Beyond intention: do specific plans increase health behaviours in patients in primary care?: A study of fruit and vegetable consumption

Cath Jackson; Rebecca Lawton; Peter Knapp; David K Raynor; Mark Conner; Catherine Lowe; S José Closs

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.10.014

Beyond intention: do specific plans increase health behaviours in patients in primary care? A study of fruit and vegetable consumption

Cath Jackson, Rebecca Lawton, Peter Knapp, David K Raynor, Mark Conner, Catherine Lowe, S José Closs

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Abstract

Increasing evidence suggests that implementation intentions are effective in moving people towards achieving health behaviour goals. However, the type of health behaviours for which they work best is unclear. Furthermore, implementation intentions appear to be less effective when studied in clinical rather than student populations. This prospective study tested implementation intentions with a complex, repeated health behaviour in a patient sample. A total of 120 cardiac patients in the UK were asked to increase their daily fruit and vegetable consumption by two portions and to maintain this over 3 months. Participants were randomly assigned to three groups (control, Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) questionnaire, TPB questionnaire+implementation intention) and telephoned at 7, 28 and 90 days follow-up to record daily consumption (24-h recall measure); 94 participants completed the study. Daily fruit and vegetable consumption increased from 2.88 portions (SD=1.67) at recruitment to 4.28 portions (SD=2.25) at 90 days. A 4x3 (time by group) mixed design ANCOVA was computed with daily fruit and vegetable consumption at recruitment entered as a covariate. This revealed a significant time effect (F (3, 270)=29.79, p

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2383-91
Number of pages	9
Journal	Social Science & Medicine
Volume	60
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.10.014
Publication status	Published - 2005

Keywords

Female
Fruit
Health Behavior
Health Promotion
Heart Diseases
Humans
Intention
Male
Middle Aged
Nutritional Status
Patient Compliance
Primary Health Care
Questionnaires
Vegetables

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