-transparent.png){kind=logo}
BACKGROUND The Health Attitude Inventory (HAI) is developed to assess attitudes, beliefs and values towards coronary-related behaviour in epidemiological studies. It comprises a 76-item self-administered questionnaire which can be completed in under 10 minutes by most adults. METHODS The HAI was administered to 2100 men aged 50-64 years along with measures of ischaemic heart disease risk factors, including the following coronary-related behaviours: smoking, exercise, type A behaviour and the consumption of fried food, dairy produce, wholemeal bread and vegetables. RESULTS Cross-sectional analyses using linear regression showed attitudes, beliefs and values to explain between 8% and 27% of the variance in the dietary coronary-related behaviour. For exercise 13% of the variance was explained, and for type A behaviour 18%. Similar analysis for smoking using logistic regression (non-smoker versus current smoker) showed a predictive concordance of 95%. CONCLUSIONS The HAI has demonstrated the assessment of attitudes, beliefs and values in an epidemiological setting to show associations with a range of coronary risk behaviours. This finding has potential public health as well as aetiological application in that influential attitudes, values and beliefs can be identified to aid increasing healthy as well as reducing risky coronary-related behaviour.
J E Gallacher, and
J W Yarnell, and
E S Limb, and
A D Beswick, and
D S Sharp, and
P C Elwood
October 1987,
Human nutrition. Applied nutrition,
J E Gallacher, and
J W Yarnell, and
E S Limb, and
A D Beswick, and
D S Sharp, and
P C Elwood
May 1985,
British heart journal,
J E Gallacher, and
J W Yarnell, and
E S Limb, and
A D Beswick, and
D S Sharp, and
P C Elwood
March 1993,
The British journal of nutrition,
J E Gallacher, and
J W Yarnell, and
E S Limb, and
A D Beswick, and
D S Sharp, and
P C Elwood
March 1999,
Heart (British Cardiac Society),
J E Gallacher, and
J W Yarnell, and
E S Limb, and
A D Beswick, and
D S Sharp, and
P C Elwood
October 1998,
Atherosclerosis,
J E Gallacher, and
J W Yarnell, and
E S Limb, and
A D Beswick, and
D S Sharp, and
P C Elwood
January 1987,
Bibliotheca nutritio et dieta,
J E Gallacher, and
J W Yarnell, and
E S Limb, and
A D Beswick, and
D S Sharp, and
P C Elwood
November 2001,
Heart (British Cardiac Society),
J E Gallacher, and
J W Yarnell, and
E S Limb, and
A D Beswick, and
D S Sharp, and
P C Elwood
December 1993,
British heart journal,
J E Gallacher, and
J W Yarnell, and
E S Limb, and
A D Beswick, and
D S Sharp, and
P C Elwood
February 1988,
British heart journal,
J E Gallacher, and
J W Yarnell, and
E S Limb, and
A D Beswick, and
D S Sharp, and
P C Elwood
February 1993,
British heart journal,
