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Filter by:Obesity has more than doubled worldwide since 1980. The challenge with obesity, as with many other modern diseases, is that the solution may not rely on the medical side of the chain but rather on the individual via modifiable factors and behavioral changes such as eating habits and physical activity. The main goals of Healthy Eating Promotion with Self-regulation (HEP-S) are to design, implement, and evaluate the efficacy of an online intervention that promotes healthy eating among elementary school children using narratives involving self-regulation themes and skills. Self-regulation (SR) refers to the processes that allow individuals to proactively control the personal, behavioral, and environmental influences that impact their behavior, including eating. The focus of this project is not on delivering knowledge per se about healthy eating but rather on promoting and developing a set of transversal skills and strategies on the healthy habits' domain. We chose this focus because we recognized that beliefs about healthy eating have a stronger influence on eating behavior than factual knowledge about food. At the core of this intervention are the narratives, an important educational tool that favors child development; they allow readers to reflect on themselves and their behavior through the characters presented. Narratives also instigate the debate and the uncovering of different perspectives on how to cope with daily dilemmas. By using stories to initiate discussion and reflection, it is expected that a change of beliefs will occur, thus prompting a behavioral change. In today's world, there is an increasing need to dematerialise procedures so interventions can reach more people at a lower cost. Thus, it is important to test the feasibility of the online version of the intervention. Overall, it is expected that children taking part of the intervention will, at the end of the intervention, increase their use of SR strategies for healthy eating, enhance their sense of self-efficacy for healthy eating, and increase their consumption of healthy foods. Additionally, it is expected that their knowledge on the topic will increase, that their food preferences become healthier, and that they will display more positive perceptions and attitudes about the topic. Lastly, it is expected that participants enrolled in the enhanced-online-intervention group will be more engaged in the intervention than the online-intervention group.
The proposed project, Nutrition Ed, Access and Texting (NEAT): Combining the Hartford Mobile Market with e-Marketing , uses an e-technology social marketing strategy to promote use of a recently launched mobile produce market among SNAP-Ed recipients. This study will potentially increase fresh produce access and intake by combining an innovative food system change (produce mobile market) with existing SNAP-Ed nutrition education curriculum and the use of e-marketing technology.
Obesity is on the increase and black Africans in the United Kingdom (UK) make up a significant part of this population (32%). Weight retention after pregnancy is considered as one of the leading causes of obesity. African women living in high-income countries have been found to experience more weight retention after pregnancy than Caucasian women. Healthy eating guidelines have been provided in pregnancy in the UK (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) and midwives have been placed to provide healthy eating advice in pregnancy, but some studies have identified that African migrants in the UK often eat and prepare food in a different way to the traditional British approach. It has also been observed that the recommended advice for pregnant women, for example, the Eat well plate and start4life are focused on traditional British foods and cooking patterns and do not include food that would be familiar to African migrants. This may impact on the meaningfulness of such guidance to African women. Therefore, this research aims to understand what prevents healthy eating or makes healthy eating easier for pregnant African migrant women in the UK. This would include understanding how healthy eating is interpreted, the cultural factors that are considered important in healthy eating, the current sources of nutrition information and midwives view on providing healthy eating advice to this population. Eligibility - Pregnant African migrant women (18 and above) attending ante-natal clinics in NHS hospital sites. - Midwives who provide ante-natal advice to pregnant Africans Where Study sites will be hospitals covered by the Epsom and St Helier University trust, London North West University Healthcare National Health Service (NHS) trust and the Lewisham & Greenwich NHS trusts. How: The study will involve one-on-one interviewing with pregnant women and midwives using hospital spaces provided by the hospital. Focus group discussions with midwives will be attempted depending on logistics. The interviews are expected to last about one hour to one and a half hours. Interview sessions will be audio-taped with the permission of the participants. Data collection is expected to last for 6 months.
The prevalence of obesity remains high in American children aged 2-5 while one in three Head Start children is overweight or obese. The proposed study is designed to test the efficacy of an early childhood obesity prevention program which promotes healthy growth in predominantly Latino children in Head Start. The program is a group clustered randomized controlled trial in partnership with two local Head Start organizations to address key enablers and barriers in obesity prevention in young children. The study has three specific aims: 1. To test the efficacy of the Miranos! intervention on healthy weight growth (primary outcome) in normal weight, overweight, and obese children. 2. To test the impact of the Miranos! intervention on children's physical activity, sedentary behavior, sleep, and dietary behaviors (secondary outcomes). 3. To evaluate cost-effectiveness of the Miranos! intervention. Miranos! will be delivered in Fall and Spring (8 months) and followed by a summer health campaign.
Healthful eating is a core component of a healthy lifestyle that is associated with lower risk of obesity and chronic disease. Although adolescent health promotion programs have been extensively evaluated and applied in English-speaking Western developed nations, there is very little published literature in the Russian context. Our study seeks to determine the relative effectiveness of a healthy lifestyle intervention consisting of nutrition education at a Russian camp. Investigators will determine the impact of behaviorally focused nutrition education on nutrition knowledge, food choice, attitude, and self-efficacy for healthful eating, compared to standard nutrition education.
The goals of the study are to develop smoking cessation intervention using lay health worker (LHW) outreach and family involvement targeting Vietnamese Americans ages 18 and above in Santa Clara County, CA, to evaluate efficacy of the proposed intervention. The study is a two-arm randomized controlled trial targeting a total of 18 lay health workers (LHW) and 108 dyads of a smoker and a family member from the same household. The hypotheses are: H. At 6-month post initiation of the intervention, Vietnamese male daily smokers who receive the proposed ―Quit Smoking For a Healthy Family Intervention, a Family-based Intervention (FI), will be more likely to achieve biochemically verified 7-day point prevalence of smoking abstinence when compared to those receiving an attention control intervention (CI). H2. At 6-month, FI participants we be more likely to report making at least one 24-hour quit attempt than those in CI. H3. At 6-month, FI participants will be more likely to report using a recommended evidence-based smoking cessation resource (quitline, FDA-approved smoking cessation medications, advice from health professionals) than those in CI
The objective of this Phase II research is to evaluate the effectiveness of a population-based, individually tailored multiple health behavior change program for exercise, healthy eating, and stress management in a randomized trial including approximately 1,500 college students.