Showing papers in "Preventive Medicine in 2005"

TL;DR: Although there is a statistical difference between days, there is little practical difference, and the primary distinction appears limited to Sunday, suggesting any 3 days can provide a sufficient estimate.

TL;DR: Underage alcohol use is associated with brain damage and neurocognitive deficits, with implications for learning and intellectual development, and it is imperative for policymakers and organized medicine to address the problem of underage drinking.

TL;DR: Proactive, home-based, and stage-matched expert systems can produce relatively high population impacts on multiple behavior risks for cancer and other chronic diseases.

TL;DR: This study provides benchmark estimates of the prevalence of multiple cancer-related behavioral risk factors among U.S. cancer survivors and reveals considerable opportunities for behavioral risk factor interventions among cancer survivors.

TL;DR: Multicolor playground markings can be a low-cost method of increasing children's daily physical activity levels in the short term and if these increases were sustained, then school playgrounds with multicolor markings would make a valuable contribution to physical activity recommendations for young people.

TL;DR: The low prevalence of screening for colorectal cancer appears to be due to lack of awareness and inadequate provider counseling rather than poor patient acceptance for screening.

TL;DR: The data suggest that 30' of moderate LTPA per day on a regular basis may be beneficial on HRQoL, and emphasizes the importance to promote at least moderate physical activity.

TL;DR: Adequate physical activity was independently associated with sex (male), younger age, ability to travel independently, better physical functioning, lower psychological distress, rural residence, not having diabetes, adequate fruit and vegetable intake, and speaking a language other than English at home.

TL;DR: Significant gaps between GP's knowledge and practices persist in the use of evidence-based recommendations for health promotion and disease prevention in primary care.

TL;DR: Aesthetics and safety appear to be important influences of physical activity, whereas proximal footpaths showed increased likelihood of participation in recreational walking.

TL;DR: Education is a strong predictor of smoking in Europe and interventions should aim to prevent addiction to smoking among the lower educated, by price policies, school-based programs, and smoking cessation support for young adults.

TL;DR: Black tea consumed throughout the world is believed to be not only a popular beverage but also an antioxidative agent available in everyday life.

TL;DR: Some perceived neighborhood environmental attributes were found to be associated with level of physical activity in adolescents, including aesthetic and recreational facilities domains.

TL;DR: After controlling for several confounding variables, wellness program participation was associated with large reductions in employee absenteeism and this translated into a cost savings of 15.60 US dollars for every dollar spent on the program.

TL;DR: Systematically integrating culture into tailored cancer prevention and control interventions may enhance their effectiveness in diverse populations.

TL;DR: The results suggest that recess can contribute 28 min for boys and 21.5 min for girls toward the accumulation of recommended daily physical activity, however, the physical activity intensities that children engaged in were low during recess.

TL;DR: The counts from the Stepwatch were virtually identical to the manual counts from a trained investigator and provided a reliable predictor of walking energy expenditure.

TL;DR: This study is the first to document a significant association between specific domains of personality, coping strategies, and social support, and the use of CAM among adults in the general population.

TL;DR: Waist-to-height ratio is more sensitive than BMI or waist circumference alone to evaluate clustering of coronary risk factors among non-obese men and women.

TL;DR: This study provides minimal evidence of an influence of social desirability on scores from two self-report instruments for measuring physical activity in young adults.

TL;DR: Cancer screening programs must take into account differences among Latinos in age, gender, educational levels, marital status, cancer history, risk behaviors, insurance, health status and health services utilization.

TL;DR: The positive association between BMI and land-use mix may be due to the inclusion of individual SES as a controlling variable in the analyses, suggesting that SES may have a differential effect on how the built environment influences BMI in low- to moderate-income minority communities.

TL;DR: The associations of acculturation, exercise, and diet to BMI implicate societal as well as individual contributors to obesity among U.S. Latinos.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that the adoption of a physically active lifestyle modifies the inflammation process in healthy individuals.

TL;DR: Results supported the use of a modified version of the CFQ among Blacks and Hispanics and revealed no ethnic differences on factor scores, except on interactions with parent education and overweight status of child.

TL;DR: Limited website engagement demonstrates possible constraints on the use of e-mails and websites in delivering health behavior change programs in the often-cluttered information environment of workplaces.

TL;DR: On average, middle-aged, formerly sedentary women selected an intensity that is considered physiologically effective and reported that it did not feel hard or unpleasant, with considerable interindividual variability.

TL;DR: Undesirable lifestyles are positively associated with impaired QOL among children, and further understanding of these relationships will facilitate the development of interventions to help children with poor QOL.

TL;DR: Providing a free piece of fruit or a vegetable is an effective strategy to increase school children's fruit and vegetable intake and the existing School Fruit Programme appears to increase the intake among the subscribers, but also tends to increase an existing difference in consumption patterns among subscribers and non-subscribers.

TL;DR: The study provides evidence for the benefit to fitness and cardiovascular risk of the "30-min brisk walking, 5 days a week" message to people aged 50-65 years who participated in an unsupervised home-based walking program.