RE-AIM analysis of a randomized school-based nutrition intervention among fourth-grade classrooms in California
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Childhood overweight and obesity are major health problems. School-based programs enable intervening with large groups of children, but program overall health impact is rarely completely assessed. A RE-AIM (Reach, Efficacy, Adoption, Implementation, Maintenance) analysis tested the overall public health impact of the fourth-grade “Nutrition Pathfinders” school-based nutrition-education program. A randomized controlled trial in 47 fourth-grade California classrooms (1713 students) tested program efficacy, and a secondary analysis of archival data tested program dissemination. Desired effects w...
Source: Translational Behavioral Medicine - March 11, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
News from NIH: a center for translation research and implementation science
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Source: Translational Behavioral Medicine - March 4, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
News from CDC: applying a life course approach to primary cancer prevention
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Source: Translational Behavioral Medicine - February 24, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Bridging the gap between research and practice: an assessment of external validity of community-based physical activity programs in Bogotá, Colombia, and Recife, Brazil
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For more than a decade, physical activity classes have been offered in public places at no cost to the participants in some Latin American cities, however, internal and external validity evidence of these programs is limited. The goals of this study were to assess, report, and compare the external validity of the Recreovia program (RCP) in Colombia, and the Academia da Cidade program (ACP) in Brazil. Interviews to assess external validity of the RCP and ACP were conducted in 2012. The interview guide was developed based on the RE-AIM framework. Seventeen key informants were selected to particip...
Source: Translational Behavioral Medicine - February 20, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Systematic review of health branding: growth of a promising practice
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Brands are marketing tools that create mental representations in the minds of consumers about products, services, and organizations. Brands create schema that help consumers decide whether to initiate or continue use of a product or service. Health branding determines behavioral choice by building consumer relationships and identification with health behaviors and their benefits. Health branding can be measured by the associations individuals form with health behaviors. In 2008, Evans and colleagues systematically reviewed the literature on health brands, reported on branded health messages and...
Source: Translational Behavioral Medicine - February 20, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Scientific collaboration and team science: a social network analysis of the centers for population health and health disparities
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The past decade has seen dramatic shifts in the way that scientific research is conducted as networks, consortia, and large research centers are funded as transdisciplinary, team-based enterprises to tackle complex scientific questions. Key investigators (N = 167) involved in ten health disparities research centers completed a baseline social network and collaboration readiness survey. Collaborative ties existed primarily between investigators from the same center, with just 7 % of ties occurring across different centers. Grants and work groups were the most common types of ties between in...
Source: Translational Behavioral Medicine - February 20, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Enabling lay providers to conduct CBT for older adults: key steps for expanding treatment capacity
This article describes training and supervision procedures in a recent clinical trial of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for older adults with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) delivered by bachelor-level lay providers (BLPs) and to Ph.D.-level expert providers (PLPs). Supervision and training differences, ratings by treatment integrity raters (TIRs), treatment characteristics, and patient perceptions between BLPs and PLPs are examined. The training and supervision procedures for BLPs led to comparable integrity ratings, patient perceptions, and treatment characteristics compared with PLPs. These results support this t...
Source: Translational Behavioral Medicine - February 10, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Translating evidence-based interventions from research to practice: challenges and lessons learned
This study outlines several essential factors related to Glasgow’s RE-AIM model that need to be considered in order to accomplish successful translation of evidence-based interventions from traditional academia to “real-world” community health center settings. (Source: Translational Behavioral Medicine)
Source: Translational Behavioral Medicine - February 4, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Tweet for health: using an online social network to examine temporal trends in weight loss-related posts
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Few studies have used social networking sites to track temporal trends in health-related posts, particularly around weight loss. To examine the temporal relationship of Twitter messages about weight loss over 1 year (2012). Temporal trends in #weightloss mentions and #fitness, #diet, and #health tweets which also had the word “weight” in them were examined using three a priori time periods: (1) holidays: pre-winter holidays, holidays, and post-holidays; (2) Season: winter and summer; and (3) New Year’s: pre-New Year’s and post-New Year’s. Regarding #weightloss, there were 145 (95 % CI...
Source: Translational Behavioral Medicine - January 29, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Implementing an evidence-based breast cancer support and communication tool to newly diagnosed patients as standard care in two institutions
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While many women turn to the Internet to obtain health information, it is unlikely that unstructured Internet use provides optimal benefit to women newly diagnosed with breast cancer, due to uneven quality, conflicting claims, redundancy, and search engine idiosyncrasies, which may make finding information and assessing its accuracy and applicability difficult. To answer the need for information and support, the Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System (CHESS) was developed to provide access to integrated information for decision-making, behavior change, and emotional support, and has been...
Source: Translational Behavioral Medicine - January 27, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Theory-based approach for maintaining resistance training in older adults with prediabetes: adherence, barriers, self-regulation strategies, treatment fidelity, costs
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Effectively preventing and treating chronic diseases through health behavior changes often require intensive theory- and evidence-based intervention including long-term maintenance components. We assessed the efficacy of theory-based maintenance approaches varying by dose for persistently performing resistance training (RT) with the hypothesis that a higher-dose social cognitive theory (SCT) approach would produce greater RT adherence than lower-dose Standard. The Resist-Diabetes study first established 2×/week resistance training (RT) in a 3-month supervised intervention in older (50–69 year...
Source: Translational Behavioral Medicine - January 27, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Engaging veterans with substance abuse disorders into a research trial: success with study branding, networking, and presence
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Recruiting and retaining clients in health interventions can be challenging especially when targeting multiple behavior change in high-risk populations. To inform the methods of trials working with similarly complex clinical populations, we describe multi-pronged efforts to recruit and retain a representative sample. In a two-group RCT, veterans were recruited from a Veteran Affairs Medical Center. The goal was to enroll 200 participants over a 25-month period, and to exceed 70 % follow-up for all treatment arms. To meet these goals, a four-pronged strategy was developed: branding, outreach/netw...
Source: Translational Behavioral Medicine - January 24, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Network analysis of RE-AIM framework: chronology of the field and the connectivity of its contributors
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The reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, and maintenance (RE-AIM) framework has been widely used for translational research. We used social network analysis (SNA) to explore how innovative research frameworks, such as RE-AIM, have diffused over time in academic literature. A structured literature review was conducted on RE-AIM between 1999 and 2012. SNA indices of degree score, betweenness, centrality, and authorship ties were used to examine use of RE-AIM. Use of RE-AIM has grown since its inception and spread from a few research centers to use internationally. Investigation of co-aut...
Source: Translational Behavioral Medicine - December 19, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Decisional outcomes following use of an interactive web-based decision aid for prostate cancer screening
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Informed decision-making tools are recommended for men considering prostate cancer screening. We evaluated the extent to which use of an interactive, web-based decision aid was associated with decisional and screening outcomes. Participants (N = 253) were 57 (7.0) years old and completed telephone interviews at baseline, 1 month, and 13 months post-baseline. Tracking software captured minutes spent on the website (median = 33.9), sections viewed (median = 4.0/5.0), testimonials viewed (median = 4.0/6.0), and values clarification tool (VCT) use (77.3 %). In multivariable ana...
Source: Translational Behavioral Medicine - December 16, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Disseminating results: community response and input on Kisumu breastfeeding study
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Communicating findings to study participants and their communities is a practice that often gets overlooked or receives low prioritization by research investigators, but is crucially important. The purpose of this study was to describe the process and community response to the dissemination of results from the Kisumu Breastfeeding Study (KiBS), specifically in terms of (1) community research knowledge and expectations and (2) impressions of result dissemination efforts. A qualitative evaluation was completed for 10 result dissemination events using focus group discussions (FGDs) (n = 10; tota...
Source: Translational Behavioral Medicine - December 16, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
