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Filter by:The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of the Mole's Veggie Adventures mobile application in increasing fruit and vegetable acceptance among 3-6-year-olds.
The primary purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of the combined effects of meal variety and portion size on food intake at a meal. The study will also explore relationships with eating microstructure such as eating rate and bite size. Additionally, other individual characteristics will be examined for their influence on the effects of variety and portion size on meal intake.
The #KindGirlsInACTion project started in 2017 and developed and implemented a psychotherapeutic intervention program in Portuguese female adolescents. This program aimed to improve the overall quality of life and well-being of the participants, and specifically to promote a qualitative improvement in body image and interpersonal relationships, through the promotion of self-compassion, compassion and psychological flexibility. #KindGirlsInACTion is a school-based program, with 9 sessions over 9 weeks. It is essentially practical and interactive, with exercises created specifically for the program, as well as the regular practice of mindfulness.
The research proposal will be an 8-week randomized control trial (RCT) to examine the efficacy of an eHealth intervention, namely Healthy Parental Online Education (HOPE), on fruit and vegetable intake and active playtime among toddlers enrolled in early head start programs in Lubbock, Texas. Parents with toddlers ages one to three years will be recruited from Early Head Start centers. Written consent forms will be obtained before baseline data collection. The participants will be then randomly assigned to the intervention or control group. The participants in the intervention group will receive a multi-component online nutrition intervention for eight weeks. While the control group will receive a copy of the booklet that includes the 2020 U.S. Department of Agriculture Dietary Guidelines (USDA) for toddlers and adults. The investigators will measure sociodemographic, parental nutritional knowledge, parental attitude related to healthy eating, parental self-efficacy, parental feeding practices, carotenoids in the skin of both parents and toddlers, three-day food photos, and physical activity and sedentary times of toddlers. This research proposal hypothesizes that there will be significant differences in fruit and vegetable intake and physically active time among toddlers between the intervention and control group from baseline to 3 months. The investigators also hypothesize that there will be significant differences in parental nutrition knowledge, attitude, self-efficacy, and feeding practice between the intervention and control group from baseline to 3 months.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used for a group of techniques in which there is a combination of a cognitive approach and a set of behavioral procedures. The basic principle of CBT can be described as follows: emotional and behavioral responses, as well as motivation, are not directly influenced by situations, but by the way in which these situations are usually processed. The worker is any person who has a work activity, regardless of being inserted in the formal or informal market. And, nightshift work, due to its wide application and demand, for technical, social and economic reasons is a topic of great relevance today. However, it can lead to health risks, both in biological and psychological functioning, among other emotional problems, causing greater propensity to stress, anxiety crisis and emotional tiredness. In the food and nutrition units, where the organization of work is strongly guided by Taylorist-Fordist principles, structured based on routines, technical standards and organization charts for the meals production, giving attention and dedication to the behaviors and habits of employees, become some strategies for maintaining and improving motivation for work and quality of life in this environment. Objective: to evaluate the effects of an intervention to change eating behavior on the perception of quality of life and eating habits of night workers in food and nutrition units. Method: This is a research project, involving a systematic review (study I) and a clinical trial (study II). The systematic review aim to investigate whether there is a difference in eating behavior between workers, the one that works during the day and the other at night. The second study will consist of two groups; one control and one intervention. The research will consist on a web-based strategies, with two evaluative moments, before and after intervention. To assess the eating behavior outcome, the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ) will be used; for eating practices, the Self-Applicable Scale for Food Assessment will be included, according to the Recommendations of the Food Guide for the Brazilian Population. For analysis of quality of life, the WHOQOL-Bref, short version of the WHOQOL-100 instrument, will be used.
This study aims to assess the effect of physical activity on food intake and appetite in older adults (≥ 65 years) and to investigate the relationship between older adults' eating behaviours, body composition and physical activity.
Approximately 15 million women of reproductive age women in the United States have overweight or obesity and use the combined estrogen and progestin oral contraceptive pill (COC). Although many women report weight gain as a side effect of COCs, a conclusive link between COC use and weight gain has not been established. This investigation will address a major gap in the literature by prospectively evaluating the influence of initiating a COC versus non-hormonal contraceptives (NHCs) on weight, body composition, eating behaviors, and appetite in pre-menopausal women with overweight or obesity. Aim 1 will assess the feasibility of recruiting and retaining a racially/ethnically diverse group of women with overweight and obesity while Aim 2 will explore changes in body weight, body composition, and cardiometabolic risks in these women; Aim 3 will explore changes in dietary and macronutrient energy intake, eating behaviors, and appetite in this subset of women. This research will help the investigators understand the extent to which COCs are associated with weight gain and help guide medical providers in counseling women with overweight and obesity on appropriate contraceptive methods.
Project ASSET will explore the preliminary efficacy of interpersonal therapy, when compared with cognitive behavioral therapy, for reducing anxiety symptoms, preventing excess weight gain, and reducing cardio-metabolic risk in adolescent girls with above-average weight and elevated anxiety. As a pilot for a larger multi-site study, this trial will also test multi-site feasibility, acceptability, and intervention fidelity.
Purpose: Research on intuitive eating is growing, but there are few interventions demonstrating the effect of learning to eat intuitively for people with disordered eating. Young women in particular are at high-risk for developing disordered eating. This study aimed to test the outcomes of a novel intuitive eating intervention for young women with disordered eating. Methods: This study is the first randomized controlled trial introducing intuitive eating to a sample of participants with disordered eating. Participants with current eating disorders were excluded from this study. Women (n=123) ages 18-30 with high levels of disordered eating participated in this study and were randomized to either a treatment (10-week web-based intervention) or control group (10-week waitlist).
It has been described in obese individuals in which decreased basal metabolism as well as dopaminergic changes in the prefrontal cortex and striatum parallels the increased activation of reward brain regions in response to delicious food cues. Our aim is to explore different neurobehavioral dimensions of food choices and motivational processes in the light of this information, and to reveal whether these behaviors can be changed by operant conditioning with neuroimaging methods for phenotypes at risk.