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| Amy E LatimerSummaryAffiliation: Queen's University Country: Canada Publications
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Motivating cancer prevention and early detection behaviors using psychologically tailored messagesAmy E Latimer
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8205, USA
J Health Commun 10:137-55. 2005..This line of research provides evidence for the utility of psychological tailoring as a health communication strategy and direction for developing effective health messages in a variety of settings...- Physical activity guides for Canadians: messaging strategies, realistic expectations for change, and evaluationLawrence R Brawley
College of Kinesiology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Can J Public Health 98:S170-84. 2007..These messages should be disseminated to the public via a multi-phase social-marketing campaign that is carefully planned and thoroughly evaluated... 
How do perceptions about cessation outcomes moderate the effectiveness of a gain-framed smoking cessation telephone counseling intervention?Amy E Latimer-Cheung
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
J Health Commun 17:1081-98. 2012..These findings suggest that it may be useful to consider sex and individual differences in outcome expectancies when delivering gain-framed smoking cessation messages in the context of a state quitline...
The identification of framed messages in the New York State Smokers' Quitline materialsAmy E Latimer
School of Kinesiology ealth Studies, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
Health Educ Res 25:54-60. 2010..1% were non-framed. The loss-framed and non-framed messages indicate missed opportunities for providing gain-framed messages within the Quitline services, thus emphasizing a possible gap between research and practice...- A systematic review of three approaches for constructing physical activity messages: What messages work and what improvements are needed?Amy E Latimer
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 7:36. 2010..abstract:.. - Targeted smoking cessation messages for adolescentsAmy E Latimer
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
J Adolesc Health 50:47-53. 2012..To develop and to conduct a preliminary evaluation of smoking cessation messages targeted for adolescents... - Promoting participation in physical activity using framed messages: an application of prospect theoryAmy E Latimer
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Br J Health Psychol 13:659-81. 2008..We compared the effectiveness of gain-, loss-, and mixed-framed messages for promoting moderate to vigorous physical activity... - The effectiveness of gain-framed messages for encouraging disease prevention behavior: is all hope lost?Amy E Latimer
Queen s University, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
J Health Commun 12:645-9. 2007..We suggest that the future of message framing is promising with newly emerging approaches to increasing message effectiveness... - Promoting fruit and vegetable intake through messages tailored to individual differences in regulatory focusAmy E Latimer
Department of Psychology, Yale University, P O Box 208205, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Ann Behav Med 35:363-9. 2008..Researchers must identify strategies to optimize the persuasiveness of messages used in public education campaigns encouraging fruit and vegetable (FV) intake... - Leisure time physical activity in a population-based sample of people with spinal cord injury part II: activity types, intensities, and durationsKathleen A Martin Ginis
Department of Kinesiology, Centre for Health Promotion and Rehabilitation, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 91:729-33. 2010..To describe the types, intensities, and average duration of leisure time physical activities (LTPAs) performed by people with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI)... - Leisure time physical activity in a population-based sample of people with spinal cord injury part I: demographic and injury-related correlatesKathleen A Martin Ginis
Department of Kinesiology, Centre for Health Promotion and Rehabilitation, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 91:722-8. 2010.... - Nicotine dependence as a moderator of a quitline-based message framing interventionLisa M Fucito
Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 114:229-32. 2011.... - Examining predictors of physical activity among inactive middle-aged women: an application of the health action process approachCarolyn J Barg
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Psychol Health 27:829-45. 2012..Overall, HAPA provides a useful framework for identifying determinants of physical activity intentions and behaviour within a group of inactive, middle-aged women... - Tailoring messages to individual differences in monitoring-blunting styles to increase fruit and vegetable intakePamela Williams-Piehota
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
J Nutr Educ Behav 41:398-405. 2009..MBCS refers to the tendency to either attend to and amplify, or distract oneself from and minimize threatening information... - Reliability and validity tests of the leisure time physical activity questionnaire for people with spinal cord injuryKathleen A Martin Ginis
Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 93:677-82. 2012.... - Determinants of physical activity among people with spinal cord injury: a test of social cognitive theoryKathleen A Martin Ginis
Department of Kinesiology, Centre for Health Promotion and Rehabilitation, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Ann Behav Med 42:127-33. 2011..Testing a social cognitive theory-based model of determinants is important for identifying variables to target in physical activity-enhancing interventions... - Nicotine dependence as a moderator of message framing effects on smoking cessation outcomesLisa M Fucito
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Ann Behav Med 39:311-7. 2010..Nicotine dependence as a potential moderator of message framing effects on actual smoking outcomes among treatment-seeking smokers remains to be determined... - Formative research for a community-based message-framing interventionJosefa L Martinez
Health, Emotion, and Behavior Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Am J Health Behav 36:335-47. 2012..To inform a community-based message framing intervention encouraging physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption among medically underserved adults... - Moving beyond the stigma: the impression formation benefits of exercise for individuals with a physical disabilityKelly P Arbour
Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Adapt Phys Activ Q 24:144-59. 2007..Evidently, the exerciser stereotype may undermine negative impressions of people with physical disabilities... - Effects of a print-mediated intervention on physical activity during transition to the first year of universitySteven R Bray
Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Behav Med 37:60-9. 2011..A theory-driven and targeted print media intervention can offer low-cost and broad-reaching effects that may help students stay more active or curb declining levels of MVPA that occur during transition to university... - Exercise as stigma management for individuals with onset-controllable and onset-uncontrollable spinal cord injuryAshley C Tyrrell
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Physical Education Centre, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Rehabil Psychol 55:383-90. 2010..Studies have suggested that individuals with physical disabilities are often stigmatized and are perceived to possess less favorable physical and psychological characteristics than individuals without disability... - Increased participation in activities of daily living is associated with lower cholesterol levels in people with spinal cord injurySamuel P Hetz
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 90:1755-9. 2009..Hetz SP, Latimer AE, Martin Ginis KA, Buchholz AC, and the SHAPE-SCI Research Group. Increased participation in activities of daily living is associated with lower cholesterol levels in people with spinal cord injury... - Weight training to activities of daily living: helping older adults make a connectionKathleen A Martin Ginis
Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Med Sci Sports Exerc 38:116-21. 2006.... - Physical activity guidelines and guides for Canadians: facts and futureMark S Tremblay
Children s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Can J Public Health 98:S218-24. 2007..Recommendations on how to proceed are based on the evidence base provided by this series of papers; the immediate next steps mandated by this initiative are outlined and priorities for future research are indicated... - Change in self-efficacy following a single strength training session predicts sedentary older adults' subsequent motivation to join a strength training programAmy E Latimer
Centre for Health Promotion and Rehabilitation, Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Am J Health Promot 20:135-8. 2005..Practitioners could increase strength training initiation by providing such experiences... - Targeting or tailoring?Kristina L Schmid
Department of Psychology, Yale University, USA
Mark Health Serv 28:32-7. 2008 - Testing messages to encourage discussion of clinical trials among cancer survivors and their physicians: examining monitoring style and message detailLindsay R Duncan
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
J Cancer Educ 28:119-26. 2013..These findings imply that providing extremely detailed information may be excessive, even to individuals engaged in information seeking behavior... - Risky business: risk information and the moderating effect of message frame and past behaviour on women's perceptions of the Human Papillomavirus vaccineHeather L Gainforth
Queen s University, Kingston, Canada
J Health Psychol 17:896-905; quiz 905-6. 2012..The deleterious effects of risk information on specific aspects of women's coping appraisal may be mitigated by appropriately framed messages... - The physical activity recall assessment for people with spinal cord injury: validityAmy E Latimer
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Med Sci Sports Exerc 38:208-16. 2006..These results also highlight measurement constraints of the lifestyle activity and cumulative activity categories...