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Filter by:THE AIMS: The project aims at investigating of the effects of three types of planning (individual planning, collaborative planning, and dyadic planning) on physical activity.The influence of three planning interventions are compared with an active control condition, including physical activity education. PARTICIPANTS: The effects of the interventions are evaluated among dyads of patient and his/her partner. The patients with physical activity-related chronic diseases (cerebrovascular diseases or diabetes) will be enrolled. A minimum of 50 dyads enrolled into the each arm of the trial (a total of 200 dyads). The interventions consist of six planning sessions. DESIGN: The dyads are randomly assigned to one of four experimental conditions. The assessment of the main and secondary outcomes is conducted at the baseline, at 1 week after the first intervention session, at post-intervention (after six intervention sessions are completed), and at 6-, and 12-month follow-ups. OUTCOMES: Physical activity constitutes the main outcome, whereas health-related quality of life (HRQOL), body mass index, as well as the self-regulatory strategy called the use of planning (individual, dyadic and collaborative) are secondary outcomes.
The Feed1st proposed program of research will promote health of informal caregivers with a hospitalized child by testing a self-management intervention that addresses the widely overlooked problem of caregiver hunger. As many as 54% of parents and other informal caregivers of hospitalized children struggle with insufficient food to nourish themselves and their family during and after a hospital stay. Hunger impairs caregiver physical and mental health by depleting energy for self-care, emotional self-regulation, and supportive interactions with the child, the family, and the formal caregiver team. The long-term objective of the Feed1st program is to alleviate hunger and food insecurity among families with hospitalized children. Established in partnership with nursing and chaplaincy leadership at our children's hospital and the Greater Chicago Food Depository, the Feed1st program currently operates self-serve food pantries on four inpatient units and the emergency department in our children's hospital on Chicago's South Side. Since 2010, Feed1st has provided nearly 8500 pounds of food to at least 4,000 individuals and 1500 households via the self-serve food pantries in the children's hospital. Over this same period, our team has also created a system for efficiently connecting families to community-based resources for hunger and other basic needs.
In this study, researchers will test the effectiveness of a self-management education programme, on self-management behaviours of patients with type two diabetes. Up to 230 consenting participants will be recruited from outpatient diabetes clinics in Jordan, 230 participants will be randomised to one of two groups. Group 1 ( 115 patients) have received the intervention, which consisted of an introductory session of tailored, face-to-face education and advice, followed by educational materials to take away, and regular telephone support at a regularity specified by the patient, over a three-month period. This intervention is based on behavioural change theory called the Information-Motivational-Behavioural skills model. Group 2 (115 patients) have received usual clinical care with no additional intervention. Researchers have assessed the effectiveness of the intervention by measuring self-care strategies (dietary habits, physical activity and managing diabetes medications), diabetes control (HbA1c), quality of life and Diabetes Self-Management Knowledge, Motivation and Self-Efficacy at 3 time points: before the intervention, at 3 months and at 6 months.
This study evaluates the short- and long-term effects on psychological wellbeing and health-related behaviours of the updated version of a universal school-based program called Diario della Salute (DDS-2) in Italian students aged 11-13 years.
This study evaluates the 6 month exercise intervention (Taiji and gym course) combined with free use of communal recreation facilities in fall prevention. Morbidity, use of social services and health outcomes of aging women in province of Kuopio, Finland are also monitored. The study combines a six months supervised exercise, followed by six months free, but unsupervised, use of recreational facilities and observational period of second year into total of 2 year follow up duration.
For the past few years, the survival rate of breast cancer improved due to the advancement of surgery techniques and popularization of cancer screening. However, prolonged survival rate is definitely not equal to achieving a sound quality of life among breast cancer survivors. The health status of cancer survivors might deteriorate according to the severe side effect of multiple therapies. Health literacy is the ability to access, understand, evaluate and communication information as a way to promote and maintain health. Therefore, good health literacy raise the quality of life of breast cancer survivors by a good competence in searching and using medical resources. Moreover, how to improve health literacy after cancer surgery becomes an important part recently. Even if the most fundamental concept has promoted for decades, the clinical workers still use the identical education of medical care after surgery for breast cancer survivors. However, the identical education is not appropriate for each of patients. In fact, each of breast cancer survivors has the different cancer stage leading to accept different therapy and producing different side effect. Besides, the background and the role of life are very different from each other. Because of the above reasons, the aim of the study is going to develop a tailored rehabilitated education, which fit for each breast cancer patients after surgery in clinic. At the same time, the health literacy ability might be improved by tailored rehabilitated education. When health literacy level is raised, the breast cancer survivors have a good quality of life and beautiful health status.
The high prevalence and burden of cardiometabolic disease underlie the urgent need to identify novel approaches to managing and preventing cardiometabolic disease and risk. This project will test an innovative use of mobile health technology to implement a closed-loop feedback system that collects objective patient-generated data and provides clinical recommendations to modify contributing health behaviors. In addition to improving care for cardiometabolic disease, the tools and methods developed by this study for collecting patient data and providing clinical feedback could also easily be adapted and applied to a range of other health conditions, and are thus highly relevant to public health.
This study evaluates the early infant feeding in the infant intestinal microecology and the long term health. 300 healthy term newborns were involved into the study on its first stage. Depending on the type of feeding the infants were divided into 3 groups with random allocation to one of the formula feeding groups: the group A included 100 infants consuming the formula supplement with superior quality whey protein, the group B -100 infants fed with a standard formula, and the group C -100 infants who were breastfed.
This study was designed to evaluate the feasibility of a telephone-based health coach self-management intervention for young adults.
In this study, the investigators would use the training workshops as a capacity build method to deliver the holistic health knowledge for the trainers and ambassadors implementing and assisting the community-based programs for the public. The investigators hypothesize that the training workshops and mobile health messages would promote the health awareness and the health of the participants. The investigators would expect the participants influence the health behavior and attitude of their family members.