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Filter by:Chronic conditions, such as obesity and diabetes, are increasing worldwide. Lifestyle changes (e.g., physical activity, healthy diet, sufficient sleep, managing stress, smoking cessation) are often recommended to prevent or manage these conditions, but changing habits is difficult. Mental health can play a role in the ability to seek out and follow through on the changes necessary to achieve or maintain a healthy lifestyle, yet this aspect is rarely addressed, and access to mental health services is often limited. Furthermore, individuals are influenced by factors at the individual, interpersonal, community and policy levels (e.g., lack of socialization, unsafe neighborhoods). These factors can act as barriers and need to be addressed in order for individuals to make sustainable lifestyle changes. A new year-long person-centered healthy lifestyles program is proposed to address the "how to" gap in making lifestyle changes through a combination of individual and group sessions. The feasibility and implementation of this new program will be evaluated through a pilot study looking at the full healthy lifestyles program compared to a less intensive version of the program. The study's hypothesis is that the full program will be feasible, acceptable and more effective for helping participants move across stages of change and for meeting their goals than the less intensive program.
The purpose of this study is to test the efficacy of delivering an exercise and healthy lifestyle program, Smart Aging, to older adults.
Most of family physicians (FPs) use advertising in their waiting rooms in order to educate patients. Our objective was to assess an advertising campaign for influenza vaccination using posters and pamphlets in FPs' waiting rooms. Registry based 2/1 cluster randomized controlled trial. Clusters gathered the listed patients over the age of 16 of 75 randomized FPs. The trial was conducted during the 2014-2015 influenza vaccination campaign. Intervention group, 25 FPs received and exposed in their waiting rooms pamphlets and one poster promoting the influenza vaccination campaign (added to the usual mandatory information). Control group (50 FPs), usual waiting room. The main outcome was the number of vaccination units delivered in pharmacies. Data were first extracted for 2013-2015 from the SIAM-ERASME claim database of the Health Insurance Fund of Lille-Douai (Northern France). The association between the intervention and the main outcome was assessed trough a generalized estimating equation.
To examine the impact of health determinants at the individual (e.g. health related behaviors) and societal level (e.g. environmental factors, health related policy, quality of health systems) on health outcomes (e.g. death, non-communicable disease development) across a range of socioeconomic and health resource settings. Additional components of this study will examine genetic factors for non-communicable diseases. This will be examined both through a cross sectional component, and prospectively (cohort component).
Obesity is the 5th leading cause of global death, and is major risk factors for many chronic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and cancer. Obesity is caused by an imbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure, and it is widely agreed to be a consequence of a gene by environment interaction. Although on average obesity rates are increasing, the shape of the distribution of adiposity is changing: it is becoming more right skewed. This is because there is a population of very lean subjects that has remained almost unchanged by the epidemic. The investigators have called these very lean individuals that are resistant to the epidemic and sustain a BMI < 18.5 kg/m2 'super lean' subjects. We have very little understanding of the lifestyles of these individuals and how they are able to maintain their super lean phenotype, and whether the basis of their leanness is primarily genetics.
This study's objective was to test the efficacy, acceptability and feasibility of a motivational interviewing (MI) based smoking cessation intervention with nurses.
A health education program was provided to higher education students aged between 18 and 25 years. Students were recruited either by posters and leaflets on campus, or during their mandatory medical survey at the University Medical Department. The objectives are to assess health behavior risk among college student : e.g eating disorders, binge drinking, electronic cigarettes and also stress, burnout
Patients attending the smoking cessation programme at the Virgen del Rocío University Hospital under the SoLoMo clinical trial of the SmokeFreeBrain project and provided with the SoLoMo mobile app will be observed for one year. This mobile app which sends the patients tailored health motivational messages selected by a health recommender system, and based on their user profile retrieved from an electronic health record. Patients' messages feedback and interactions with the app will be analyzed and evaluated following an observational prospective methodology to see whether patients like the messages, and measure the patient engagement with the health recommender system.
The purpose of this research is to develop, apply, and evaluate a school-based intervention program in East Jerusalem schools, designed to increase knowledge and to improve the attitudes and healthy behavior of schoolchildren, their teachers and their mothers' with regard to healthy eating and physical activity habits. The study tested the hypothesis that the impact of the entire school intervention program on students' lifestyles is mediated by their teachers' engagement in health promotion and by their mothers' involvement in school activity.
The purpose of this research study is to design, implement, and evaluate a community level, socio-ecological based CVD prevention intervention using a participatory approach for women in a homogeneous ultra-Orthodox Jewish Hasidic community in Israel. A quasi-experimental, pre-post study design will be utilized, where all community participants will be exposed to intervention components. Pre and post samples will be selected through randomized cluster sampling of pre-existing community groups. It is hypothesized that ultra-Orthodox Jewish Hasidic women exposed to this community intervention will have improved healthy eating behaviors, reduced unhealthy eating behaviors, increased engagement in physical activity and sleep, and reduced risk for obesity (weight, BMI).