Health Psychology Research / HPR / Volume 8 / Issue 2 / DOI: 10.4081/​hpr.2020.9235
GENERAL

Assessment tools for risky behaviors: Psychology and health

Sabrina Castellano1 Giuseppe Alessio Platania1* Simone Varrasi1 Concetta Pirrone1 Santo Di Nuovo1
Show Less
1 Department of Educational Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Submitted: 8 July 2020 | Published: 5 October 2020
© 2020 by the Author(s). Licensee Health Psychology Research, USA. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Keywords
Assessment
risky behaviors
diagnosis
References

1. Brener, N.D., Billy, J.O., & Grady, W.R. (2003). Assessment of factors affecting the validity of self-reported health-risk behavior among adolescents: evidence from the scientific literature. The Journal of adolescent health: official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 33 (6), 436–457. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1054-139x(03)00052-1
2. Caponnetto, P., & Milazzo, M. (2019). Cyber Health Psychology: The use of new technologies at the service of psychological well being and health empowerment. Health psychology research, 7(2), 8559. https://doi.org/10.4081/hpr.2019.8559
3. De Greef, K., Deforche, B., Tudor-Locke, C., & De Bourdeaudhuij, I. (2010). A cognitive-behavioural pedometer-based group intervention on physical activity and sedentary behaviour in individuals with type 2 diabetes. Health education research, 25(5), 724–736. https://doi.org/10.1093/her/cyq017
4. Derogatis, L. (2011). Manuale di somministrazione e scoring. Adattamento italiano di SCL-90-R (I. Sarno, E. Preti, A. Prunas, & F. Madeddu, a cura di). Firenze: Giunti, Organizzazioni Speciali.
5. Fishbein, M., & Ajzen, I. (1975). Belief, Attitude, Intention, and Behavior: An Introduction to Theory and Research. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
6. Kong, F., & Tan, J. (2012). DietCam: Automatic dietary assessment with mobile camera phones. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 8 (1), 147-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmcj.2011.07.003
7. Leriche, R. quoted in G. Canguilhem (1991). On the Normal and the Pathological. New York: Zone Books.
8. Luszczynska, A., & Hagger, M. (2016). Health Behavior. In Y. Benyamini, M. Johnston & E. C. Karademas (Eds.) Assessment in Health Psychology. Hogrefe & Huber Pub. 
9. Menon, G. (1994). Judgments of behavioral frequencies: Memory search and retrieval strategies. In N. Schwarts & S. Sudman (Eds.) Autobiographical memory and the validity of the retrospective reports (pp. 161-172). New York, NY: Springer.
10. Morabia, A., Bernstein, M. S., Curtin, F., & Berode, M. (2001). Validation of self-reported smoking status by simultaneous measurement of carbon monoxide and salivary thiocyanate. Preventive Medicine, 32, 82-88. http://doi.org/10.1006/pmed.2000.0779
11. Ortis, A., Caponnetto, P., Polosa, R., Urso, S., & Battiato, S. (2020). A Report on Smoking Detection and Quitting Technologies. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17(7), 2614. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072614
12. Natarajan, L., Flatt, S.W., Sun, X., Gamst, A.C., Major, J.M., Rock, C.L., Al-Delaimy, W., Thomson, C.A., Newman, V.A., Pierce, J.P., & Women’s Healthy Eating and Living Study Group (2006). Validity and systematic error in measuring carotenoid consumption with dietary self-report instruments. American journal of epidemiology, 163(8), 770–778. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwj082
13. Simmons, S.F., & Reuben, D. (2000). Nutritional Intake Monitoring for Nursing Home Residents: A Comparison of Staff Documentation, Direct Observation, and Photography Methods. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 48 (2), 209–213. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.2000.tb03914.x
14. Sobell, L.C., Sobell, M.B., Buchan, G., Cleland, P.A., Fedoroff, I., & Leo, G.I. (1996). The reliability of the Timeline Followback method applied to drug, cigarette, and cannabis use. Paper presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New York, NY, November 1996.
15. Trimpop, R.M. (1994). The Psychology of Risk Taking Behaviour. North Holland, Amsterdam, The Nederlands.

Conflict of interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Share
Back to top
Health Psychology Research, Electronic ISSN: 2420-8124 Published by Health Psychology Research