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Filter by:The goal of this clinical trial was to investigate possible outcomes of the nutritional supplement magnesium compared to placebo in healthy, working adults. The main questions it aimed to answer were: - Are there differences in ratings of health, stress, well-being and work environment indicators between individuals intaking 375 mg magnesium (daily for 3 months) compared to placebo? - Are there differences in hearing, measured with hearing tests between those receiving 375 mg magnesium compared to placebo? Participants were asked to ingest 375 mg magnesium or placebo daily for 3 months. Researchers compared the group ingesting magnesium with the group ingesting placebo pills to see if there were any differences in for example self-rated health, recovery, wellbeing, etc.
Contact with nature promotes human wellbeing through diverse pathways, providing a potential way to support health especially in primary care, where patients commonly suffer from multimorbidity and poor general health. Social prescribing as a non-pharmaceutical treatment is a promising method to improve health as well as inclusion. This study explores and compares the effects of a nature based and an exercise based social prescribing scheme on mental wellbeing, physical activity and sleep, in a primary care population.
The aim of this study is to determine the effect of virtual reality-based exercise on the intervention and follow-up retention of functional fitness and quality of life among older adults.
Physical activity promotion remains a public health priority and accessible and scalable interventions are needed. Early career professionals are at-risk for inactivity and therefore a critical target for physical activity promotion. An online delivery format made up of web-based lessons and podcasts meets accessibility needs for this time-pressed population and has strong potential for reach. This study explores the feasibility of a theory-based intervention which accounts for action control, namely by leveraging the the Multi-Process Action Control framework (M-PAC) and targeting factors such as incidental affect (e.g., work-related stress) through emotion regulation strategies grounded in the principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. The primary objective of this study is to examine the feasibility and acceptability of a 6-week web-based physical activity behaviour change program for early career professionals. Primary outcomes include rates of recruitment, attention, adherence as well as study satisfaction and intervention acceptability. Secondary measures will include physical activity and emotion regulation. Additional measures will explore Multi-Process Action Control constructs, perceived stress, applied mindfulness, action and acceptance, and valued living.
The goal of this research is to evaluate the feasibility and self-reported health outcomes of functional medicine health coaching in elimination diets among clinicians receiving training in functional medicine. A randomized controlled clinical trial of a 5-session functional medicine coaching and elimination diet intervention will be conducted to achieve the purpose of this study. The research team hypothesizes that functional medicine health coaching to support the elimination diet will improve physical and mental health outcomes better than the control condition of a self-guided elimination diet.
This study will test the relative efficacy of high-risk messages in increasing flu shot rates in patients at moderately high risk for flu and complications (those in the top 11-20% of risk). It will also examine whether informing patients that their high-risk status was determined by analyzing their medical records or by an artificial intelligence (AI) / machine-learning (ML) algorithm analyzing their medical records will affect the likelihood of receiving a flu vaccine.
The purpose of this study is to test which modalities (mailed letter, short message service [SMS] text, or patient portal messages) are most effective for encouraging flu shots in high-risk patients.
The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of the Stress Management and Resilience Training (SMART) in increasing resilience in Air Force (AF) healthcare personnel. SMART includes practices that focus on six factors that promote individual-level resilience. A pretest-posttest, randomized control trial will be used to examine the effectiveness of SMART and is guided by the Defense Centers of Excellence Resilience Continuum. After institutional review board approval, the principal investigator (PI) will recruit a sample of AF healthcare personnel assigned to the 88th Medical Group or USAF School of Aerospace Medicine at Wright Patterson AF Base. SMART will be provided via either a two-hour, video teleconference (VTC) or in-person training or a self-paced, on-line version completed over four to eight weeks. VTC or on-line versions will be utilized to prevent transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2. If in-person training is feasible and safe at a future point in time, in-person training will replace VTC training. A baseline survey will include questions regarding age, gender, marital status, race, ethnicity, previous deployment, military rank, and military job duty. The Connor Davidson 10-Item Resilience Scale has demonstrated reliability and validity, and has been used in studies to measure service member resilience. Additional measures include the Perceived Stress Scale, Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale, and a Quality of Life measure. The CD-10, PSS, GAD-7, and QoL measure will be readministered 12, 18, and 24-weeks after SMART completion. Initial analysis will include descriptive statistics to characterize demographics, military grade, duty location, and previous deployment status. Cronbach's α will be calculated for each scale. Analyses will be reported as point estimates with 95% confidence intervals and estimates of effect size. Both VTC and on-line groups will be analyzed separately and scores will be pooled to test for overall intervention effects. The investigators will conduct regression models on the pre-post intervention difference while controlling for demographic characteristics and previous deployment. The investigators will consider clustering effects among participants from the same organizational unit using random effects. Changes in resilience, stress, anxiety, and QoL over time will be assessed by analyzing changes from baseline to weeks 12, 18, and 24. The investigators will consider a joint analysis of resilience, stress, anxiety, or QOL.
Randomized controlled trial by conglomerates whose objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational nutritional intervention, based on the Social Cognitive Theory, for the increase in the consumption of vegetables and fruits and the decrease in the consumption of ultra-processed foods in adolescent high school students, in the University of Guadalajara, in Guadalajara, Jalisco.
The BeE-school (Be Empowered in school) is a cluster-randomised trial that addresses the complexity of the social challenge (vulnerable school-age children). It aims to analyse the effectiveness of the intervention program, based on the promotion of health literacy and lifestyles, specifically on children's: 1-health literacy and infodemic resilience (Aim 1); 2- lifestyles (e.g. dietary intake, 24hmovement behaviour) (Aim 2); 3-overweight and obesity (Aim 3); 4-blood pressure (Aim 4). The project converges multiple disciplines (e.g. public health, informatics, law) and researchers with proven expertise in these fields to provide comprehensive and innovative answers. 478 children (6 schools) aged 6-12years old will participate in this cluster-randomised trial, having schools as the unit of randomisation, assigned into intervention (239-3schools) and the control arm (239 - 3 schools). This project will perform a social listening (online and offline) and bottom-up approach to tackling NCDs, focusing on health literacy and health promotion and recognising children's systems in daily life (e.g. family, teachers). Stakeholders' involvement goes far beyond a merely consultative approach; the researchers are committed to a genuine codevelopment process. Data collection includes sociodemographics, health literacy and infodemic resilience, dietary intake and children's 24-h movement behaviour (e.g. accelerometry), anthropometry (e.g. weight, height and waist circumference) and blood pressure. Data collection will occur at baseline and after the intervention (follow-up, 6 months after the beginning of the intervention). Expected outputs and outcomes include the creation of a model for characterising NCDs and health topics based on artificial intelligence techniques (e.g. deep learning, and social network analysis methods); improved health literacy and infodemic resilience of children, families and teachers; enhanced children's lifestyles (e.g. dietary intake, 24-h movement behaviour); reduction of NCDs' physical risk factors (e.g. overweight, raised blood pressure); feasible intervention program about health promotion and NCDs' prevention for school-aged children with vulnerabilities, and advocacy- policies about health promotion and NCDs' prevention.