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Experimental Evidence for
Stages of Health Behavior Change:
The Precaution Adoption Process Model
Applied to Home Radon Testing
By Neil D. Weinstein, Judith E. Lyon, Peter M. Sandman, and Cara L. Cuite
Health Psychology, 1998, Vol 17. No. 5, pp. 445-453.

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Hypotheses generated by the precaution adoption process model, a stage model of health behavior, were tested in the context of home radon testing. The specific idea tested was that the barriers impeding progress toward protective action change from stage to stage. An intervention describing a high risk of radon problems in study area homes was designed to encourage homeowners in the model's undecided stage to decide to test, and a low-effort, how-to-test intervention was designed to encourage homeowners in the decided -to-act stage to order test kits. Interventions were delivered in a factorial design that created conditions matched......

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Title: Precaution Adoption Process Model
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Approximate Pages: 34 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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