Author(s): Hayashi D; Carvalho SDL; Ribeiro PAB; Rodrigues RCM; São-João TM; Lavoie K; Bacon S; Cornélio ME;

Background: Ambivalence towards food and diet, which favours behavioural inertia, might be a barrier to adopting healthier eating behaviours. Measuring it can help researchers to better understand its relationship with behaviour change and design interventions aimed at resolving it. In this scopi ...

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Author(s): Gosselin Boucher V; Bacon S; Voisard B; Dragomir AI; Gemme C; Larue F; Labbé S; Szczepanik G; Corace K; Campbell T; Vallis M; Garber G; Rouleau C; Diodati JG; Rabi D; Sultan S; Lavoie K;

Background: Training physicians to provide effective behavior change counseling using approaches such as motivational communication (MC) is an important aspect of noncommunicable chronic disease prevention and management. However, existing evaluation tools for MC skills are complex, invasive, tim ...

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Author(s): Lavoie K; Gosselin-Boucher V; Stojanovic J; Gupta S; Gagné M; Joyal-Desmarais K; Séguin K; Gorin SS; Ribeiro P; Voisard B; Vallis M; Corace K; Presseau J; Bacon S;

Objective: To examine rates of vaccine hesitancy and their correlates among Canadian adults between April 2020 and March 2021. Design: Five sequential cross-sectional age, sex and province-weighted population-based samples who completed online surveys. Setting: Canada. Participants: A total of ...

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Author(s): Vallis M; Bacon S; Corace K; Joyal-Desmarais K; Sheinfeld Gorin S; Paduano S; Presseau J; Rash J; Mengistu Yohannes A; Lavoie K;

Governments, public health officials and pharmaceutical companies have all mobilized resources to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Lockdowns, social distancing, and personal protective behaviours have been helpful but have shut down economies and disrupted normal activities. Vaccinations protect po ...

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Author(s): van Allen Z; Bacon SL; Bernard P; Brown H; Desroches S; Kastner M; Lavoie K; Marques M; McCleary N; Straus S; Taljaard M; Thavorn K; Tomasone JR; Presseau J;

<strong>Background:</strong> Health behaviors such as physical inactivity, unhealthy eating, smoking tobacco, and alcohol use are leading risk factors for noncommunicable chronic diseases and play a central role in limiting health and life satisfaction. To date, however, health behavi ...

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