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Filter by:This study will investigate how dietary sugar and carbohydrates influence metabolism and health across a 12-week period, with a focus on physical activity. One third of participants will eat a diet with typical amounts of sugar and carbohydrate, one third of participants will eat a diet with sugar intake restricted, and the final third of participants will eat a diet where both sugar and total carbohydrates are restricted and replaced with fat.
This study will evaluate the main effects of daily vs. weekly feedback and contingent vs. non-contingent incentives for increasing walking behavior among overweight and obese adults.
To date, few interventions have been designed specifically to promote physical activity in young adult cancer survivors, nor used novel technologies for delivery; none have been successful in promoting long-term adherence to PA. The purpose of this randomized controlled trial is to test the efficacy of a theory-based, mobile physical activity intervention with adaptive goal-setting and tailored feedback that is aimed at increasing physical activity among young adult cancer survivors.
Objective: To evaluate the effect of a multicomponent physical activity program, compared with the usual medical practice, to reverse prefrailty by Fried in people over 70 years, one year after the end of the intervention.
The purpose of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness of a 9-week psycho-social and physical activity program aimed at improving body image, physical self-perceptions, and self-compassion for at-risk adolescent girls. In collaboration with the Elizabeth Fry Society, the GUM program will be delivered to at-risk adolescent girls within the Okanagan Region. Information will be gathered concerning program content and delivery, as well as insights into the participants' experiences with the program. These results will provide much needed information about whether programs integrating psychological, social, and physical components of health are beneficial for this population.
The purpose of this study is to test whether deposit contracts, wherein individuals invest their own money with the study to serve as the incentive, with or without daily feedback about progress help individuals to increase step counts and more often meet a step goal compared to self-monitoring only.
The purpose of this study is to develop and test a brief program to help overweight people become more physically active. We plan to design a program that teaches people how to become more active by identifying how fitness enables them to live their lives better. Participants will be asked to complete questionnaires and wear a device that tracks their exercise for 1 week. If accepted into the study, they will receive a 1 day program designed to help them exercise more. Then they will receive phone calls and emails for support after the program. Finally, participants will come in 3 and 6 months after the program to complete the same questionnaires and wear the exercise tracker again. The study is primarily interested in increasing exercise levels, and so we hope to see participants exercising more after the program than they were before. We will also ask them questions (via the questionnaires) that tell us the degree to which they are exercising based on their one desires and values, as opposed to doing it because they were told to.
The study aims to investigate gender-specific adaptations to beta2-adrenoceptor stimulation with selective short- and long-acting beta2-agonist with emphasis on skeletal muscle in relation to performance enhancing effects and anti-doping
In this randomized, controlled trial the investigators will compare the use of social and financial incentive-based interventions to increase physical activity among overweight and obese Veterans during a 12-week intervention with 8 weeks of follow-up.
This study employs a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) and aims to determine the most effective adaptive intervention combining four efficacious treatments (enhanced physical activity monitor, motivational text messages, motivational personal calls, group meetings) to increase physical activity and improve cardiovascular health among sedentary employed women.