title: Changing intentions to use smokeless tobacco: an application of the IMB model.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine if the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills model was effective for development of a smokeless tobacco educational unit (STEU) and analysis of STEU effects.
  
  
  METHODS
  Structural equation modeling was used to test component relations proposed by the IMB model and STEU effects on parallel growth of IMB components.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results confirmed IMB model component relationships and indicated that STEU effects were primarily on information with indirect effects on expectancies and self-efficacy change through information.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Prevention programming needs to address all IMB model components. Organizing analysis around the IMB model provides better understanding of program outcomes.
authors: Nebraska Prevention Center for Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education and Human Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.
authors: Duane F
authors: DF
authors: Shell
authors: Ian M
authors: IM
authors: Newman
authors: Christina M
authors: CM
authors: Perry
authors: Ashlee R B
authors: AR
authors: Folsom
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009042:Motivation; D009329:Nebraska; D012424:Rural Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012574:Schools; D020377:Self Efficacy; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D020340:Tobacco Use Cessation / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology*