OBJECTIVE: To describe a method to obtain a profile of the duration and intensity (speed) of walking periods over 24 hours in women under free-living conditions. DESIGN: A new method based on accelerometry was designed for analyzing walking activity. In order to take into account interindividual variability of acceleration, an individual calibration process was used. Different experiments were performed to highlight the variability of acceleration vs walking speed relationship, to analyze the speed prediction accuracy of the method, and to test the assessment of walking distance and duration over 24-h. SUBJECTS: Twenty-eight women were studied (mean AE s.d.) age: 39.3 AE 8.9 y; body mass: 79.7 AE 11.1 kg; body height: 162.9 AE 5.4 cm; and body mass index (BMI) 30.0 AE 3.8 kg=m 2 . RESULTS: Accelerometer output was significantly correlated with speed during treadmill walking (r ¼ 0.95, P < 0.01), and short unconstrained walks (r ¼ 0.86, P < 0.01), although with a large inter-individual variation of the regression parameters. By using individual calibration, it was possible to predict walking speed on a standard urban circuit (predicted vs measured r ¼ 0.93, P < 0.01, s.e.e. ¼ 0.51 km=h). In the free-living experiment, women spent on average 79.9 AE 36.0 (range: 31.7 -168.2) min=day in displacement activities, from which discontinuous short walking activities represented about 2=3 and continuous ones 1=3. Total walking distance averaged 2.1 AE 1.2 (range: 0.4 -4.7) km=day. It was performed at an average speed of 5.0 AE 0.5 (range: 4.1 -6.0) km=h. CONCLUSION: An accelerometer measuring the anteroposterior acceleration of the body can estimate walking speed together with the pattern, intensity and duration of daily walking activity.
The purpose of this study was to explore occupational health nurses' attitudes, beliefs, and practices regarding the delivery of smoking cessation services to workers. The study included 707 members of the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) who completed a one-time survey during the fall of 2012. Results indicated that occupational health nurses believed that evidence-based treatments are at least somewhat effective and that they should provide smoking cessation services to their workers; however, a majority of occupational health nurses reported that they did not have appropriate smoking cessation training or guidelines in their workplaces. Occupational health nurses would benefit from training in the use of smoking cessation guidelines and evidence-based smoking cessation interventions, which could be used in their clinical practice. Employers should ensure that workplace policies, such as providing coverage for cessation services, facilitate smokers' efforts to quit. Employers can benefit from many of these policies through cost savings via reduced health care costs and absenteeism.
The 60-second tool (2012)(©) uses a cost-effective, simple, standardized approach to identifying, in a timely fashion, which individuals are at high risk for diabetic foot complications. Using this tool, occupational health nurses can screen for diabetic foot complications in varied clinical settings.
The 60-second tool (2012)(©) uses a cost-effective, simple, standardized approach to identifying, in a timely fashion, which individuals are at high risk for diabetic foot complications. Using this tool, occupational health nurses can screen for diabetic foot complications in varied clinical settings.
This article documents evidence-based pharmacologic interventions to promote successful smoking cessation among employees who smoke. The article also highlights supporting evidence for the use of pharmacologic agents to treat tobacco dependence and can guide successful, personalized, pharmacologic smoking cessation interventions in occupational clinical practice. Prescribing clinicians will also find information about the latest research and development of medications to promote smoking cessation, including recently implemented black box warnings by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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