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Filter by:This study aims to examine consumer responses to traditional and counter-marketing messages discouraging sugary drink consumption, including effects on intentions to consume sugary drinks and perceived weight stigma. Because prior research has suggested that counter-marketing may be especially effective among younger populations, the investigators will examine effects overall and by age group (young adults [ages 18-29 years] vs. middle and older adults [ages 30+ years]).
The burden of disease experienced by underweight children is significant, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Gut dysbiosis, an imbalance in microbial composition, is thought to play a role in nutrient malabsorption leading to underweight infants and failure to thrive. Bifidobacterium longum subspecies infantis (B. infantis) is a commensal bacterial strain important in the breakdown of human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs). A decrease in abundance or absence of B. infantis could lead to inadequate HMO processing, elevating intestinal pH and increasing the risk of pathogen overgrowth. Bi-26 is a B. infantis probiotic strain that is being evaluated in this study for its impact on weight gain and other health outcomes in underweight infants.
STUDY TITLE: Effect of olive oil massage on growth of preterm low birth weight neonate: A randomized controlled clinical trial." SUMMARY: Preterm low birth weight (LBW) babies have more the risk of the neurological complications, physiological problems and mental retardation. Topical massage with natural oil is routinely practiced in some country. The positive effects of massage are weight gain, improved sleep/wake pattern, decreased the stress, early discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), improve the skin integrity and enhanced parent's infant bonding. This randomized control trial study will be conducted in the Department of Neonatology,Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University(BSMMU) and post natal ward of Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology with the aim to assess the effect of olive oil message on growth in low birth weight neonate. In this study tolal 50 inborn low birth weight neonate will be enrolled. Out of which 25 will be in intervention group and 25 will be in control group. In the intervention group, mothers will be encouraged to massage their babies with 10 ml of olive oil for 15 min, twice a day until 10 days of life. Those allocated to the control group were received care as usual. Weight and head circumference was measured at enrolment, after 10 days and on 30 days of age in both the groups. Comparisons between groups for categorical variables will be performed using the χ2-test. Student's t-test will be used to compare two groups for normally distributed quantitative data. The difference will be considered significant for P < 0.05.
Haemodialysis (HD) is the most commonly used method among renal replacement therapy options in patients with End Stage Renal Failure. Although one of the most important factors affecting the success of this treatment is compliance with fluid restriction, the rates of non-compliance with fluid control vary between 10-74%. It is understood from the literature that fluid restriction is one of the most difficult areas in compliance with HD treatment. Interdialytic weight gain is the most widely accepted method to assess compliance with fluid control by measuring the amount of fluid accumulated in the body. Thus, studies on this subject have shown that excessive interdialytic weight gain is a common problem in HD patients. It is known that excessive interdialytic weight gain increases the risk of morbidity and mortality in HD patients. The main factors causing interdialytic weight gain are fluid and salt intake between two HD sessions is appears to be. Therefore, it is stated that the easiest solution to control excessive interdialytic weight gain is to reduce fluid and salt intake. However, studies have reported that HD patients have difficulty in adapting to a salt-restricted diet, and in this case, they increase their fluid consumption. Therefore, it is of vital importance that public health nurses carry out interventions to ensure HD patients' compliance with fluid and salt control. In the literature review conducted with this perspective, studies were encountered in which results were obtained that m-health interventions provided a decrease in interdialytic weight gain averages and sodium intake. In this direction, a HafifMod programme based on the use of mobile health technologies was created. The aim of the study is to examine the effect of the LightMod programme for fluid and salt control guided by the Health Belief Model on interdialytic weight gain in routine haemodialysis patients.
The purpose of this research is to compare two healthy diet styles during pregnancy. Sixty pregnant women between 8 and 16 weeks will participate. Participates will be randomly assigned (like flipping a coin) to either receive routine healthy diet advice and counseling, or to receive advice and counseling for the Mediterranean style diet. Our current routine healthy diet program follows the recommendations provided by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). It recommends the consumption of grains, fruits, vegetables, protein foods, and dairy foods during pregnancy. The Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) is a well-known healthy diet that consists of a large amount of plant-based foods such as fruits, vegetables, beans, and nuts with olive oil as the principal source of fat. Dairy, fish, and poultry are consumed in moderation and red meat only eaten occasionally. Throughout their pregnancy, participants will receive free food and be assessed to determine how will they are following to the diet plan they were randomized to.
This Phase 1b Study RDX-002-22-09 has been planned to evaluate the effect of RDX-002 on postprandial triglycerides and ApoB48 levels in normal healthy subjects treated with the atypical antipsychotic drug, olanzapine.
The transition to university from secondary school comes with many changes to living arrangements, dietary and alcohol intake, physical activity, and stress. The purpose of this study is to explore weight gain in new university students in the UK under the 'Freshman15' phenomenon. This phenomenon is an expression commonly used in the United States and Canada to describe a weight gain of 15 lbs (6.8 kg) in students who transition from secondary school to university life. The study will assess the factors that predict students' weight gain during their first year at the University of Aberdeen. The change in lifestyle will be explored in relation to age-matched individuals not-attending university.
Maternal undernutrition is a global public health problem with far-reaching effects for both mothers and infants. Poor maternal nutrition negatively affects fetal growth and development. Both micro and macro-nutrients are required for the physiological changes and increased metabolic demands during pregnancy, including fetal growth and development. Women in Bangladesh have poor diets and are struggling to meet their nutrient requirements, especially during pregnancy and lactation when requirements are higher. Maternal undernutrition during pregnancy is associated with a range of adverse birth outcomes, including stillbirths, preterm births, low birthweight, and small-for-gestational-age (SGA) neonates, all of which remain unacceptably high in Bangladesh. Social protection provides a promising platform on which to leverage improvements in nutrition at scale, but current evidence on the impacts of social protection on birth outcomes is limited: few studies have been conducted and some of these studies suffer from methodological limitations. The planned study will contribute to filling this knowledge gap. An additional motivation for the study is provided by the recent WHO 2016 Antenatal Care Guidelines. The guidelines call for studies on the effectiveness of alternatives to providing energy and protein supplements to pregnant women (which is recommended in undernourished populations). Studying the effectiveness of providing combinations of food and cash will help build this evidence base. A third reason to conduct the study is that both food transfers and cash transfers are commonly used policy instruments in Bangladesh, and the choice of intervention components to scale up in the CBP will be guided by the findings from this pilot study. The study findings will thus be highly policy relevant. A three-arm cluster-randomized, non-masked, community-based, longitudinal trial will be used. Groups of pregnant women will be randomly assigned to one of three study arms providing different combinations of cash and food transfers.
The proposed multicomponent digital health intervention has the potential to significantly impact the trajectory of maternal health in a rural, pregnant, Black adolescent population with the highest risks for cardiometabolic diseases worldwide. The proposed implementation strategy leverages mobile technologies which are ubiquitous across the socioeconomic gradient and proposes to train young adult WIC moms to deliver peer health coaching in a telehealth setting to address social barriers and support behavior change in pregnant, Black adolescent WIC clients in the Mississippi Delta - a rural region where the population is more than two-thirds percent Black and the teen birth rate is the highest in the United States. This is a scalable and sustainable approach to enhance WIC services and improve WIC's impact on population health and cardiometabolic health disparities in Black women.
Objective: The objective of the present research is to compare the nutritional status, weight gain, length of hospital stay, and development of some complications in very low birth-weight (VLBW) infants who received and did not receive olive oil supplementation enterally.