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Filter by:The focus of this randomized clinical trial study is an examination of the effects of maintaining energy balance at different energy fluxes. It will address the primary question: Are there increased health benefits related to body composition and metabolic function associated with maintaining energy balance at a high energy flux as compared to a low energy flux?
The purpose of this study is to evaluate if changes to the built environment influence physical activity and active transport to school in children and youth.
Over the last decades different life style factors have been established as risk factors for various diseases. The obesity pandemic displays a good example of a disease where great effort is undertaken to characterize risk factors associated with obesity (1). Smoking is another life style risk factor established since several decades, and where primary prevention has been increasingly successful (2, 3). Cardiovascular epidemiologic research at the University of Gothenburg recognized PA as a factor of importance early on and thus included PA related questions in the work up of studies with large cohorts (4-6). A 4-level scale was introduced in the late 1960:s by Saltin and Grimby (7) and has been used extensively since then. With this background it is of interest to record physical activity one year and one month prior to certain types of elective surgery and to study the relationship of PA to surgical complications and recovery is of interest. The aim of this study is to investigate whether a higher physical activity prior to a surgical procedure reduces hospital stay, sick leave and the complication rate. A secondary aim is to investigate the effect of preoperative physical activity on the rate of resumption of QoL and normal physical function.
Physical activity has been proven to reduce the risk of cancer. The North Carolina FITShop research study will test the effectiveness of a program aimed at increasing physical activity among African American men. Approximately 14 barbershops and 560 shop customers within Orange, Durham, Chatham, Alamance, and Wake counties will be enrolled into this research study. If FITShop is effective, we will share our results throughout North Carolina and nationally.
This study examined the impact of using a motivational mobile text messaging intervention to increase step count among older community-dwelling African Americans. Secondary aims were to study the effects of text messaging on self-reported leisure time exercise behavior. Hypothesis: Participants in the motivational mobile text messaging group will have an increase step count after 6-weeks.
The objective of the study is to evaluate the impact of physical activity in obese and nonobese prepubertal children on: 1. biological stress responses during a psychosocial stress test 2. snacking and feeling of hunger in response to the same psychosocial stress test 3. the moderating factor of attachment on the biological stress responses and on snacking Children will be investigated on one study day during 3.5 hours.
The aim of this protocol is to use a multidisciplinary approach to convey nutrition and activity messages to randomly selected Hadassah Medical Center employees. The intervention will be for one academic year and include frontal talks, email and internet focus group interactions, public demonstrations and a focused intervention within the hospital kitchen. The outcomes are specific parameters of dietary modifications, degree of physical activity and health related perspectives. Outcomes will be recorded at baseline and by the end of the intervention ( one year).
The purpose of this study is to develop a better understanding of factors affecting American's energy balance related behaviors - in this case, food intake and activity. In the present study we will describe the relative contributions of individual psychology and physiology (including metabolism, mood, and sleep habits) and external (season, stressors) contributions to changes in adiposity over a year in free-living individuals. This study will illuminate season's role in changes in energy balance related behaviors and body weight and composition. Ultimately, this information will be used to identify factors affecting food consumption and individual activity during seasonal periods to help to segment interventions for obesity prevention in mid-life women.
The purpose of this study is to test the feasibility of using targeted daily cell phone interaction to facilitate behavior change for physical activity in previously-sedentary individuals who have recently undergone a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
This study will evaluate a new tool, based on our currently implemented "Functional Assessment Screening Tablets (FAST)," and activate patients to partner with their physicians. Completion of this project, FAST-PRI, will provide important information on the effectiveness of using HIT patient feedback to inform and activate patients and promote health behavior change. Aim 1 Hypotheses: Patients who receive self-management support through HIT patient feedback (intervention) will be more likely than patients who do not receive such feedback (control) to: - Initiate discussions with their provider regarding study-designated PRI; - Have discussions with their providers, regardless of the initiator, regarding study-designated PRI; and - Perceive these discussions of study-designated PRI to be useful. Approach: We will conduct a 12-month randomized controlled trial of HIT patient feedback, clustered at the physician level, in an academic group medical practice. Patients and providers will complete questionnaires regarding discussions of health behaviors and HRQoL at each clinical encounter. Aim 2 Hypotheses: HIT patient feedback will result in: 1) increased number of smoking quit attempts, 2) increased physical activity, and 3) improved mental HRQoL at six, and twelve months. Approach: Patient participants will complete questionnaires regarding smoking quit attempts, physical activity, and their mental HRQoL at baseline, six and twelve months. Aim 3 Hypotheses: For each study-designated PRI, patients who receive HIT patient feedback will: 1) receive more treatment recommendations (e.g., nurse educator, pharmacist, social worker referrals); 2) act on more treatment recommendations; and 3) exhibit improved self-efficacy regarding their ability to make positive lifestyle changes and improve their HRQoL; physicians whose patients receive HIT patient feedback will have higher self-efficacy regarding their ability to influence their patients to make positive lifestyle changes and improve HRQoL. These, in addition to discussions (Aim 1), will mediate the relationship between HIT patient feedback and improvements in study-designated PRI. Approach: We will survey patients and physicians and abstract referral data from the electronic medical record (EMR).