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Filter by:Improving the health literacy of adolescents and increasing the success of transitions to adulthood from foster care are two defined Healthy People 2030 public health priorities. Skills to promote health literacy and independent living are often lacking in adolescents in foster care and young adults who have aged out of care. Frequent placement changes, no permanent home, lack of trust in adults and systems of care prevent the development of a strong support system for transitioning to adulthood from foster care, which can result in lack of access to personal health information, complicated identity documents, and disconnected child welfare, health care and community resources. These factors limit the ability to transition to adulthood successfully, drive disparities in health outcomes, and may explain lack of educational attainment and career development for young adults formerly in care. Successful transitions to independent living are unattainable unless barriers are addressed with a multidisciplinary, community-based approach. The Rees-Jones Center for Foster Care Excellence at Children's Health and the Krissi Holman Family Resource Library at Children's Health recognized the unique needs of adolescents in foster care and young adults formerly in care (AYAFC) as they transition to independent living. We developed a partnership with community agencies (Empowering Youth Taskforce) that support these youth in the areas of child welfare (TX Department of Family and Protective Services), education (UNT PuSH Program), career development and housing support (TRAC at City Square, Zoie's Place), legal support (SMU Dedman Law School), and others, to increase AYAFC health literacy, access to health care, and awareness and use of available community resources. Frequent placement changes and unstable housing make it difficult for AYAFC to keep their health information, identity records and personal documents together, which is critical for accessing health services, enrolling in health insurance, and maintaining wellness. Since many have access to a smart phone, using technology is one way to promote adolescent health and wellness. An app is a possible solution to address many of the barriers that impede successful transition to independent living. The goal of this project is to engage AYAFC and stakeholders who support these young people throughout North Texas to collaboratively design an app to support the transition from foster care to adulthood. This project will utilize a mixed methods approach to inform the transition process while addressing both individual and systems level barriers to increase the success of AYAFC's transition to independent living. This project builds upon work done by a multidisciplinary community task force led by the Principal Investigator, and the development of an adolescent transition process at the Rees-Jones Clinic. Community partners are fully engaged in the design of the intervention and will be involved in AYAFC and stakeholder recruitment, data analysis, and interpretation of the results.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of the Noom Healthy Weight Program, a digital behavior change weight loss intervention, on quality of life as measured both by self-report and objective measures, compared to a waitlist control condition.
Mild effort requiring, body-mind oriented, effective on multiple physical fitness parameters, ancient exercise method Qigong would be beneficial for a great number of people by using popular technological mediums in order to increase overall physical activity and wellbeing. Our aim is to evaluate the effects of Qigong exercises on endurance, muscle strength, sleep quality, level of anxiety and stress by using two different tele-rehabilitation methods.
The present double-blinded randomized controlled design aims at comparing the effects of a full-body manual massage and foam rolling intervention. Sixty-five healthy individuals were randomly allocated to foam rolling, manual massage or a control intervention consisting in an autogenic relaxation routine.
The purpose of this clinical trial is to understand how viewing educational health modules impacts vocal health behaviors in mask-wearing healthcare workers.
PWIDs have been an underserved population in the context of the current pandemic; thus, little is known about the prevalence of COVID-19 and the acceptability and possible reach of testing for COVID-19 among PWIDs. To address this gap, this study leverages a current partnership with HIV Alliance (HIVA) in Oregon and our Community and Scientific Advisory Board to support implementation and sustainability of a COVID-19 testing program. Specifically, we will use community-based participatory approaches to develop, implement, and evaluate a COVID-19 testing program offered through HIVA's Syringe Services Programs (SSP), a natural point of care for PWIDs. The COVID-19 testing program will include procedures for sample collection, transmission of specimens to the University of Oregon CLIA-certified laboratory, and results reporting. Our clinical trial is a randomized control trial focused improving the uptake of testing through a motivational enhancement intervention: Connect2Test.
This study conducted an experimental study with a randomized control group to decide on the quality of life and physical activity of the Wellness education for fifth grade students during the Covid-19 pandemic process.
Rural women are more likely to be obese and have a higher risk for chronic disease than their non-rural counterparts. Inadequate physical activity (PA) at least in part contributes to this increased risk. Rural women face personal, social and environmental barriers to PA engagement. Interventions promoting walking among rural women have demonstrated success; however, few of these studies use text messaging to promote PA. Step-2-It was a pilot study to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of text-messaging combined with a pedometer to promote PA, specifically walking among English-speaking women, aged 40 and older, living in a rural, northwest Illinois county. There were two components to the 13-week, Step-2-It intervention: (i) participants used the pedometer to track and report their steps via text message daily; and (ii) participants received an informational or motivational text message daily. Enrolled participants completed baseline assessments, received pedometers and two types of automated text messages: motivational messages to encourage walking, and accountability messages to report pedometer steps. Participants engaged in 3, 6, 9, and 12-week follow-ups to download pedometer data, and completed post-intervention assessments at 12 weeks.
The global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic that causes the severe respiratory illness COVID-19 is the worst health crisis that the United States has faced in a century. Although this highly contagious virus has infected millions of Americans already, the disease burdens are disproportionately born by historically underserved populations such as Latinx communities. This disparity is notable in Oregon, where the 13% of the population that is Latinx represents approximately 44% of COVID-19 cases. An urgent need exists to reach Oregon's Latinx community to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission. The overall goal of this study is to implement a Promotores de Salud intervention to increase the reach, access, uptake, and impact of testing in Latinx communities in Oregon. This project will fully integrate with the National institutes of Health (NIH) Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) consortium and its Coordination and Data Collection Center (CDCC). With guidance and leadership from the study's Latinx Community and Scientific Advisory Board, 38 testing sites have been established to test the Promotores de Salud intervention. The investigators will test whether the Promotores de Salud intervention will increase testing rates and promote better health behaviors in communities over time. The investigators will test the intervention using a randomized control trial comparing the intervention to county outreach services as usual. Evaluation of the Promotores de Salud intervention held during a testing event (compared to distribution of a pamphlet only) will test whether culturally competent education results in greater use of strategies that reduce transmission of COVID-19 at the community and individual level. The investigators have designed a working group structure with teams focused on: Community Engagement, Molecular Biology, Data Science, and Implementation Science. These working groups are coordinated by an Administrative Hub and guided by the study's Latinx Community and Scientific Advisory Board. Over time, this project will help communities institutionalize optimal local testing frameworks supported by University of Oregon laboratory facilities for testing capacity, technical support for testing logistics, and collection of data on health behaviors, testing rates, and sustainability. The resulting structures and systems will be poised for future scale-up to other vulnerable communities and/or for other public health purposes (e.g., vaccination campaigns).
The aim of this study is to identify the risk factors favoring the contagion of COVID-19 by studying the quarantine behavior and preventive measures in the Mexican population. As a secondary aim, the investigators sought to identify areas that need reinforcement, to help develop strategies for a successful plan to face an upcoming pandemic.