Showing papers in "American Journal of Preventive Medicine in 2012"

TL;DR: Estimates of adult obesity and severe obesity prevalence through 2030 based on nonlinear regression models suggest that by 2030, 51% of the population will be obese and the combined savings over the next 2 decades would be $549.5 billion.

TL;DR: This work organizes and synthesizes these models by developing an inventory of models used in D&I research, synthesizing this information and providing guidance on how to select a model to inform study design and execution to enable researchers to better identify and select models to inform their D &I work.

TL;DR: Results point to the high specificity of various sedentary behaviors, suggesting that the research domain is complex and cannot be considered the simple absence of MVPA.

TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic review and meta-analysis on collaborative care for improving the management of depressive disorders is presented, and the results from the meta-analyses suggest robust evidence of effectiveness of collaborative care in improving depression symptoms (standardized mean difference [SMD] 0.34, adherence to treatment (OR2.22), response to treatment, remission of symptoms (OR1.78), recovery from symptoms, and satisfaction with care.

TL;DR: Results of updated systematic reviews for nine interventions to increase screening for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancers indicate new and reaffirmed interventions effective in promoting recommended cancer screening, including coloreCTal cancer screening.

TL;DR: Concept issues, knowledge about direct and buffering protective factors in the development of youth violence, and implications for future research and practice concern adequate research designs to detect nonlinear relationships are discussed.

TL;DR: Use of an online social networking group plus self-monitoring did not produce greater perceptions of social support or physical activity as compared to education-only controls, and efforts to further understand how online social networks can be used in health promotion should be pursued.

TL;DR: Cybercycling older adults achieved better cognitive function than traditional exercisers, for the same effort, suggesting that simultaneous cognitive and physical exercise has greater potential for preventing cognitive decline.

TL;DR: General and LGBT-specific risk factors both uniquely contribute to likelihood of suicidal ideation and self-harm in LGBT youth, which may, in part, account for the higher risk of these phenomena observed in this population.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used literature searches to determine whether video games may be useful in improving health outcomes and found that video games improved 69% of psychological therapy outcomes and 59% of physical therapy outcomes, 50% physical activity outcomes, 46% of clinician skills outcomes, 42% of health education outcomes, and 37% of disease selfmanagement outcomes.

TL;DR: There is substantial variability in the distance and duration of walking trips by purpose and population subgroups, which has implications for developing strategies to increase physical activity through walking.

TL;DR: Physical activity decline was evident during young adults' transition into early adulthood, with declines being steepest among men who entered a college/university.

TL;DR: In this article, a sit-stand workstation was used to reduce office workers' sitting time at the workplace and during all waking time, and the results showed that sitting was almost exclusively replaced by standing, with minimal changes to stepping time.

TL;DR: Providing access to school facilities, providing unfixed equipment, and identifying ways to promote encouragement for physical activity have the potential to inform strategies to increase physical activity levels during recess periods.

TL;DR: Findings suggest several strategies for in-store marketing to promote healthful eating by increasing availability, affordability, prominence, and promotion of healthful foods and/or restricting or de-marketing unhealthy foods.

TL;DR: Whether STI prevention messages delivered via Facebook are efficacious in preventing increases in sexual risk behavior at 2 and 6 months and whether linking social media to clinical and social services can be beneficial is investigated.

TL;DR: A daily feedback message delivered remotely enhanced adherence and improved weight loss, which suggests that technology can play a role in improving weight loss.

TL;DR: Veritas as discussed by the authors is an interactive web mapping application that can geolocate individuals' activity places, routes between locations, and relevant areas such as experienced or perceived neighborhoods, and formalize the theoretic grounds of a contextual expology as a subdiscipline to better assess the spatiotemporal configuration of environmental exposures.

TL;DR: Given the strength of evidence for telephone-delivered physical activity and dietary change interventions, greater emphasis on dissemination studies is warranted.

TL;DR: No robust relationship between food environment and consumption is found among youth in California and longitudinal studies that can assess links between environmental, dependent, and intervening food purchase and consumption variables are needed.

TL;DR: Veterans have poorer health and health behaviors; increased prevention efforts are needed from veteran-serving organizations, and active duty men reported unhealthy lifestyles, indicating an important area for prevention efforts.

TL;DR: Women were significantly more likely than men to report falls, seek medical care, and/or discuss falls and fall prevention with a healthcare provider, and Providers should consider asking all older patients about previous falls.

TL;DR: Group-based comprehensive risk reduction was found to be an effective strategy to reduce adolescent pregnancy, HIV, and STIs and no conclusions could be drawn on the effectiveness of group-based abstinence education.

TL;DR: Compared with civilian women, NG/R women rated their health and access to health care similarly and active duty women rated theirs better on several domains, but veterans consistently reported poorer health.

TL;DR: Findings support the proposed GIS-based definitions of obesogenic neighborhoods for children and parents that consider both physical activity and nutrition environment features.

TL;DR: Point-of-choice prompting software on work computers recommending taking a break from sitting plus education is superior to education alone in reducing long uninterrupted sedentary periods at work.

TL;DR: Exercise has a palliative effect in patients during treatment and a recuperative effect post-treatment, and is moderated differentially over the time course of treatment and recovery.

TL;DR: There is limited evidence that active transport is associated with more physical activity as well as lower body weight in adults, and study heterogeneity, predominantly cross-sectional designs, and crude measures for active transport and physical activity impede quantitative conclusions.

TL;DR: The EIT model is a straightforward framework to guide practice, research, and policy toward greater effectiveness and is designed to be applicable across multiple levels-from individual-focused and patient-provider interventions, to health systems and policy-level change initiatives.

TL;DR: Commuting distance was adversely associated with physical activity, CRF, adiposity, and indicators of metabolic risk and positively associated with BMI, waist circumference, systolic and diastolic blood pressure and continuous metabolic score in fully adjusted linear regression models.