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Providing Community-Centered Culinary Medicine-Based Patient Education
Published in Nicole M. Farmer, Andres Victor Ardisson Korat, Cooking for Health and Disease Prevention, 2022
Kofi Essel, Graciela Caraballo
First, meet families where they are: It is essential that we work with staff to ensure messaging is consistent, evidence-based, and takes into account families’ lived experiences. Team members must meet families where they are and walk alongside them on their journey, allowing them to be the authors of their own story. Families often differ in their priorities and face unique barriers to healthy eating. Adapting the lessons to directly respond to what matters most to them is a more effective way to challenge misconceptions and encourage long-lasting behavioral change. The same holds true in the kitchen, make sure participants know that recipes are guidelines, not rulebooks, and empower them to be flexible and use the resources at their disposal.
Shaping built environments for community health
Published in Ben Y.F. Fong, Martin C.S. Wong, The Routledge Handbook of Public Health and the Community, 2021
Individual behaviour is transactional in nature with the environment as a consequence of repeating cycles of reciprocal or mutual influence (King et al., 2002). Models of health behaviour change, maintain the importance of the effect of the internal and social environment on health behaviour, and despite the acknowledgement of mutual influencer, the significance of the built environment is less conspicuous (Sallis et al., 2006). Increasingly, more comprehensive understandings as to the reciprocal relationship between the built environment and community health are being presented (Nykiforuk et al., 2013; Schulz et al., 2018). More work however is needed to understand how these relations play out in the social ecologies of people’s lives.
Rheumatoid Arthritic Pain
Published in Andrea Kohn Maikovich-Fong, Handbook of Psychosocial Interventions for Chronic Pain, 2019
Natasha S. DePesa, Chelsea Wiener, Jeffrey E. Cassisi
Motivational interviewing/enhancement is a clinical approach that aims to help individuals resolve ambivalence toward making health-positive changes; see Miller and Rollnick (2012) for a detailed overview. For many patients, making behavioral changes can be very challenging, whether the changes might be to take medications as prescribed, increase physical activity, stop smoking, or ask for and accept help from others. By approaching patients in an open, accepting, and nonjudgmental manner and eliciting their personal reasons for and barriers to change, providers can help patients navigate the behavior change process more successfully. This approach also is useful in identifying which behavioral targets a patient is willing and ready to change, especially when multiple potential targets exist. While there is little research regarding motivational interviewing for RA patients specifically, evidence suggests that motivational interviewing can be helpful in targeting many domains that are relevant for patients with RA (e.g., increasing physical activity, improving medication adherence, weight management) (Georgopoulou, Prothero, Lempp, Galloway, & Sturt, 2016).
The effects of health literacy on disease control in adolescents with asthma
Published in Journal of Asthma, 2023
Sukru Cekic, Zuhal Karali, Yakup Canitez, Selin Esmen, Hatice Ortac, Selin Abdu, Nihat Sapan
Behavior change interventions are fundamental to the effective practice of clinical medicine and improving public health. Michie et al. proposed a new method for characterizing and designing behavior change interventions (25). The core components of this framework consist of three essential conditions: ability, opportunity, and motivation. The behavior is determined by the interactions between these components (25). The core components have many interactions with other components besides HL. Salim et al. (26) reported in their systematic review that the studies conducted to support asthmatics with limited HL to acquire better self-management skills have an uncertain relationship with improved health outcomes. Jegannathan et al. (27) reported no relationship between the adequacy of HL and the learning of self-management skills in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In our study, adolescents with asthma who were admitted to the ED due to asthma in the past year or used systemic steroids showed lower median HL levels. However, the difference was not statistically significant. More comprehensive studies should be conducted on the effects of HL on behavioral changes, such as improving the self-management skills of asthmatic patients.
Harnessing technology to prevent sexual assault on college campuses
Published in Journal of American College Health, 2023
Adrienne Baldwin-, Glenna Read, Jenay Beer, Gabrielle Darville
With technological advances of the 21st century, researchers and practitioners across multiple disciplines have advocated for the use of technologies to promote behavior change. Information communication technologies (ICTs), including mobile apps, SMS text messaging, the Internet, social media, and digital gaming have increasingly been integrated into behavioral health interventions.1 Research has demonstrated the wide array of interactive components afforded by technological interventions that enhance user experiences.2 ICT-based interventions, like the aforementioned examples, allow opportunities for targeting and tailoring, which increases attention and engagement.3 These cognitive states facilitate information processing, a critical first step to behavior change, which can impact adoption of healthy behaviors.4
Like I said, I would not have likely gotten up otherwise: patient experiences of using an Activity Board after abdominal cancer surgery
Published in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2023
Andrea Porserud, Mari Lundberg, Johanna Eriksson, Malin Nygren Bonnier, Maria Hagströmer
The analysis showed that the participants discussed the following behaviour change techniques: goal-setting, self-monitoring, feedback and rewards. Changing or supporting a behaviour, in this case mobilisation and breathing exercises, can be difficult. In 2008, Abraham and Michie constructed a taxonomy on behaviour change techniques to use in interventions, and the Activity Board used in our study includes several of these techniques [11]. The participants perceived that goal-setting should be a joint effort by the physiotherapist and patient. This opinion is in accord with research suggesting that person-centred goal-setting should be one part of person-centred care in physiotherapy [25]. The importance of daily goal-setting has also been acknowledged by patients undergoing colorectal surgery [26]. In addition, our analysis showed that the participants perceived that the red and green magnets on the Activity Board gave them an easy way to self-monitor their mobilisation and breathing exercises. Lately, it has been shown that, among behaviour change techniques, self-monitoring was the most commonly used technique associated with increased physical activity [27]. Reward is also a behaviour change technique and, for the Activity Board, the golden star is the most visible reward. Some participants thought the star's simplicity was appealing, whereas others perceived it as somewhat ludicrous. Some participants even saw the star as an insult. Consequently, the way rewards are given in relation to the Activity Board could be further elaborated on, such as in a more person-centred manner.