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Health Behavior Change for Obesity Management

Obesity Facts, 2017
Health behavior change is central in obesity management. Due to its complexity, there has been a growing body of research on: i) the factors that predict the adoption and maintenance of health behaviors, ii) the development and testing of theories that ...
P. Teixeira, M. Marques
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Pulmonary Dysfunction Is Associated With Sleep Study Abnormalities in Children With Sickle Cell Disease: A Multicenter Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Pulmonary dysfunction and sleep abnormalities are common in children with sickle cell disease (SCD) and are associated with worse clinical outcomes. Whether spirometry abnormalities are associated with polysomnography (PSG) findings remains unclear.
Ammar Saadoon Alishlash, Anis Rabbani Nourani, A. K. M. Fazlur Rahman, Dima Ezmigna, Tarig Ali‐Dinar   +4 more
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Integrating Taxonomies into Theory-Based Digital Health Interventions for Behavior Change: A Holistic Framework

, 2018
Digital health interventions have been emerging in the last decade. Due to their interdisciplinary nature, digital health interventions are guided and influenced by theories (e.g., behavioral theories, behavior change technologies, persuasive technology)
Fadhil, Ahmed, Lange, Jan-Philipp, Reiterer, Harald, Wang, Yunlong   +3 more
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Munchausen by internet: current research and future directions. [PDF]

, 2012
The Internet has revolutionized the health world, enabling self-diagnosis and online support to take place irrespective of time or location. Alongside the positive aspects for an individual's health from making use of the Internet, debate has intensified
Alinejad, NA, Andy Pulman, Asher, R, Barak, A, Berners-Lee, T, Boehm, FH, Doescher, MP, Doherty, AM, Donath, JS, Eysenbach, G, Feldman, MD, Field, MG, Gavin, H, Jacqui Taylor, Joinson, A, Lipsitt, DR, Lurid, FB, Madden, M, Meadow, R, Mealy, M, Oltmanns, FT, Pearson, SD, Pulman, A, Recupero, PR, Resnick, PJ, Savino, AC, Shea, V, Sherman, M, Turkle, S   +28 more
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IDEAS (Integrate, Design, Assess, and Share): A Framework and Toolkit of Strategies for the Development of More Effective Digital Interventions to Change Health Behavior

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2016
Developing effective digital interventions to change health behavior has been a challenging goal for academics and industry players alike. Guiding intervention design using the best combination of approaches available is necessary if effective ...
S. Mummah, T. Robinson, A. King, C. Gardner, Stephen Sutton   +4 more
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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright, Morgan A. Paul, Selena Murcia Mendez, Emily Jones, Lucille Lokko, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Morgan Arnold, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Sandi L. Pruitt, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona, Puja J. Umaretiya   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multiple material need insecurities and severity of psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic among women who use drugs

BMC Public Health
Background The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the salience of material needs and financial precarity on mental health and distress. Women who use drugs (WWUD) experienced significant mental distress and multiple material need insecurities before the ...
Catherine Tomko, Laura Nicole Sisson, Katherine Haney, Emily Clouse, Natalie Flath, Noya Galai, Katherine C. Smith, Susan G. Sherman   +7 more
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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nutritional and health status of woolly monkeys [PDF]

, 2008
Woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha and L. flavicauda) are threatened species in the wild and in captivity. Numerous zoological institutions have historically kept Lagothrix lagotricha spp., but only a few of them have succeeded in breeding populations.
Ange-van Heugten, K.D., Jansen, W.L., Timmer, S., Verstegen, M.W.A.   +3 more
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Healthy through Habit: Interventions for Initiating & Maintaining Health Behavior Change

Behavioral Science & Policy, 2016
Interventions to change health behaviors have had limited success to date at establishing enduring healthy lifestyle habits. Despite successfully increasing people's knowledge and favorable intentions to adopt healthy behaviors, interventions typically ...
Wendy Wood, David T. Neal
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