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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Lifestyle change"”.
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Understanding the barriers to lifestyle change in the SPHERE study
… of coronary heart disease, which include a lifestyle of regular physical activity and a healthy diet, are known to improve life expectancy. However, adherence to recommended lifestyle changes is difficult for many patients. The aim of this thesis was to explore lifestyle change interventions …
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Evaluation of a Participant Co-designed Lifestyle Change Program for Youth
… Therefore, it is important to promote healthier lifestyles in youths and encourage their caregivers(s) to provide a healthy lifestyle environment. The PowerHouse program focuses on improving food choices, increasing physical activity, and adopting behavior changes for the reduction of obesity and …
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Influential Factors Contributing to Exercise Compliance Following a Structured Lifestyle Change Program
… offer programs that focus on the requisite lifestyle changes for participants to maintain long-term exercise programs. In an effort to determine what factors contribute to long-term exercise compliance, this study surveyed 279 participants of the Scripps Ornish/Healing Hearts program, a …
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Primary Care Providers' Provision Of Therapeutic Lifestyle Change Counseling For Patients With Cardiovascular Risk
… especially those related to therapeutic lifestyle changes (TLC). TLC represents a host of healthy behaviors, such as physical activity and healthy nutrition, that have shown to provide benefits in both preventing and managing cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, type 2 diabetes …
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An Evaluation of Clinician Perception of a Novel Lifestyle Change Prescription Form (LRx) in Wales, UK.
… in Wales, UK to evaluate the usefulness of a lifestyle prescription form (L℞) for use by prescribing clinicians in both the primary and secondary health care settings in the Cwm Taf University Health Board, Wales, UK and to gauge clinician opinion on the use of such a novel material …
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Effect of Program Implementation Fidelity on Outcomes of the Lifestyle Change Program Conducted through Distance Learning by Cooperative Extension
… with a focus on disseminating the evidence-based Lifestyle Change Program (LCP). This 12-month program consists of 26 lessons covering various topics related to goal setting, tracking food and physical activity, motivation, and support groups. Many organizations, including Cooperative Extension …
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Lifestyle and personality changes of participants on a commercial stress management programme
The lifestyle and personality changes of 61 participants after a five day stress management programme were assessed. A pre-and post-programme lifestyle questionnaire was developed to investigate changes in areas covered on the programme: nutrition, fitness, health beliefs and behaviour, …
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Motivational Interviewing Group to Address Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors
… adverse health behaviors that were modifiable by lifestyle change. In order to create the manual, an extensive literature review was conducted in the areas of the prevalence of chronic illness in the United States, cardiovascular disease and associated health risk factors, motivational …
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Graphical interface for quantitative monitoring of 3D MRI data
… of cartilage for disease progression, effects of lifestyle change, and results of medical interventions. In particular, the dGEMRIC technique has been used. Prior dGEMRIC data have been two-dimensional. Magnetic resonance equipment can currently produce three-dimensional dGEMRIC data, but software …
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The Proposed Role of Positivity Resonance in Building Social Resources to Address Physical Activity Declines Across Adulthood
… by expanding upon the upward spiral theory of lifestyle change (Black et al., 1996; Westerterp, 2018a, 2018b). The theory posits that when individuals experience positive emotions during health behaviors such as physical activity, it can contribute to the broaden-and-build effect by building …
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On the environmental factors that alleviate relocation stress syndrome in residents of long-term care facilities
… "Moving to a nursing home entails a complete lifestyle change, the trauma of which is compounded when the patient is ill or in pain and the move is unanticipated" (Morse, 2000, p. 24AAA). I have researched reasons why seniors relocate to long-term care facilities in order to better understand …
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Formative research for the development of an appropriate, acceptable and feasible intervention aimed at reducing type 2 diabetes risk in disadvantaged women after gestational diabetes in South Africa
… demonstrating that, in at-risk populations, lifestyle change can reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and among women with GDM, continuation of lifestyle changes after a GDM pregnancy can prevent progression to type 2 diabetes. Understanding women's lived experiences and views around …
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Diet and/or exercise treatment for weight loss in overweight and obese women after childbirth
… of 29 interviews were also made. RESULTS: Weight changes (kg) after the intervention and 1-year follow-up, respectively, were -8.3 ± 4.2 and -10.2 ± 5.7 in D, -2.4 ± 3.2 and -2.7 ± 5.9 in E, -6.9 ± 3.0 and -7.3 ± 6.3 in DE, and -0.8 ± 3.0 and -0.9 ± 6.6 in C. The main effects of D, but not of E, …
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Child and Family Responses to Weight Management Programs : A Qualitative Investigation
… needs during the process of developing healthy lifestyle behaviors.</p> <p><strong>Discussion:</strong>The results of this study indicates that parents, children and siblings in families in which one of the children are in a weight management program experience various stressors and sufferings …
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An exploration of interventions for supported self-management and behaviour change delivered as routine clinical care for people living with long-term health conditions.
… The first-line treatment for such conditions is lifestyle change, including weight loss, smoking cessation and increasing physical activity. Current NHS policy emphasises that people should be supported to self-manage and yet there is sparse information available about how to achieve this in …
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Implementing a Diabetic Education Program at Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii Kaua'i Community Health Center
… education class in order to assist them in lifestyle change management. Participants’ HbA1c levels were collected before and post completion of the diabetic education program. Data analysis focused on comparing the baseline and post implementation A1c levels in order to explore any changes …
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A Complex Disease with Complex Discourse: Exploring the Online Messaging of Two Canadian Obesity Charities and the Implications for Weight Stigma
… emphasizes parental responsibility and lifestyle change, upholding individualistic and oversimplistic explanations of obesity (O’Hara and Gregg 2006; Salas 2015). While this study draws upon past research about obesity discourse and weight stigma, it is the first of its kind to explore …
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