Gaston Godin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3667787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gaston Godin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gaston |
| FAMILY NAME | Godin |
| SIGNATURE | GODIN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Laval |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Varying cognitive targets and response rates to enhance the question-behaviour effect: An 8-arm Randomized Controlled Trial on influenza vaccination uptake
The QBE is a simple, low-cost intervention to increase influenza vaccination rates. Increasing questionnaire return rates or asking anticipated regret or beneficence questions in addition to intention and attitude questions did not enhance the QBE
Validity and reliability of a brief self-reported questionnaire assessing fruit and vegetable consumption among pregnant women
The FVQ has acceptable validity and test-retest reliability values, but seems to underestimate FV servings in pregnant women. It represents an interesting alternative for researchers or clinicians interested in estimating quickly FV intake among pregnant women, such as in large trials or during prenatal visits. The FVQ should however be coupled with other self-reported measures, such as a food record, for assessing precise individual FV intake
The question-behaviour effect: A theoretical and methodological review and meta-analysis
Research has demonstrated that asking people questions about a behaviour can lead to behaviour change. Despite many, varied studies in different domains, it is only recently that this phenomenon has been studied under the umbrella term of the question-behaviour effect (QBE) and moderators of the effect have been investigated. With a particular focus on our own contributions, this article: (1) provides an overview of QBE research; (2) reviews and …
Validity of the Brazilian version of the Godin-Shephard Leisure-Time Physical Activity Questionnaire
This study provides evidence of construct validity for the Brazilian version of the Godin-Shephard Leisure-Time Physical Activity Questionnaire (GSLTPAQ), a 1-item instrument used among 236 participants referred for cardiopulmonary exercise testing. The Baecke Habitual Physical Activity Questionnaire (Baecke-HPA) was used to evaluate convergent and divergent validity. The self-reported measure of walking (QCAF) evaluated the convergent validity. …
Adaptação cultural da versão brasileira do Godin-Shephard Leisure-Time Physical Activity Questionnaire
OBJETIVO: Realizar adaptação cultural para versão brasileira do questionário de atividade física no tempo de lazer e avaliar a validade de conteúdo, praticabilidade, aceitabilidade e confiabilidade.MÉTODOS: Foram realizadas as etapas de tradução, síntese, retrotradução, avaliação por comitê de especialistas e pré-teste, seguidos pela avaliação da praticabilidade, aceitabilidade e confiabilidade (teste-reteste). Os juízes avaliaram as equivalência…
Staying in school for lunch instead of eating in fast-food restaurants: Results of a quasi-experimental study among high-school students
Objective Following the adoption of food policies replacing unhealthy products by healthy foods in school, the present study tested the effectiveness of an intervention aimed at encouraging high-school students to stay in school for lunch instead of eating in fast-food restaurants. Design A 12-week multi-strategy intervention targeting specific determinants of behaviour was evaluated via a quasi-experimental pre- and post-intervention design. A s…
Training family physicians in shared decision making for the use of antibiotics for acute respiratory infections: A pilot clustered randomized controlled trial
Background Experts estimate that the prevalence of antibiotics use exceeds the prevalence of bacterial acute respiratory infections (ARIs). Objective To develop, adapt and validate DECISION+ and estimate its impact on the decision of family physicians (FPs) and their patients on whether to use antibiotics for ARIs. Design Two‐arm parallel clustered pilot randomized controlled trial. Setting and participants Four family medicine groups were random…
Psychosocial determinants of fruit and vegetable intake in adult population: A systematic review
Psychosocial determinants of intention to abstain from drinking alcohol while pregnant among a sample of women of childbearing age
In many countries, not drinking alcohol during pregnancy is strongly recommended, since consuming alcohol can be hazardous for the unborn child. Despite this, a number of women drink alcohol while pregnant. The two objectives of the study were to identify (1) the determinants of intention to abstain from drinking alcohol while pregnant among 167 women of childbearing age between 18 and 44 years and (2) the factors that programmes promoting alcoho…
Effect of Implementation Intentions to Change Behaviour: Moderation by Intention Stability
The aim of this study was to assess the effects of implementation intentions on leisure-time physical activity, taking into account the stability of intention. At baseline (T0), 349 participants completed a psychosocial questionnaire and were randomly assigned to implementation intention or control condition. Three months after baseline assessment (T1), participants in the experimental group were asked to plan where, when, and how they would exer…
Prediction of daily fruit and vegetable consumption among overweight and obese individuals
Psychosocial factors explaining drug users’ intention to use a new syringe at each injection
Beyond the risk of HIV and HVC transmission associated with needle sharing, re-using one's own syringe constitutes an additional risk for injection drug users (IDUs). This practice can lead to serious infections such as cellulitis and endocarditis. In order better to target interventions promoting the adoption of this behaviour, this study attempts to identify factors associated with IDUs’ intention always to use a new syringe. The Theory of Plan…
A Randomized Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy of a Computer-Tailored Intervention to Promote Safer Injection Practices Among Drug Users
Maintenance of a high intention of avoiding initiation into drug injection among street youths: A longitudinal study
The aim of this study was to identify factors associated with the maintenance of a high intention of avoiding initiation into drug injection among street youths. A prospective cohort study of street youths aged 14 to 23 was initiated in Montreal in July 2001. A total of 330 street youths who had never injected drugs and had completed at least one semi-annual follow-up questionnaire were included in the analysis. The prediction of the maintenance …
A Simple Method to Assess Fruit and Vegetable Intake among Obese and Non-obese Individuals
Correlates of Condom Use among Sex Workers and Their Boyfriends in Three West African Countries
Intention to Encourage Complementary and Alternative Medicine Among General Practitioners and Medical Students
The authors' goal was to identify factors explaining intention to encourage a patient to follow complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatment among general practitioners (GPs), fourth-year medical students, and residents in family medicine. They surveyed 500 GPs and 904 medical students via a self-administered mailed questionnaire that they based on the Theory of Planned Behavior. Respondents expressed a neutral level of intention to enc…
Prison Inmates’ Intention to Demand That Bleach Be Used for Cleaning Tattooing and Piercing Equipment
Preventing HIV transmission among marginalized injection drug users: New insights from a Québec City based research
Bridging the intention–behaviour gap: The role of moral norm
This research examined whether intentions aligned with moral norms better predict behaviour compared with intentions aligned with attitudes. Six data sets predicting behaviours in the health domain (smoking, driving over speed limit, applying universal precautions, exercising) were analysed. Moderated regression analysis indicated that participants whose intentions were more aligned with their moral norm were more likely to perform behaviours com…
Psychosocial Determinants of the Intention of Nurses and Dietitians to Recommend Breastfeeding
Factors Associated with Maintenance of Regular Condom Use Among Single Heterosexual Adults: A Longitudinal Study
Young Adults and HIV Vaccine: Determinants of the Intention of Getting Immunized
The Theory of Planned Behavior: A Review of its Applications to Health-Related Behaviors
PURPOSE: To review applications of Ajzen's theory of planned behavior in the domain of health and to verify the efficiency of the theory to explain and predict health-related behaviors. METHODS: Most material has been drawn from Current Contents (Social and Behavioral Sciences and Clinical Medicine) from 1985 to date, together with all peer-reviewed articles cited in the publications thus identified. FINDINGS: The results indicated that the theor…
Psychometric Properties of a Perceived Behavioral Control Multiplicative Scale Developed According to Ajzen's Theory of Planned Behavior
The purpose of this study was to test the psychometric properties of a scale to assess perceived behavioral control developed according to a multiplicative procedure. Based upon Ajzen's theory of planned behavior, belief-based and global measures of perceived behavioral control and intention to continue with the Certificate program in Law until graduation were assessed among a group of 217 students. Analyses indicated that the psychometric proper…
Prediction of daily fruit and vegetable consumption among overweight and obese individuals
A Simple Method to Assess Fruit and Vegetable Intake among Obese and Non-obese Individuals
An application of Ajzen's theory of planned behaviour to predict mothers' intention to use oral rehydration therapy in a rural area of Benin
Prison Inmates’ Intention to Demand That Bleach Be Used for Cleaning Tattooing and Piercing Equipment
Adaptação cultural da versão brasileira do Godin-Shephard Leisure-Time Physical Activity Questionnaire
OBJETIVO: Realizar adaptação cultural para versão brasileira do questionário de atividade física no tempo de lazer e avaliar a validade de conteúdo, praticabilidade, aceitabilidade e confiabilidade.MÉTODOS: Foram realizadas as etapas de tradução, síntese, retrotradução, avaliação por comitê de especialistas e pré-teste, seguidos pela avaliação da praticabilidade, aceitabilidade e confiabilidade (teste-reteste). Os juízes avaliaram as equivalência…
Factors Associated with Maintenance of Regular Condom Use Among Single Heterosexual Adults: A Longitudinal Study
Young Adults and HIV Vaccine: Determinants of the Intention of Getting Immunized
Importance of Type of Attitude to the Study of Exercise-Behavior
The association between intentions to exercise, reported exercise-behavior and two measures of attitudes toward exercise were compared in a sample of 90 subjects, stratified by age (45–54, 55–64, and 65–74 yr.) and sex. The first type of attitude (Aact) corresponds to Fishbein and Ajzen theory of reasoned action, being defined in terms of action, target, context and time elements. The second type, Kenyon's inventory, is more general and evaluates…
Self-Efficacy and Outcome Expectations as Determinants of Exercise Adherence
Based upon Bandura's (1977) theory of self-efficacy, this prospective research concerned the prediction of adherence to exercise in a physical fitness program. Adherence was predicted from expectations of both outcome and self-efficacy measured at the first meeting of a 22-session exercise program (two sessions per week). 98 adults of both sexes participated. After completion of the program, participants were classified as “adherers” or “dropouts…
Importance of the Emotional Aspect of Attitude to Predict Intention
The aim of the present study was to verify the importance of an emotional dimension of attitude to understand intention. The intention to exercise after giving birth was studied among a group of 63 nullipara pregnant women. The variables measured were intention and attitudes. The attitude variable was further operationalized to correspond to both the Fishbein and Ajzen and the Triandis definitions, that is, Aact, Affect, and the cognitive (expect…
An Item-Analytic Investigation of the Fishbein and Ajzen Multiplicative Scale: The Problem of a Simultaneous Negative Evaluation of Belief and Outcome
The purpose was to study the empirical item characteristic curves and the internal structure of the multiplicative scale of the Fishbein and Ajzen paradigm. In previous research, Fishbein and Ajzen derived total scores by means of a belief by outcome cross-product. However, this procedure may bias the meaning of the attitude construct due to the fact that a person can obtain a meaningless score on a particular item by endorsing a negative categor…
Optimism and Health-Relevant Cognitions after a Myocardial Infarction
The relationship between dispositional optimism (LOT) and health-relevant cognitions after a myocardial infarction was examined with 158 patients (mean age = 52.7 +/- 8.1 yr.). Patients above the median on optimism (i.e., optimists) scored significantly lower on perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, and experienced fear than did pessimists. However, no difference on perceived self-efficacy was reported between optimists and pessimists. It…
Understanding Physicians?? Decision to Perform a Clinical Examination on an HIV Seropositive Patient
The main purpose of this study was to identify the psychosocial factors explaining a physician's decision to perform a clinical (physical) examination of an HIV seropositive patient. Eight hundred seventy-nine physicians completed a questionnaire investigating psychosocial variables derived from the theories of Ajzen and Triandis. The mean intention to perform a clinical examination was quite positive (5.4 on a 7-point scale). The regression of i…
Psychometric Properties of a Perceived Behavioral Control Multiplicative Scale Developed According to Ajzen's Theory of Planned Behavior
The purpose of this study was to test the psychometric properties of a scale to assess perceived behavioral control developed according to a multiplicative procedure. Based upon Ajzen's theory of planned behavior, belief-based and global measures of perceived behavioral control and intention to continue with the Certificate program in Law until graduation were assessed among a group of 217 students. Analyses indicated that the psychometric proper…
An application of Ajzen's theory of planned behaviour to predict mothers' intention to use oral rehydration therapy in a rural area of Benin
The Theory of Planned Behavior: A Review of its Applications to Health-Related Behaviors
PURPOSE: To review applications of Ajzen's theory of planned behavior in the domain of health and to verify the efficiency of the theory to explain and predict health-related behaviors. METHODS: Most material has been drawn from Current Contents (Social and Behavioral Sciences and Clinical Medicine) from 1985 to date, together with all peer-reviewed articles cited in the publications thus identified. FINDINGS: The results indicated that the theor…
Young Adults and HIV Vaccine: Determinants of the Intention of Getting Immunized
Factors Associated with Maintenance of Regular Condom Use Among Single Heterosexual Adults: A Longitudinal Study
Psychosocial Determinants of the Intention of Nurses and Dietitians to Recommend Breastfeeding
Bridging the intention–behaviour gap: The role of moral norm
This research examined whether intentions aligned with moral norms better predict behaviour compared with intentions aligned with attitudes. Six data sets predicting behaviours in the health domain (smoking, driving over speed limit, applying universal precautions, exercising) were analysed. Moderated regression analysis indicated that participants whose intentions were more aligned with their moral norm were more likely to perform behaviours com…
Preventing HIV transmission among marginalized injection drug users: New insights from a Québec City based research
Correlates of Condom Use among Sex Workers and Their Boyfriends in Three West African Countries
Intention to Encourage Complementary and Alternative Medicine Among General Practitioners and Medical Students
The authors' goal was to identify factors explaining intention to encourage a patient to follow complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatment among general practitioners (GPs), fourth-year medical students, and residents in family medicine. They surveyed 500 GPs and 904 medical students via a self-administered mailed questionnaire that they based on the Theory of Planned Behavior. Respondents expressed a neutral level of intention to enc…
Prison Inmates’ Intention to Demand That Bleach Be Used for Cleaning Tattooing and Piercing Equipment
Maintenance of a high intention of avoiding initiation into drug injection among street youths: A longitudinal study
The aim of this study was to identify factors associated with the maintenance of a high intention of avoiding initiation into drug injection among street youths. A prospective cohort study of street youths aged 14 to 23 was initiated in Montreal in July 2001. A total of 330 street youths who had never injected drugs and had completed at least one semi-annual follow-up questionnaire were included in the analysis. The prediction of the maintenance …
A Simple Method to Assess Fruit and Vegetable Intake among Obese and Non-obese Individuals
Psychosocial factors explaining drug users’ intention to use a new syringe at each injection
Beyond the risk of HIV and HVC transmission associated with needle sharing, re-using one's own syringe constitutes an additional risk for injection drug users (IDUs). This practice can lead to serious infections such as cellulitis and endocarditis. In order better to target interventions promoting the adoption of this behaviour, this study attempts to identify factors associated with IDUs’ intention always to use a new syringe. The Theory of Plan…
A Randomized Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy of a Computer-Tailored Intervention to Promote Safer Injection Practices Among Drug Users
Psychosocial determinants of fruit and vegetable intake in adult population: A systematic review
Psychosocial determinants of intention to abstain from drinking alcohol while pregnant among a sample of women of childbearing age
In many countries, not drinking alcohol during pregnancy is strongly recommended, since consuming alcohol can be hazardous for the unborn child. Despite this, a number of women drink alcohol while pregnant. The two objectives of the study were to identify (1) the determinants of intention to abstain from drinking alcohol while pregnant among 167 women of childbearing age between 18 and 44 years and (2) the factors that programmes promoting alcoho…
Effect of Implementation Intentions to Change Behaviour: Moderation by Intention Stability
The aim of this study was to assess the effects of implementation intentions on leisure-time physical activity, taking into account the stability of intention. At baseline (T0), 349 participants completed a psychosocial questionnaire and were randomly assigned to implementation intention or control condition. Three months after baseline assessment (T1), participants in the experimental group were asked to plan where, when, and how they would exer…
Prediction of daily fruit and vegetable consumption among overweight and obese individuals
Psychology (26 works) · Medicine (23 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (14 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Psychiatry (12 works) · Family medicine (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Environmental health (9 works) · Theory of planned behavior (9 works)