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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 examine the effect of monitoring and sharing physical activity outcomes (using Fitbit technology) with a domestic partner on physical activity participation. Primary research question: Does sharing physical activity outcomes from wearable technology with a participant's partner improve overall physical activity over 3 months compared to not sharing outcomes? Physical activity will be measured as minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity per week. Hypothesis: Knowledge that physical activity outcomes are visible to a participant's partner will serve as a proxy-supervision intervention. Awareness of partner's progress will serve as further motivation. Both factors will improve physical activity adherence in comparison to participants without shared outcomes.
Fun For Wellness (FFW) is an online behavioral intervention designed to promote growth in well-being by providing capability-enhancing learning opportunities to participants. This study is a randomized controlled trial (RCT) designed to provide an initial evaluation of the effectiveness of FFW to increase well-being and physical activity in an obese adult population in the United States of America. The conceptual framework for the FFW intervention is guided by self-efficacy theory. The FFW intervention consists of participants engaging in BET I CAN challenges. BET I CAN is an acronym that stands for behaviors, emotions, thoughts, interactions, awareness, and next steps. The FFW intervention is conceptualized as exerting both a positive direct effect, and a positive indirect effect through self-efficacy (i.e., well-being self-efficacy), on well-being (i.e., subjective well-being and well-being actions).
This study examines the effectiveness and the costs of a complex multiple risk behavior intervention to promote healthy behaviors in people aged between 45 and 75 years attended in Primary Health Care services. This intervention aims to reduce tobacco use, to enhance adherence to the Mediterranean dietary pattern and to increase physical activity. The study also seeks to provide evidence on the strategies to integrate health promotion into the usual clinical practice of primary care providers.
The present study will carry out a workplace health promotion via MBI with lessons of dietary behavior to help overweight or obese workers to loss weight.
The goal of this study is to evaluate the effect on first-year college students of participation in a 14-week seminar course and residential housing wellness activities.
Subjective well-being refers to people's level of satisfaction with life as a whole and with multiple dimensions within it. Interventions that promote subjective well-being are important because there is evidence that physical health, mental health, substance use and health care costs may be related to subjective well-being. This randomized controlled trial will evaluate an online intervention, named Fun For Wellness (FFW), designed to promote well-being skills and self-efficacy in six domains of life: interpersonal, community, occupational, physical, psychological, and economic (I COPPE). The Usual Care (UC) control group will be wait-listed. Five hundred (500) community-based adult patient participants will be enrolled. We hypothesize that compared to the UC group, intervention group participants will show greater improvement in their overall subjective well-being, domain-specific well-being, health-related quality of life, and well-being self-efficacy.
SEHER Plus- Strengthening Evidence base on scHool-based intErventions for pRomoting adolescent health, seeks to evaluate a school based adolescent health promotion intervention delivered by two different delivery agents viz. teacher-as-SEHER Mitra (TSM) and lay school counsellor called as SEHER Mitra (SM) in government- run secondary schools in Bihar, India. SEHER Plus will be implemented in the same randomly assigned 74 schools wherein, the SEHER trial (ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02484014)-a three armed clustered randomised trial (CRT) was implemented to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of these two models compared with the Tarang-Adolescence Education Programme (usual care) implemented by the State Government of Bihar. The SEHER trial hypothesised that both interventions, compared to the control arm, would lead to a greater impact on school climate (school connectedness and relationship with teachers and fellow students). In addition, the interventions would increase the knowledge, attitude and awareness, and promoting healthy behaviours in youth on reproductive and sexual health outcomes, mental health and substance use, and gender related attitudes and violence. The SEHER trial also hypothesized that the addition of more resource intensive component (the SM arm) would be associated with the best outcomes. The hypothesis for the SEHER Plus is that students who will have exposure to the SEHER intervention activities in two academic years (Class IX and X) will show greater benefits on the primary, secondary and exploratory outcomes than students who have exposure to the SEHER intervention activities in one academic year (Class IX).
The importance of families in the development of infants is well documented. Previous studies found that the prevalence of overweight and obesity is growing concerns in Portugal (Padez, Fernandes, Mourão, Moreira, & Rosado, 2004) and in the world (Ogden et al., 2014). More, there is evidence that habits acquired in early life might track into adulthood (Lien, Lytle, & Klepp, 2001; Lytle, Seifert, Greenstein, & McGovern, 2000; te Velde, Twisk, & Brug, 2007). Therefore, there is a need to lock overweight and obesity in early childhood in order to contribute to health gains during the entire life cycle. The main purpose of this research is to evaluate the impact of an intervention program based on parenting skills and feeding practices, on infant's growth, development and adherence to new foods in early infancy Methods: 58 infants, 4-12 months from 25 nursery schools participated in this randomized trial and were randomly allocated to intervention and control group. Infant outcomes were performed at baseline and post-intervention and included anthropometry, dietary assessment and temperament. In addition maternal and family outcomes such as anxiety, dietary intake were also assessed at both times. An intervention program was developed and Implemented according to two terms: educators' training with the researchers and the intervention with parents and infants developed by trained educators. The training program was developed between December 2013 and February 2014, according to the topics of healthy eating and nutrition and development of the infant. The control group received the standard care. It is expected that this intervention program is able to promote healthy feeding practices to parents and nursery teachers. The results will be disseminated to the stakeholders and policymakers that work closely to the topic of this study. This will include papers' publication, participation in national and international meetings, contributing to the advance of research in this health area.
SEHER- Strengthening Evidence base on scHool-based intErventions for pRomoting adolescent health, seeks to develop and evaluate a school based adolescent health promotion intervention delivered by two different delivery agents viz. teacher-as-SEHER Mitra (TSM) and lay school counsellor called as SEHER Mitra (SM) in government-run secondary schools in Bihar, India. SEHER will implement a three armed clustered randomised trial (CRT) to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of these two models compared with the Tarang-Adolescence Education Programme (usual care) implemented by the State Government of Bihar. The hypothesis is that both interventions, compared to the control arm, will lead to a greater impact on school climate (school connectedness and relationship with teachers and fellow students). In addition, the interventions will increase the knowledge, attitude and awareness, and promoting healthy behaviours in youth on reproductive and sexual health outcomes, mental health and substance use, and gender related attitudes and violence. It is hypothesized that the addition of more resource intensive component (the SM arm) will be associated with the best outcomes.