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..The suggestions provided in the current article may help with such a choice...

..Results suggest that SA is a meaningful construct for men and that increasing SA in men may result in subsequent increases in safer sexual behaviors...

..The overriding goal is to provide guidance to researchers, health educators and other interventionists with regard to the important decision of which theory to use as a basis for one's health promotion efforts...

..There has been a dearth of theorizing in the area of multiple behavior change. The purpose of the current article was to examine how health behavior theory might be applied to the growing research terrain of multiple behavior change...

..Implications include achieving a broader understanding of intervention moderators as well as increasing effectiveness trials and translation/dissemination of efficacious interventions to those populations most at risk...

..To conduct a meta-analysis of computer technology-based HIV prevention behavioral interventions aimed at increasing condom use among a variety of at-risk populations...

..e., preexperimental) outcome evaluation designs. Implications of these results for improved design, implementation, and evaluation of HIV/AIDS campaign efforts are discussed...

..g., condom self-efficacy, negotiation strategies). Results varied with regard to main and casual condom stage of change. Implications for developing tailored HIV prevention interventions with heterosexual African-Americans are discussed...

..Since such correlational research cannot demonstrate causality, a number of researchers have called for the increased use of experimental methods for theory testing...

..Given the many advantages of computer-based interventions, including low-cost delivery once developed, they offer much promise for the future of HIV prevention among African-Americans and other at-risk groups...

..Implications of these results are discussed and future directions for research on tailored health messages and interventions are offered...

..Evidence that Web sites were tailoring information or messages to individuals was not found. Implications of these results for improving safer sex Web sites and developing interventions online are discussed...

..The purpose of this study was to compare these constructs and to examine their ability to predict alcohol use and problems...

..It is argued that increased recognition of the similarity of health behavior constructs as well as increased empirical comparisons of theories are essential for true scientific progress in this line of inquiry...

..Such impact can only be achieved, however, if principles of effective campaign design are carefully followed...

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..Implications for the future study of safer sexual communication as well as the importance of emphasizing communication skills in HIV preventive interventions are discussed...

..Specific recommendations are summarized and presented in a way that may be helpful in guiding the development of future measures of self-reported condom use...

..It appears that meta-analysis has only recently been applied to the health communication field in a substantive way, and that its potential for moving the field forward has thus only begun to be realized...

..Results provide support for an MDM that goes beyond traditional social psychological models for a broader understanding of condom use in adolescents. Implications for further theory testing and safer sexual interventions are discussed...

..The authors used quantitative and qualitative methodologies to investigate college students' perceptions and use of illegal Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) stimulants during spring and summer 2006...

..The results suggest that a carefully targeted, intensive mass media campaign using televised PSAs can change safer sexual behaviors...

..These qualitative data have supplied a rich and complex understanding behind nonmedical ADHD stimulant use among fraternity members...

..The evolution of theory should be practice-based, largely ecological in nature, and the resulting theories should be easily accessible to practitioners...

..Quantitative methods were used to investigate the use of nonmedical attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) stimulants by fraternity members...

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..Implications of these results for the design of efficacious HIV prevention interventions are discussed...

..Strategies promoting minority participant recruitment, minimizing attrition, validating participants, and compensating participants are discussed. Throughout, the implications on budget and realistic timetabling are identified...