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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to characterize the existing health behaviors and obstacles to healthy lifestyle among the medical staff in a maternity ward in order to develop a specifically-tailored intervention to help improve the health behaviors of hospital shift workers.The findings will be used to establish a community-based participatory health-promoting program in the ward, engaging the staff in its development and implementation.
The purpose of the study was to describe and evaluate the effectiveness of health coaching on health-related quality of life, adherence to health regimens, clinical health outcomes and lifestyle factors among frequent attenders in primary healthcare.
Prescribing lifestyle changes to patients who have cardiovascular disease (CVD) may be an extremely cost effective mechanism of improving health individually and for the NHS. Positive lifestyle changes such as improved diet, increased physical activity, quitting smoking and reducing alcohol consumption have been proven to reform the health status of individuals with CVD. S-PLAC 2 is a phase II study to determine the efficacy of a lifestyle prescription (L℞) in patients and healthcare practitioners in a secondary care setting (i.e. hospital clinics/wards).
The main goals of this study is to better understand how an experiential cooking, movement and mindfulness intervention influence elementary school children at Spring Valley School. program diet, fitness, metabolic outcomes, health literacy and overall well-being. Specifically, the role of the novel empowering experiential learning through a cooking and fitness intervention activities will play on health literacy and metabolic outcomes, engagement in fitness and motivation, and stress levels will be evaluated.
This pilot study will test the feasibility and acceptability of an enhanced individual-level intervention delivered to 4th-6th graders to increase rates of walking to/from school. Up to 8 youth who do not already walk to school will be enrolled into the intervention. The theoretically-based intervention content will be delivered over 6 weeks through family-based telephone coaching sessions, ongoing short message service (SMS) text messaging, and activities and content on the study website.
Body Dissatisfaction (BD) is associated with marked distress and often precipitates disordered eating symptomology (Milligan & Pritchard, 2006). BD in male athletes is an important area to explore, as research in this field often focuses on eating disorders in female athletes (e.g., Becker et al., 2012; Varnes et al., 2013). The current body of literature regarding male college athletes suggests that they experience pressures associated with both societal muscular ideals and sport performance (Galli et al., 2015). While there is a clear association between drive for muscularity and BD in collegiate male athletes (Galli et al., 2015), no study to date has conducted research aimed to attenuate the effect of BD in this population. The current study seeks to investigate a BD intervention for male college athletes. Participants will be randomized to an adapted version of the standardized Female Athlete Body Project (i.e., the Male Athlete Body Project) or an assessment only control condition. All participants will complete baseline and post-treatment measures of BD, negative affect, internalization of an athletic ideal, drive for muscularity, sport confidence, eating pathology, and unhealthy weight-control behaviors. Study aims are to determine if the Male Athlete Body Project intervention group reduces BD and related factors post-treatment, and to investigate whether these differences are maintained at 1-month follow up. Results will inform mental health and sport clinicians, coaches, and other personnel involved in an athlete's care about successful strategies for decreasing BD.
HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART) has the potential to dramatically decrease HIV transmission worldwide. In Tanzania, HIV prevalence is ~5%, with 1.6 million people living with HIV/AIDS; it is the leading cause of hospitalization and death among Tanzanian adults. However, less than 50% of HIV-infected Tanzanian adults know their status.Successful implementation of community-based services requires an understanding of the social and cultural context that influence community engagement with HIV services. Specifically, many HIV endemic regions are also medically pluralistic communities, where multiple explanatory frameworks for health and disease co-exist. In these areas, HIV testing and ART clinical care do not occur in isolation; traditional healers are commonly utilized instead of or concurrently with biomedical services. Therefore, the success of decentralized, community-based HIV services must be founded upon a thorough understanding of medical pluralism, and engagement with traditional healers as stakeholders in community health. This study will investigate the feasibility of involving traditional healers in HIV testing, and pilot an intervention to expand HIV testing within communities that use traditional medicine in Mwanza, Tanzania.
Analyze baseline concurrent opioid prescribing metrics at the individual prescriber level in the Duke Health System on the identified three main outcome measures. Test the impact of reports on opioid prescriber behaviors with the following primary measures: number of prescriptions with concurrent benzo within reporting period, number of prescriptions with concurrent muscle relaxants within reporting period, and number of encounters with naloxone prescriptions for patients with any opioid-related diagnosis within reporting period. Create a blueprint to implement the concurrent opioid prescribing nudge intervention in other settings.
Compassion-Centered Spiritual Health (CCSH) at Emory University was launched as a joint creation by Spiritual Health and the Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics in 2018. The program enhances the practice of spiritual health through CCSH Interventions, which are a Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT)-based approach to support the practices of spiritual health clinicians. CBCT is a research-based contemplative program developed at Emory University in 2004. CCSH Interventions are provided by spiritual health clinicians across Emory's inpatient and outpatient facilities and beyond, and offer a method to alleviate distress in patients and families and to mitigate burnout in healthcare professionals. While the intervention will be required for some staff and provider populations, Spiritual Health proposes to pilot a voluntary systematic implementation of CCSH Interventions for Teams (CCSH-TI) to clinical research teams at Winship Cancer Institute. Clinical Research Coordinators (CRCs) experience significant emotional and spiritual burden through exposure to patients living with cancer and undergoing clinical trials for cancer treatment. As individuals and teams, CRCs face multiple work-related challenges known to cause distress, including experiences of secondary trauma, exposure to emotional and spiritual suffering of patients and families, and experiences of loss of patients. The researchers of this study hope that offering CCSH Interventions for Teams to CRCs will increase their resilience, wellbeing and compassion toward self and others, with a secondary benefit that burnout will be reduced. By conducting this pilot project, the researchers hope to gain a better understanding of how to optimally implement CCSH for CRC teams at the Winship Cancer Institute.
The objective of this study was to assess the effectiveness of a 6-month text-based mobile health and wellness (mHWC) intervention, as compared to usual care (UC), for weight loss in adults. Participants were randomly assigned to one of the two groups (mHWC or UC). At the beginning of the study, both groups were given a Fitbit wearable device, and a weight scale. All participants also received a counseling session from a dietician focused on diet, physical activity, and sleep, and were set up on the Nudge app, a commercially-available mHWC platform. Participants in the mHWC group received text-based coaching messages via Nudge and did not return to the clinic for the duration of the 6-month intervention. Those in the UC group met once a month with a pharmacist or dietician for 6 months. In both groups, the focus was on facilitating health behavior change related to diet, physical activity, and sleep to promote weight loss. We hypothesized that weight loss at 6 months would be greater in the mHWC group vs. the UC group.