Showing papers in "Preventive Medicine in 2006"

TL;DR: The evidence is strongest in favor of multi-component interventions to increase fruit and vegetable consumption in children, and more research is needed to examine in more depth, for longer follow-up periods, the effectiveness of interventions promoting fruit and vegetables consumption.

TL;DR: This study corroborates and extends previous findings: regular exercise is cross-sectionally associated with lower neuroticism, anxiety and depression and higher extraversion and sensation seeking in the population.

TL;DR: Neighborhoods with increased proximity between homes and a greater proportion of park area are associated with greater physical activity in young children.

TL;DR: Inner city parents have high levels of anxiety about neighborhood safety, which may explain the discrepancy in activity levels between inner city and suburban children, and a safe environment is crucial to increasing opportunities for physical activity.

TL;DR: Couning and intervention with smokers should take into account the strong clustering of risk behaviors with level of cigarette consumption, which increased with cigarette consumption in both men and women.

TL;DR: Spacious preschool environments with trees, shrubbery, and broken ground trigger physical activity and yield sun protection in outdoor play and access to such environments is recommended in community architecture.

TL;DR: The meta-analysis supports the contention that breast cancer worry may motivate screening behavior, and that high levels of breast cancerorry are uncommon.

TL;DR: Messages and interventions aiming to increase children and adolescent's participation in organized and free-time physical activity should continue to focus on promoting the benefits that are associated with being active, the importance of parental support, and the provision of safe and enjoyable opportunities to be active.

TL;DR: The Neighborhood Physical Activity Questionnaire (NPAQ) is sufficiently reliable for studies examining environmental correlates of walking within the neighborhood and overall physical activity.

TL;DR: Weight dissatisfaction was prevalent in Chinese adolescents and was significantly related to media exposure, attitudes towards physical appearance, and adoption of certain health-risk behaviors in girls.

TL;DR: Girls enjoyed Pilates, and participation for 4 weeks lowered BMI percentile, indicating that Pilates holds promise as a means of reducing obesity.

TL;DR: The relationship between omega-3 PUFAs and depression is biologically plausible and is consistent across study designs, study groups, and diverse populations, which increases the likelihood of a causal relationship.

TL;DR: Social capital and support are important determinants of self-rated health and health behaviors and only limited support was found for the hypothesis that health behaviors mediate the association between social capital and health.

TL;DR: Regular religious attendance (especially weekly attendance) is associated with a wide range of healthy behaviors, including preventive care use, vitamin use, infrequent bar attendance, seatbelt use, walking, strenuous exercise, sound sleep quality, never smoking, and moderate drinking.

TL;DR: Overweight status and unhealthy weight control behaviors in adolescents are major public health concerns that warrant interventions addressing both problems.

TL;DR: Methods for improving adherence to the Clinical Practice Guideline for cessation, such as medical school curricula or educational programs for practicing providers, should be examined.

TL;DR: Self-monitoring with an expert feedback can be useful in increasing especially the weekly duration of overall physical activity in the short term, and prescription can be recommended as a tool for primary health care physicians to promote physical activity.

TL;DR: W/Ht >/=0.5 may be the most effective anthropometric index for screening Japanese people for metabolic syndrome.

TL;DR: The results show mixed results for positively influencing adolescents' school and home environments.

TL;DR: Women who initiated cigarette, alcohol or cannabis use at an early age were at elevated risk for early experimentation with each subsequent drug class, and early-onset of more than one substance contributed greater risk for initiation of subsequent drugs.

TL;DR: For girls of both races, fruit and vegetable consumption increased with age; white girls showed a greater increase in fruit and nutrient-rich vegetable intake than black girls.

TL;DR: It is suggested that former and current heavy smokers are more likely to report more pain locations and more intense pain than never smokers.

TL;DR: Smoking is becoming as a major public health threat among Iranian youths and control measures should be considered not only for cigarette smoking, but also for the socially accepted habit of water pipe use that is revived in traditional teahouses.

TL;DR: Examination of trends of socioeconomic differentials in smoking rates by gender, age, and socioeconomic position in South Korea found age-standardized smoking rates decreased in all age groups of men and women aged 45+ between 1989 and 2003, while smoking rates among women aged 20-44 did not decrease.

TL;DR: The results supported the overall hypothesis that the work environment influences aspects of smoking behavior and recommendations are made for more intervention studies where changes in work environment are carried out in combination with health promotion interventions.

TL;DR: Active commuting to school was common among the adolescents, however, the sedentary activity level is high and physical activity was negatively associated with SES.

TL;DR: There is intriguing evidence that suggests that the secular trend is related to a common origin in fetal life that is exacerbated by postnatal events/stressors and should be incorporated into prevention and intervention models.

TL;DR: The Fit for Life badge program resulted in a small decrease in sedentary behavior and increased light intensity physical activity among spring participants only as mentioned in this paper, while there was no effect on moderate to vigorous physical activity.

TL;DR: Knowledge of cardiovascular disease among Deaf respondents is low, and considerably lower than that of the general hearing population.

TL;DR: Language acculturation and generation were positively associated with leisure-time activity, also associated with occupational activity, which is important to consider when designing public health interventions.