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Filter by:The corona crisis has a negative impact on the mental wellbeing of the Dutch population. Positive psychology exercises (PPOs) can potentially improve mental well-being and reduce mild and moderate psychological complaints. Previous research has shown moderate to large effects of PPOs on well-being in people with reduced wellbeing and psychological symptoms at baseline. The University of Twente developed an app (Training in Positivity; TiP) based on an effective intervention. The goal of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of TiP in the general population in people experiencing reduced mental wellbeing as a result of the corona crisis. People using the app will be compared to a waiting list control group.
AVANCE-Houston seeks to understand whether a standard or compressed schedule format for delivering the Survival Skills for Healthy Families curriculum better meets the needs of low-income adults to improve skill retention and, ultimately, to promote better outcomes for healthy family relationships and economic stability.
Rationale: Oral processing behaviours (i.e. eating rate, bite size, chews per bite, oral exposure time etc.) play a major role in food ingestion and digestion, and potentially influence satiation and satiety responses . Experimental studies showed that a prolonged mastication or a slower eating rate is associated with decreased food intake , and increased satiety response per kcal consumed. Therefore, one possible approach to control the intake and appetite is to encourage eating behaviour that slow the rate of food intake and enhance the onset of satiety. Texture led changes to oral processing behaviours could offer an exciting opportunity to adapt an individual's response to structure properties of the food being consumed in a way that maintains the associated eating experience and satiety from food intake. However, no studies to date have investigated how differences in food processing influences food texture characteristics and oral processing behaviours, and subsequently impact on individuals' satiety responses and their subsequent food intake. The proposed study will examine the role of oral processing behaviours and/ or food processing (i.e. minimally processed, processed and ultra-processed) on satiety responses and the subsequent food intake Objectives: The objectives of the study are to characterise the differences in oral processing behaviours (i.e. eating rate, bite size, chew per bite, oral exposure time etc.) and satiety responses of meals that differ in their degree of processing, and to further investigate how texture-based differences in oral processing behaviours modified by degree of food processing influence the satiety responses (fullness over the time) and subsequent food intake. Study design: A total of 1 screening session (Session 1) and 4 test sessions (Sessions 2 to 5) and 2x2 randomised crossover design where participants receive 4 treatments (i.e. 4 test meals) over 4 test sessions Study population: Healthy males ( n=50), aged 21-50 years with BMI between 18-25 kg/m2 Intervention: Session 1 involves tasting of up to 16 food items and computer task to rate and evaluate their perception and health behaviour. Sessions 2 to 5 involve evaluation of sensory characteristics, video recording of participants eating, and wrist-worn accelerometer to track wrist movement while consuming the 4 test meals.
In South America, the prevalence of HBV is variable but high (> 8%) in the Amazon basin. In some areas, a third of HBsAg carriers are also infected with HDV, a major comorbidity factor. The pre-core mutations are associated with the negative HBe Ag phenotype which is associated with a more severe course. These mutations are of increasing and high frequency. French Guiana is populated by populations of African, European and Asian origins with chains of viral transmission which are not known and viruses probably of different origins with variable virulence and transmission potentials.
This study intends to establish the normal reference values of carotid artery intima-media thickness and vascular elasticity of Chinese adults based on ultrasound radio frequency technology through a multi-center large-sample study, which provides important information for the risk prediction and prognosis evaluation of Chinese adults' cardiovascular disease.
Overweight is a risk factor for a number of non-communicable diseases, and this risk doubles, if an individual is physically inactive. Various exercise interventional protocols in the past have been reported on treating overweight and obesity which helps to decrease the different anthropometric variables. Despite all these protocols, obese and overweight do not seem to benefit greatly by these exercise training programs, as lack of time is thought to the main reason for not engaging in healthful physical exercise. Research evidence has proven that people with a body mass index of more than 30 kg/m2 and waist circumference of more than 102 cm have 2-fold higher risk of waking fewer steps daily. Although physical exercise is thought to be very helpful in regulating the body weight, it is very important to identify the type of physical activity to effectively manage overweight and obesity. Aerobic exercise namely high intensity interval training have been reported to reduce the body mass, fat%, and waist circumference. Investigators believe that high intensity interval training would help in controlling the various anthropometric variables namely the body mass index, waist circumference, and fat% in trunk region in physically inactive overweight adults.
The purpose of the study is to determine the frequency with which individual guideline recommendations on preoperative evaluation of patients scheduled for non-cardiac surgery are implemented as well as identifying the guidelines that are most frequently violated.
A multicenter, randomized, open-label, active controlled pragmatic clinical trial that evaluates the safety and efficacy of S (+) -ketamine for postoperative acute pain in adults in perioperative settings.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the potential for MDW and other CPD parameters (measured with CBC-DIFF) to identify COVID-19 diseased adult individuals presenting to the hospital with symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 or respiratory infection and whose standard of care includes CBC-DIFF and microbial testing.
This project seeks to test whether people maintain essentialistic beliefs about food (foods as having immutable underlying 'essences' that contribute to the food's attributes and properties). Currently, there are studies on essentialistic beliefs on topics such as: race, genes, and natural objects. However, there is limited research applying the concept of essentialism to food. In addition, in food studies, participants' perception and acceptability of foods were being explored but what remains unknown is whether they have any degree of essentialistic beliefs towards food which influences their perception and acceptability of food. Therefore, the aim of this study is to gain in-depth knowledge and understanding on whether people maintain essentialistic beliefs about food, and determine whether these beliefs may be associated with attitudes and expectations of foods that vary in their levels of processing.