettes per day. Biochemically verified smoking abstinence was assessed at 6 months. Results PSI scores were significantly higher among smokers with chronic pain occurrence compared to occasional and to no occurrence (p < .002) and were associated with greater pain interference (ps < .01) and lower self-efficacy to quit smoking (ps < .01). In prospective analyses adjusted for age, treatment group, and chronic pain, only expectancies of smoking to help cope with pain predicted lower odds of abstinence. Conclusions Targeting expectancies of smoking as a mechanism to cope with pain may be useful in increasing smoking cessation in pain populations. Implications Individuals with MI have a high prevalence of smoking and pain, yet the extent to which this population perceives pain and smoking to be interrelated is unknown. This is the first article to examine prospective associations between a novel measure of perceived pain and smoking interrelations (PSI) and smoking outcomes. The PSI was associated with greater pain and lower self-efficacy for quitting. Prospectively, the PSI subscale tapping into expectancies that smoking help coping with pain predicted a lower probability of smoking abstinence. In smokers with MI, expectancies of smoking as pain-coping mechanism may be an important clinical target.

Smoking Among Participants in the Childhood Cancer Survivors Cohort: The Partnership for Health Study

2003 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen M. Emmons ◽  
Rita M. Butterfield ◽  
Elaine Puleo ◽  
Elyse R. Park ◽  
Ann Mertens ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Smoking Cessation ◽  
Cancer Survivors ◽  
Childhood Cancer ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Childhood Cancer Survivors ◽  
Smoking Rate ◽  
Quit Smoking ◽  
Quit Attempts ◽  
Smoking Behaviors ◽  
Readiness To Quit

Purpose: This article describes baseline data collection and the intervention design of Partnership for Health, a smoking cessation intervention for smokers in the Childhood Cancer Survivors Study. The purpose of this article is to evaluate demographic, psychosocial, and cancer-related factors that are associated with smoking behavior and mediators of smoking cessation. Patients and Methods: This study includes 796 smokers from the Childhood Cancer Survivors Study database who were diagnosed with cancer before the age of 21, had survived at least 5 years, and were at least 18 years of age at the time of the baseline survey. Correlates of smoking behaviors included smoking rate, number of recent quit attempts, and nicotine dependence; two key mediators of smoking cessation, readiness to quit smoking and self-efficacy, were also assessed. Results: Participants smoked, on average, 14 cigarettes/day; 53.2% were nicotine dependent, and 58% had made at least one quit attempt in the past year. Smoking behaviors were primarily associated with demographic variables; mediators of cessation were primarily associated with age at cancer diagnosis and perceived vulnerability to smoking-related illnesses. Severity of psychologic symptoms was associated with increased smoking rate, high nicotine dependence, and low self-efficacy. Support for quitting was related to smoking rate, number of quit attempts, readiness to quit smoking, and self-efficacy. Conclusion: These findings indicate that many cancer survivors who smoke are receptive to smoking cessation interventions. Factors related to mediators of smoking cessation might be particularly good targets for intervention.

scholarly journals Linking Green and Sustainable Entrepreneurial Intentions and Social Networking Sites; The Mediating Role of Self-Efficacy and Risk Propensity

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7050
Author(s):  
Iftikhar Hussain ◽  
Mehrab Nazir ◽  
Saadia Bano Hashmi ◽  
Imrab Shaheen ◽  
Sabahat Akram ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Risk Propensity ◽  
Sustainable Entrepreneurship ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Impact

This study investigated the impact of the use of social networking sites on university graduate students’ green sustainable entrepreneurial intentions by developing a mediating effect. This study provided a research framework using Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior and Shapero’s model to illustrate the relationship between self-efficacy and risk propensity towards green and sustainable entrepreneurial intentions. This research model posited a relationship between the use of social networking sites and green and sustainable entrepreneurship intentions with a mediating role of risk propensity and self-efficacy. The structural questionnaire was adopted, validated, and disseminated to the 300 respondents of university students. This study’s findings confirmed that there was a significant positive effect of the use of social networking sites on green and sustainable entrepreneurship intentions with the indirect impact of risk propensity and self-efficacy. These substantial outcomes have essential practices and academic implications for representatives, policy makers, and entrepreneurial institutes, such as how to direct the use of such relative niche technologies for communication and the role of the internet to promote green and sustainable entrepreneurial practices among young people.

scholarly journals The study of the impact factors of behaviors of nursing intern students: PRECEDE-based structural equation modeling analysis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Zhang ◽  
Yetao Luo ◽  
Yanhan Chen
Keyword(s):  
Smoking Cessation ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Tobacco Cessation ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Quit Smoking ◽  
Tobacco Cessation Education ◽  
The Impact

Abstract BackgroundTobacco hazard is known as one of the most critical public health problems. Nurses could and should help patients to quit smoking. However, the lack of tobacco cessation education of nurses at medical school leads to the absence of behaviors helping smokers to quit. The analysis of the factors that influencing the nursing interns to help smokers to quit provide evidence for nursing school to administer tobacco cessation education to facilitate more behaviors of smoking cessation in future nurses.ObjectTo explore the interaction and the effect coefficient among the influencing factors of the 5As behaviors of nursing interns in helping smokers to quit provide and to provide evidences for the tobacco cessation education. Method: Based on the PRECEDE theory, a questionnaire was developed with consideration of predisposing factor, enabling factor and reinforcing factor. Random Cluster Sampling was used to conduct a survey in 13 teaching hospitals selected from 29 in Chongqing to assess the 5As behaviors of all nursing interns. A structural equation model was established to test the path and effect coefficient of their 5As behaviors.ResultsThe survey investigated 1358 nurses, and the model fitted well with the data. The tobacco cessation education, one of the enabling factors, imposed max effect on the 5As of nursing interns directly（β=0.542，p<0.001） and indirectly（β=0.38，p<0.001）through self-efficacy. The reinforcing factors ( smoking cessation environment) imposed direct effect（β=0.305，p<0.001）and indirect effect on the 5As of nursing interns through attitude changes. Predisposing factors including self-efficacy influenced the 5As directly, while attitude（β=0.001，p<0.05）and knowledge（β=0.008，p<0.05）of tobacco cessation implied indirect influence on the 5As through self-efficacy change. ConclusionTobacco cessation education was the major factor that influenced the nursing interns’ behaviors of helping patients to quit smoking. Enhanced responsibility of smoking cessation education and skills training of clinical teachers can prompt them to actively help patients to quit smoking, actively instruct students the knowledge and skills of smoking quit to increase students' behavior of helping smokers to quit.

scholarly journals Green and Sustainable Entrepreneurial Intentions: A Mediation-Moderation Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8627
Author(s):  
Iftikhar Hussain ◽  
Mehrab Nazir ◽  
Saadia Bano Hashmi ◽  
Assunta Di Vaio ◽  
Imrab Shaheen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Subjective Norms ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Risk Propensity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Green Entrepreneurship ◽  
Mediation Moderation ◽  
Self Administered Questionnaire

This research was aimed to investigate the connection between the social networking sites and green entrepreneurship intentions through a mediated-moderated model. The study was based on the Shepero’s model of entrepreneurship intentions and Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior. The study design reflects that social networking sites and green entrepreneurship intentions are mediated by risk propensity and self-efficacy, while self-efficacy and green entrepreneurship intentions’ relationship is further moderated by subjective norms. A well-structured and self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data from 500 respondents. The data were analyzed, and hypotheses were tested using PLS-SEM. The study findings confirmed that there exists a positive and significant link between social networking sites and green entrepreneurship intentions through the indirect effect of risk propensity and self-efficacy. However, the findings regarding moderating effect indicated that subjective norms have no significant impact between the self-efficacy and green entrepreneurship intentions. The study findings have significant academic and practical implications for government representatives, policymakers, and entrepreneurial educational institutes that can use these findings.

scholarly journals The Study of the Impact Factors of Behaviors of Nursing Intern Students: PRECEDE-Based Structural Equation Modeling Analysis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Zhang ◽  
Yetao Luo ◽  
Yanhan Chen
Keyword(s):  
Smoking Cessation ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Tobacco Cessation ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Quit Smoking ◽  
Tobacco Cessation Education ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background: Tobacco hazard is known as one of the most critical public health problems. Nurses could and should help patients to quit smoking. However, the lack of tobacco cessation education of nurses at medical school leads to the absence of behaviors helping smokers to quit. The analysis of the factors that influencing the nursing interns to help smokers to quit provide evidence for nursing school to administer tobacco cessation education to facilitate more behaviors of smoking cessation in future nurses.Method: To explore the interaction and the effect coefficient among the influencing factors of the 5As behaviors of nursing interns in helping smokers to quit provide and to provide evidences for the tobacco cessation education, a questionnaire based on the PRECEDE theory was developed with consideration of predisposing factor, enabling factor and reinforcing factor. Random Cluster Sampling was used to conduct a survey in 13 teaching hospitals selected from 29 in Chongqing to assess the 5As behaviors of all nursing interns. A structural equation model was established to test the path and effect coefficient of their 5As behaviors.Results: The survey investigated 1358 nurses, and the model fitted well with the data. The tobacco cessation education, one of the enabling factors, imposed max effect on the 5As of nursing interns directly（β=0.542，p<0.001） and indirectly（β=0.38，p<0.001）through self-efficacy. The reinforcing factors ( smoking cessation environment) imposed direct effect (β=0.305，p<0.001）and indirect effect on the 5As of nursing interns through attitude changes. Predisposing factors including self-efficacy influenced the 5As directly, while attitude（β=0.001，p<0.05）and knowledge（β=0.008，p<0.05）of tobacco cessation implied indirect influence on the 5As through self-efficacy change. Conclusion: Tobacco cessation education was the major factor that influenced the nursing interns’ behaviors of helping patients to quit smoking. Enhanced responsibility of smoking cessation education and skills training of clinical teachers can prompt them to actively help patients to quit smoking, actively instruct students the knowledge and skills of smoking quit to increase students' behavior of helping smokers to quit.

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