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Filter by:The purpose of the current study is to test different email messages to determine the most effect way of promoting enrollment in Geisinger's patient portal, called myGeisinger.
The Goal of the study is to identify trait-homogenous groups of cancer patients in regards to their physical activity associated health literacy. Based on these Groups, individualized exercise protocols and educative strategies can be developed which may increase the efficacy of the exercise therapy and increases the likelihood that patient get involved in physical activity.
The purpose of the current study is to test different interventions to determine the most effective way to promote flu vaccine uptake in a high-risk population identified by an "artificial intelligence" (AI) or machine learning (ML) algorithm. The specific aims are: 1. Evaluate the effect on flu vaccination rates of informing health-system patients who are identified by an ML analysis of EHR data to be at high risk for flu complications that they are at high risk with either (a) no additional explanation, (b) an explanation that this determination comes from an analysis of their medical records, and (c) the additional explanation that an AI or ML algorithm made this determination. 2. Evaluate the effects of the same three interventions on diagnoses of flu in the same patients.
The goal of this study is to pilot test a 12-week behavioral intervention among perimenopausal Latinas (age 40-55 years) that integrates evidence-based education with physical activity, stress management, and coping skills training to: 1) reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and arterial stiffness; 2) improve nutrition, physical activity, and sleep behaviors; and 3) improve stress management, coping strategies, and self-efficacy. This study will recruit participants from two community groups: one group will be randomly assigned to complete the intervention; the other will be a wait-list control.
The program consists of four interconnected components: (1) app, (2) accelerometer, (3) health coaching, and (4) behavioral incentives to increase food and vegetable intake, reduce saturated fat intake, increase physical activity, and decrease sedentary screen time among adults Appalachia Kentuckians.
An intervention program involving education, guidance, counseling, case management and surveillance based on the Health Belief Model will be implemented on women with high risk of breast cancer. The impact of the breast cancer risk reduction program on participation in breast cancer screenings, health beliefs (health motivation, sensitivity, fear of breast cancer) and behaviors (physical activity, nutrition, health responsibility, genetic counseling) will be evaluated in the study.
The primary aim of this study is to examine the effectiveness of incorporating manually adjustable sit-stand desks in the classroom environment of 9-10 year olds in reducing sedentary behaviour at school during a full school year. Secondary aims include evaluating the effects of the intervention on health and learning outcomes as well as comparing the impact of full classroom allocation of sit-stand desks to a classroom of partial sit-stand desk allocation.
Practical interventions are needed to increase physical activity (PA) levels in insufficiently active individuals. HEAT is a randomized controlled trial comparing two different exercise prescription (ExRx) methods to increase PA volume among insufficiently active UConn students. Students will be randomized to two groups: (1) ExRx#1 will emphasize meeting the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans via the Frequency, Intensity, Time, and Type or FITT principle of ExRx; and (2) ExRx#2 will be founded in the Integrated Behavior Change Theory and based on the 2018 Physical Activity Guidelines Review Committee Scientific Report heat map which emphasizes that all PA counts. HEAT aims to assess the effectiveness of each ExRx individually and comparatively to one another for each outcome measure. We hypothesize that UConn students in ExRx#2 will increase PA volume more than ExRx#1 in response to the 12wk ExRx due to its foundation in the IBC. If our hypothesis proves correct we aim to inform healthcare providers on university campuses on which method of ExRx is more effective at increasing PA participation among their insufficiently active students.
The main objective of the proposed research is to experimentally test and inform the most effective brand attributes that is to be featured in the forthcoming Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Adults. Specifically, there are two main objectives. The first objective is to determine the most preferred tagline associated with the new Guidelines among a sample of Canadian adults. The second objective is to experimentally test if this new attribute fosters stronger perceptions of self-efficacy among an adult sample, when compared to previous threshold-based approaches.
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) compose a substantial proportion of the global burden of diseases, posing a significant challenge in both high-income and low- and middle-income countries. In particular, certain lifestyle-related risk factors, such as unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, and sleep deprivation are the leading risk factors, which place people at an increased risk of developing NCDs. On the other hand, a growing phenomenon of excessive concern about diet and health is emerging, and it is contributing to the development of a novel eating behavior disorder named orthorexia nervosa. According to recent studies, orthorexic behavior is very common among young adults and especially so in health-care professionals. The main objective of this multi-center study is to explore and compare lifestyle habits among undergraduate medical students and other healthcare-related professions from different countries (Croatia, Lebanon, Italy, Poland, Spain, and Turkey). The goal is to obtain information on the presence of unhealthy habits in order to be able to intervene, offering the information needed for primordial disease prevention in this young and still healthy group of respondents, who are the health educators and role models of the future. The particular importance of this goal is to raise awareness of the problem of the ubiquitously present unhealthy lifestyles. Unfortunately, health-care students are not the exception regarding the prevalence of the unhealthy diet, sedentary behavior, sleep deprivation and high levels of psychological stress. Furthermore, the adoption of unhealthy lifestyle patterns in health-care workers, such as doctors and nurses, will have far-reaching negative consequences, in both their health and their patients' health. The results of this study will be used for identifying the needs and targets for intervention, enabling students to become a pillar of health education for their patients and the population in general.