The effect of health promotion at the worksite for overweight adolescents is not known. This 2-year intervention study examined the effect of a multimodal programme including nutrition counselling, sport, and life-skill training on medical and psychological outcomes. The body mass index increased slightly less in the intervention group. Semistructured interviews at the end showed that participants are highly interested in health promotion at the worksite.
The purpose of this study was to identify goals of fecal incontinence management and their importance to community-living adults if complete continence would not be possible. Subjects expressed their goals of FI management in a semi-structured interview, selected others from 12 investigator-identified goals, and rated their importance. Five thematic categories emerged from the 114 subject-identified goal statements: “Fecal Incontinence/Bowel Pattern”, “Lifestyle,” “Emotional Responses”, “Adverse Effects of Fecal Incontinence,” and “Self-Care Practices”. Subjects selected a median of 7 investigator-identified goals (range = 2 – 12). Goals selected by the most subjects were “Decreased number of leaks of stool” and “Greater confidence in controlling fecal incontinence”. These goals also had the highest importance along with “Decreased leakage of loose or liquid stool”. The type and number of management goals identified by subjects offer a toolbox of options from which to focus therapy when cure is not possible and promote patient satisfaction.
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