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Filter by:Fall is one of the most common causes of ill health and morbidity in the older population. In Sweden about 300 000 people/year seek emergency treatment due to falls and out of these 1600 dies. Poor balance control leads to a sedentary life with muscle weakness, fear of falling and an increased risk for falls. Balance training and physical activity have positive effects on fall prevention and balance, but long-term follow-ups are limited. There is also a gap between what has been proven to be efficient in research and what is performed in communities and clinical settings. Many studies reports on the efficacy of certain treatment, method or training program, which often may have taken years to develop, but few of these results are taken further into clinical practice and it may take years for them to come into daily use. This delay means that there is a gap between what is known and what is consistently done. It if of importance implement methods that have been proven to have beneficial impact on health and physical function in a clinical trial. Furthermore to evaluate which strategies for implementation that are of significance. The aim of this study is to implement evidence based balance training into clinical practice to prevent future falls and fall-related injuries in older adults. The program has been proven to be efficient, but not yet been implemented in the community and clinical settings. Implementation outcomes will include effectiveness, acceptability, feasibility, fidelity, cost and sustainability. Outcome variables on individual level will be fall-related concerns, balance performance, physical function and activity, health related quality of life and number of falls. The investigators foresee that this balance training for older adults will prevent future falls and fall related injuries, increase physical activity level, health related quality of life and provide the participants with a strategy to be able to have a physically active and healthy life style.
The objective of this study is to validate the prototype of the WeTakeCare- system in the real environment (=end users homes) and is embedded in Work-Package 4 (validation and evaluation) with the following main tasks: T4.1. Definition of methodologies and protocols T4.2. First validation: concept assessment T4.3. Second validation: functional assessment T4.4. Third validation: real environment T4.5. Final check Within the validation phase III of our project the investigators want to validate the contents of our fitness and information software WeTakeCare with the target group: elderly and their unprofessional caregivers. It runs on the Microsoft Kinect-System, which is authorised in Switzerland, and is in accordance with the prescribing information. The fitness- and information software contains information about strategies and devices which are available in case an older person is not able to perform the everyday movements in a safe and easy way. Aim of the training and information software is to support elderly to stay independent from others help as long as possible. The mentioned software is not a medical or therapeutical treatment or a medical or therapeutical product. Performed exercises or presented information are highly regarded in the interest of safety and protection of the participants, and serves to prevent physical restrictions or damage . There is only minimal risk or burden for the participants; the contents of the intervention itself (training of basic motor skills, instruction of strategies and the use of assistive devices to (partly) compensate restrictions in ADL performance, enablement of caregivers) are a standard in rehabilitation of elderly. The investigators expect the start of the third validation in October 2015.
The effect of elasticity Belly® oil and Clarins® Tonic Body Treatment Oil in prevention of striae gravidarum: A randomized controlled clinical trial.
The study proposes to evaluate a patient navigation intervention among a sample of 446 individuals referred for CT-based lung cancer screening in an urban safety-net setting.
The purpose of this study is to assess the psychometric properties of a brief screening questionnaire for alcohol problems among 9- to 18-year-old patients in pediatricians' offices, and to pilot test a personalized, computer-facilitated brief intervention delivered on a tablet computer and by the provider based on screening results.
Get in the GROOVE! will address health disparities impacting underserved youth. Given the alarming rate of overweight and obesity among high school minority youth, the project will focus on middle school with the primary aim of reaching middle school girls before unhealthy habits become firmly ingrained. The primary aim of the research project is to investigate the impact of two types of summer science enrichment programs (that focus on health and wellness) on middle school girls' self-efficacy, health knowledge, health behaviors, and interest in science. One program will present the curriculum by conventional means (GROOVE condition) while the second program will include the addition of a closed 3-D virtual world environment to reinforce concepts (GROOVE+ condition). The following hypotheses will be tested in the randomized controlled trial: 1. Upon completion of the summer program, the enhanced summer program GROOVE+ relative to the conventional summer program will result in a) increased self-efficacy for adopting healthy behavior change; b) increased health knowledge; c) enhanced science self-concept; and e) more positive behavior change (e.g., improved nutrition, increased physical activity). 2. At follow-up, the enhanced summer program relative to the conventional summer program will result in further and/or sustained improvements in positive behavior health behaviors and attitudes.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy (Immunogenicity) and Safety of Euvichol in Healthy Adults and Children.
It is known that diet and physical affect a variety of disease-related endpoints and overall health status in general. The investigators also know that dietary and PA intervention effects are difficult for individuals to maintain. By contrast, the investigators have some evidence that group-based and family-centered, multi-component interventions are more effective in terms of creating large changes in diet-related outcomes. Using a group-randomized, controlled design, the overall goal of this project is to reduce breast cancer-related health disparities in a high-risk community, by achieving these Primary Aims,to conduct a regionally-based community-designed dietary and physical activity behavioral controlled trial among AA women,to test the effectiveness of the community-designed, family-based dietary and physical activity behavioral intervention on modifying biomarkers of inflammation and to test the effectiveness of the community-designed, family-based dietary and physical activity behavioral intervention on decreasing breast density
The primary goal of the proposed research is to assess the effectiveness of the Adolescent Depression Awareness Program (ADAP), a school-based depression education program, in increasing depression literacy and treatment seeking in high school students. The ADAP intervention will be carried out in approximately 60 schools with over 15,000 students. The following are ADAP Implementation Sites: Baltimore Archdiocese High Schools; New Castle County, Delaware; Washtenaw County, Michigan; and York County, Pennsylvania.
The proposed study has the following aims: (a) to assess the concomitant and longitudinal links between sleep and cognitive, behavioral and emotional functioning in kindergarten children; (b) to assess the immediate and the long-term effects of an intervention to promote healthy sleep habits (HSI) on the child's evolving sleep patterns, as well as on related cognitive, behavioral and health domains; (c) to assess the immediate and the long-term effects of an intervention deigned to promote healthy nutrition (HNI) on the eating habits of children, their weight and BMI measures (the comparison/control group) and (d) to assess the links between eating habits and sleep in kindergarten children. The main hypotheses of the proposed study are: (a) Shorter and more disrupted sleep would be concomitantly and longitudinally associated with compromised cognitive, emotional and behavioral functioning in kindergarten children; (b) In comparison to the HNI group, children in the HSI group will extend their total sleep time, improve their sleep quality and their sleep schedule will be more stable following the intervention; (c) improvement in sleep habits will be associated with improvement in cognitive, emotional and behavioral functioning; (d) in comparison to the HIS group, children in the HNI group will improve their eating habits, engage in more physical activities and better manage to achieve and maintain an age-appropriate body weight.