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| Robert A C RuiterSummaryAffiliation: Maastricht University Country: The Netherlands Publications
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Fear appeals in HIV prevention: the role of anticipated regretChris M R Smerecnik
School for Public Health and Primary Care CAPHRI, Department of Health Promotion, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Psychol Health Med 15:550-9. 2010..Anticipated regret mediated the coping-intention relationship. This finding furthers our understanding of the working mechanisms of fear appeals in HIV prevention...- Intended coping responses to cancer symptoms in healthy adults: the roles of symptom knowledge, detection behavior, and perceived threatRobert A C Ruiter
Department of Work and Social Psychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:818-26. 2008..In addition, we were interested in the extent to which these effects are driven by heightened perceptions of threat... - The role of coping appraisal in reactions to fear appeals: do we need threat information?Robert A C Ruiter
Department of Experimental Psychology, Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands
J Health Psychol 8:465-74. 2003..The results thus suggest that we might do without threatening information in persuading people to adopt health-promoting behaviours... - Strengthening the persuasive impact of fear appeals: the role of action framingRobert A C Ruiter
Department of Experimental Psychology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
J Soc Psychol 143:397-400. 2003 - Increased attention for computer-tailored health communications: an event-related potential studyRobert A C Ruiter
Department of Experimental Psychology, Universiteit Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Health Psychol 25:300-6. 2006..Resource allocation theory and these results suggest that those in the tailored group allocated more attention resources to the nutrition message than those in the nontailored group... - Justify your love: testing an online STI-risk communication intervention designed to promote condom use and STI-testingFraukje E F Mevissen
Department of Work and Social Psychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Psychol Health 26:205-21. 2011.... - Determinants of smoking among adolescents in the Southern Cape-Karoo region, South AfricaSaadhna Panday
Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Health Promot Int 22:207-17. 2007..Although there are more common than unique determinants of smoking among South African adolescents, further research is needed to understand the influence of differing social, economic and cultural contexts on smoking onset... - The effect of graphic organizers on subjective and objective comprehension of a health education textMarieke Kools
Maastricht University, Department of Experimental Psychology, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Health Educ Behav 33:760-72. 2006..It is concluded that health education texts could benefit from relatively simple techniques to increase comprehension. Furthermore, in developing health education materials, comprehension should be measured objectively... - Nicotine dependence and withdrawal symptoms among occasional smokersSaadhna Panday
Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
J Adolesc Health 40:144-50. 2007..This study describes the levels of nicotine dependence, withdrawal symptoms, depressive mood, and risk behavior reported by male and female weekly and monthly adolescent smokers in South Africa... - Increased attention but more efficient disengagement: neuroscientific evidence for defensive processing of threatening health informationLoes T E Kessels
Department of Work and Social Psychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Health Psychol 29:346-54. 2010..The authors investigated whether reduced acceptance of self-relevant health risk information is already visible in early attention processes, that is, attention disengagement processes... - Social-cognitive correlates of risky adolescent cycling behaviorHans Feenstra
Work and Social Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
BMC Public Health 10:408. 2010..This paper proposes the investigation of the social-cognitive correlates of risky cycling behaviors of adolescents prior to developing safety education programs... - The effects of tailored and threatening nutrition information on message attention. Evidence from an event-related potential studyLoes T E Kessels
Department of Work and Social Psychology, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Appetite 56:32-8. 2011..non-tailored messages and to low threat vs. high threat messages. The findings confirm that tailoring is an effective means to draw attention to health messages, whereas threat information seems to result in a loss in message attention... - Avoiding counterproductive results: an experimental pretest of a harm reduction intervention on attitude toward party drugs among users and nonusersJill R D Whittingham
Maastricht University, Faculty of Psychology, Department of Experimental Psychology, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Subst Use Misuse 44:532-47. 2009..The study's limitations and implications are discussed, including the need for experimental pretesting... - Self-efficacy as a potential moderator of the effects of framed health messagesMarieke Q Werrij
Maastricht University, The Netherlands
J Health Psychol 16:199-207. 2011..This study provides further evidence for the role of self-efficacy as a potential moderator of the effects of framed health messages... - Understanding the positive effects of graphical risk information on comprehension: measuring attention directed to written, tabular, and graphical risk informationChris M R Smerecnik
Department of Health Promotion, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Risk Anal 30:1387-98. 2010.... - Testing the usability of access structures in a health education brochureMarieke Kools
Universiteit Maastricht, Department of Experimental Psychology, The Netherlands
Br J Health Psychol 12:525-41. 2007..Effects were assessed of pictorials that flagged references in the brochure text, the use of tabs and colour coding of these pictorials and tabs, on finding information in the brochure... - Designing effective health education materials: experimental pre-testing of a theory-based brochure to increase knowledgeJill R D Whittingham
Department of Work ocial Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
Health Educ Res 23:414-26. 2008..As a result, the authors conclude that principles in cognitive psychology should be complemented by determinant-specific theory-driven change methods if behavior change is to occur... - Testing implicit assumptions and explicit recommendations: the effects of probability information on risk perceptionFraukje E F Mevissen
Department of Work and Social Psychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
J Health Commun 15:578-89. 2010..For HIV, no effects were found. These results contradict implicit assumptions and explicit recommendations concerning the effects of probability information on risk perceptions... - Pictures and text in instructions for medical devices: effects on recall and actual performanceMarieke Kools
Department of Experimental Psychology, Universiteit Maastricht, P O Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
Patient Educ Couns 64:104-11. 2006..From an analysis of the affordances and constraints of both devices this effect was expected to be stronger with the inhaler chamber than with the peak flow meter... - Self-efficacy moderates message-framing effects: The case of skin-cancer detectionJonathan Van 't Riet
School for Public Health and Primary Care CAPHRI, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Psychol Health 25:339-49. 2010..In addition, our results suggest that health promoting messages can be framed to match recipients' self-efficacy levels... - Measuring risky adolescent cycling behaviourHans Feenstra
Department of Work and Social Psychology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Int J Inj Contr Saf Promot 18:181-7. 2011..These three underlying factors were identified as errors, common violations and exceptional violations. The ACBQ is a useful instrument for measuring adolescents' risky cycling behaviour... - HIV/STI risk communication: the effects of scenario-based risk information and frequency-based risk information on perceived susceptibility to chlamydia and HIVFraukje E F Mevissen
Department of Health Promotion, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
J Health Psychol 14:78-87. 2009..No effects on perceived susceptibility for HIV were found. Results are discussed in terms of severity of the disease and defensive reactions... - A study into the psychosocial determinants of perceived forgetfulness: implications for future interventionsMartine E M Mol
Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, European Graduate School of Neuroscience EURON, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Aging Ment Health 12:167-76. 2008..It is argued that future interventions should focus on the specified determinants to improve programme effectiveness in reducing subjective memory complaints... - Motivating blood donors to recruit new donors: experimental evaluation of an evidence-based behavior change interventionKarin P H Lemmens
Department of Work and Social Psychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Health Psychol 29:601-9. 2010..A sustainable, evidence-based intervention to motivate current blood donors to recruit new donors was evaluated using a quasi-experimental, in-service trial at three donation centers... - The effects of warnings and an educational brochure on computer working posture: a test of the C-HIP model in the context of RSI-relevant behaviourVivianne H M Visschers
Universiteit Maastricht, Department of Health Education and Promotion, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Ergonomics 47:1484-98. 2004..The conclusion is that warnings may be able to successfully replace educational brochures to produce behavioural changes... - Increasing readers' comprehension of health education brochures: a qualitative study into how professional writers make texts coherentMarieke Kools
Department of Experimental Psychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Health Educ Behav 31:720-40. 2004..It is argued that the health education profession can benefit greatly from knowledge about cognitive text processing and cognitive coherence principles for realizing effective comprehension of written health education messages... - Intervention mapping: protocol for applying health psychology theory to prevention programmesGerjo Kok
Maastricht University, The Netherlands
J Health Psychol 9:85-98. 2004..This article presents the protocol and elaborates on the application of theory, using examples from successful intervention programmes... - Go fast! Reaction time differences between adults and adolescents in evaluating risky traffic situationsHans Feenstra
Maastricht University, The Netherlands
J Health Psychol 17:343-9. 2012..Both adolescents and adults responded on average 100 ms faster to risky questions than to non-risky questions. The results of this study suggest a possible explanation for the increased accident involvement of adolescents in traffic... - Experimental pretesting of public health campaigns: a case studyJill Whittingham
Department of Work and Social Psychology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
J Health Commun 13:216-29. 2008..Results showed positive effects on targeted determinants of safe sexual behavior. The advantages, practical implications, and limitations of experimental pretesting are discussed... - Planning for influenza vaccination in health care workers: an Intervention Mapping approachGerjo Kok
Work and Social Psychology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Vaccine 29:8512-9. 2011..Examples are provided to illustrate the activities associated with these steps. It is concluded that applying IM in the (influenza) vaccination field may help the development of effective behavior change interventions... - Determinants of smoking cessation among adolescents in South AfricaSaadhna Panday
Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Health Educ Res 20:586-99. 2005..Colored students require the involvement of their social environment, while White students will benefit from the development of refusal skills in social situations... - Emotional reactions toward procedural fairness as a function of negative informationDavid De Cremer
Department of Experimental Psychology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
J Soc Psychol 143:793-5. 2003 - The (ir)relevance of framing nutrition education messagesJohannes Brug
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Nutr Health 17:9-20. 2003..The results of the present studies suggest that action-frame choice has a very limited impact on the effectiveness of nutrition education in changing precautionary motivation... - Factors related to fear in patients undergoing cataract surgery: a qualitative study focusing on factors associated with fear and reassurance among patients who need to undergo cataract surgeryMarjan D Nijkamp
Eye Research Institute Maastricht ERIM, The Netherlands
Patient Educ Couns 47:265-72. 2002.... - Social construction and cultural meanings of STI/HIV-related terminology among Nguni-speaking inmates and warders in four South African correctional facilitiesSibusiso Sifunda
Health Promotion Research evelopment Group, Medical Research Council, Tygerberg 7505, South Africa
Health Educ Res 22:805-14. 2007..The research has biopsychological as well as cultural implications for the development and adaptation of contextually relevant health promotion interventions... - The Impact of an HIV and AIDS Life Skills Program on Secondary School Students in KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaShamagonam James
Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa
AIDS Educ Prev 18:281-94. 2006..These limited effects therefore call for further analysis of the content and implementation strategies used in the classroom... - The effects of a systematically developed photo-novella on knowledge, attitudes, communication and behavioural intentions with respect to sexually transmitted infections among secondary school learners in South AfricaShamagonam James
Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa
Health Promot Int 20:157-65. 2005....