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Filter by:The overall objective of this in-lab randomized controlled trial is to test the efficacy of multi-day interruptions in sedentary behavior vs. single bouts of sustained exercise on metabolic, cognitive, affective, and cardiac autonomic nervous system responses in children with overweight and obesity who are at risk for type 2 diabetes. The use of continuous glucose monitoring will provide insight into the daily and cumulative metabolic effects of each condition that have thus far not been studied. In-lab studies demonstrating sustained efficacy of this approach in ameliorating negative effects of sedentary behaviors in children are necessary for the optimization of field-based interventions. Given the lack of success of interventions to prevent obesity-related diseases and increasing rates of type 2 diabetes in children and its related healthcare costs, this study addresses a critical public health need by testing of novel intervention strategies to reduce obesity-related diseases in children with overweight and obesity.
Millions of Americans have diabetes or prediabetes, for which regular physical activity can reduce risks of unfavorable outcomes of these conditions. This study will test the effects of an evidence-based intervention in the primary care setting on increasing physical activity among these individuals. If effective, it can be broadly implemented in primary care.
Women will participate in a workshop within a group and individual meetings. the workshop will include providing information regarding guidelines for healthy eating, engaging in physical activity, personal training tools to build self-efficacy and to encourage implementing a healthy life style.
Health care decisions should include patients' health outcome goals and care preferences so as to enable a unified set of individualized patient outcome goals, rather than disparate disease-specific goals that do not reflect patient choice and commitment. This study utilizes a skilled professional interview and a simple tablet-based tool to enable patient choice of health behavior goals. The tool guides the patient to choose a specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time-based (SMART) goal. The hypothesis of this study is that the implementation this patient choice tool will increase the likelihood of patient adherence to the goal and increase patient self efficacy.
Cardiovascular disease is the second major cause of death for women in Israel and the leading cause of death among women worldwide. Women have higher mortality rates after a coronary or cerebrovascular event compared to men, and receive less attention for prevention and treatment of heart disease. The risk factors for heart disease among women in Israel are high: 53% of women in the State of Israel are overweight or obese and 48% of women do not exercise. Increasing physical activity can lower the risk of developing cardiovascular disease in women. The literature suggests that even minor changes in behavior can reduce the morbidity, mortality and costs to the health care system. Pedometers have proven to be an effective tool for increasing physical activity, and have the potential to create change in health habits. The pedometer measures steps and is a simple measure that gives an estimate of the extent of exercise in terms of steps. The device is simple and user-friendly and serves as an indicator of movement as a result of health choices. The literature shows that when pedometers are integrated into a support program, they provide an incentive to increase physical activity. Supporting software includes, among other things - choosing personal goals, close tracking, and self-tracking and re balancing systems. "Implementation intention" is a strategy in the form of an "if-then plan" that can increase the likelihood of attaining one's goals. It is different than specifying a goal intentions as it specifies the when, where and how portions of goal-directed behavior. This study seeks to compare the increase in steps in participants randomly assigned in a 2:2:1 allocation to a goal-setting pedometer intervention, a goal-setting plus implementation intentions pedometer intervention vs pedometer only.
The investigators hypothesize that cycling for 1 hour of exercise at 65% peak oxygen consumption (VO2peak) after sitting >13 hr/day (SIT+EX) will not be different in postprandial plasma insulin responses compared to the control of only sitting (SIT). Furthermore, the investigators hypothesize that the SIT and SIT+EX groups will have a less favorble insulin response compared to the physically active group after performing the same 1-hour exercise bout (ACTIVE+EX).
The recent literature has highlighting the importance of the time of inactivity and the level of physical activity (PA) as predictors of metabolic cardio risks. Now, sedentary lifestyles are well recognized as one of the causes of mortality. As with physical activity, a dose-response relationship appears to exist: mortality would increase with time spent in sedentary behaviors. However, this relationship would not be linear: the more the daily sitting time increases, the more the consequences on mortality are important. It is now well demonstrated that time spent in sedentary adult behaviour finds primarily its origin in the work, characterized by prolonged and uninterrupted periods of sitting. Many strategies have been settled to break the prolonged sitting time. The most promising one seem to be the use of active workstations (treadmill, cycling, stepping) because they reduce sedentary time at work and increase physical activity with positive effects on the global health. If active workstations have demonstrated their effectiveness with overweight or obese people by increasing daily energy expenditure, their interest in prevention in normal weight people is less known. In addition, the long-term effectiveness of a program of reactivation by active workstation on biological parameters, quantitative and qualitative time of sedentary behaviour (duration, number of breaks) and physical fitness was not assessed. The main objective of this project is to study the effects of the use of a cycling workstation for 60 minutes per day (30 minutes twice a day) for 3 months among professionals with an office-sitting desk on overall quantity of physical activity time (work and non-work) and sedentary time.
This is an interventional study that will examine how sedentary behavior (decreased physical inactivity) over time affects cardiovascular health (i.e. heart rate and blood pressure) and sleep quality/duration.
Physical Activity (PA) is recognized as the most effective method to prevent falls in the elderly. Yet despite there being a consensus now that Physical Activity (PA) is effective in practice, there remain many obstacles to participation and attendance resulting in Physical Activity (PA) approaches designed to prevent falls actually only benefiting a limited number of elderly subjects. Social marketing has already shown its utility in the construction of prevention programs.
This study would investigate the effects of forming action plans on a reduction of sedentary behaviors. Participants will be randomly assigned to either active control group (education on sedentary behaviors and physical activity) or the intervention group (forming action plans referring to replacing sedentary activities with physical activity. The effects of the intervention will be evaluated at the 2-month follow-up and at the 8-month follow-up.