Protection Motivation Theory

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explanation risk factors, disease symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of the disease. This intervention likely to understand the participants about the disease, and disease prevention by doing physical activity, dietary guidelines, maintaining healthy weight and exercise. Dietary guidelines are mailing to participants understand post interventions question. Post intervention assessment is done by Cambridge Diabetes Center to assess the level of knowledge and standard lifestyle within 15 days. Follow-up assessment is done for participants to take feedback of physical activity.
The protection Motivation Theory denotes severity and vulnerability of the disease (Roger’s 1983). Using protection motivation theory of intervention help to protect from …show more content…

Participants from Canadian diabetes association Registry (N =1,923; recruitment strategy 1), Participants (N =2,319) were recruited from the Canadian Diabetes Association and through a random digit dialing (RDD) protocol (N =396; recruitment strategy 2) during May 2002, limited to members living in the province of Alberta. With recruitment strategy 1, completed questionnaires were obtained from 1,923 individuals (609 type 1; 1,307 type 2; 7 missing diabetes type). The response rate for this sample could not be determined because the association's membership includes an unknown number of friends, family members, healthcare practitioners, and researchers who do not have diabetes. The second recruitment strategy obtained completed questionnaires from 396 of the 600 individuals who agreed to participate in the study (66%: 88 type 1, 307 type 2, and 1 missing diabetes type). Of this group, 206 (52%) were directly contacted in the RDD protocol, whereas 190 (48%) were referred by family/friends in the RDD protocol. Participant recruitment procedure, sample and study response rates are detailed elsewhere (Plotnikoff et.al 2006). However, this is the first study from the dataset to examine the PMT.
SCT statistical data includes identification data of the family to rule out diabetes and other chronic illness with associated health factors to determine diabetes types, height and weight to calculate body mass index (BMI). These censuses are important find patient daily use of insulin or oral antihyperglycaemic medication and early diagnosis and other risk factors such as cardiovascular disaeses (angina, myocardial infarction), cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension, cholesterol level can rule

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