Randomized Controlled Trial of a Primary Care and Home-Based Intervention for Physical Activity and Nutrition Behaviors

Abstract

Improvements in some diet, PA, and sedentary behaviors in adolescents can be enabled through the use of a 1-year, integrated intervention using the computer, health provider counseling, mail, and telephone. The amount of intervention received may contribute to its efficacy.

Does parental and adolescent participation in an e-health lifestyle modification intervention improve weight outcomes?

“…In addition, parent participation did not appear to moderate the effect of adolescent participation on weight outcomes. Finally, counter to what others have found, [12, 21, 25, 28] utilization of the self-monitoring tools by either parents or adolescents was not related to adolescents’ change in BMI or WC z-scores. It may be that the self-monitoring tools utilized in this intervention were not as engaging as those included in other studies as a high percentage of adolescents and parents did not use them (26% and 51%, respectively).…”

LINDA – a solution-focused low-intensity intervention aimed at improving health behaviors of young females: a cluster-randomized controlled trial

“…Consistent with the previous studies [14-17], our study suggests that changes in physical activity are more easily achieved compared with changes in diet. It seems that even low intensity individual counseling, such as ours, is enough to yield long-term positive changes in physical activity.…”

Promoting Active Living and Healthy Eating among Inner-City Youth through Community Health Workers: From Clinic to Neighborhood

“…Using CHWs for patient navigation is a key innovative element in our project. Our results are similar to the initial findings of Patrick, et al, [10] where they employed community health educators and health behavior specialists. Hence the role of the CHWs in the present study clearly helped the research team accomplish the primary aims of the study in terms of positive health behavior change.…”