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Can genetic risk information enhance motivation for smoking cessation? An analogue study.
Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association - 1 Nov 2006
Wright Alison J, French David P, Weinman John, Marteau Theresa M
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Protection motivation theory and the extended parallel processing model are used to predict the motivational impact of information regarding a genetic susceptibility to heart disease. One hundred ninety-eight smokers read 1 of 3 vignettes: gene positive, gene negative, or standard smoking risk information. Analyses examined whether the impact of type of risk information was moderated by smokers' self-efficacy...
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