scholarly journals Women's and Midwives' Perspectives on the Design of a Text Messaging Support for Maternal Obesity Services: An Exploratory Study

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Soltani ◽  
P. J. Furness ◽  
M. A. Arden ◽  
K. McSeveny ◽  
C. Garland ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Maternal Obesity ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Message Content ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Lifestyle Choices ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle Choices ◽  
Purposive Sample

This study was aimed to explore women’s and midwives’ views on the use of mobile technology in supporting obese pregnant women with healthy lifestyle choices. A purposive sample of 14 women and midwives participated in four focus groups in Doncaster, UK. A content analysis of the transcripts from the first focus group led to the emergence of three main constructs with associated subcategories including Benefits (“modernising,” “motivating,” “reminding,” and “reducing” the sense of isolation), Risks and Limitations (possibility of “being offensive,” “creating pressure or guilt,” and “being influenced by mood”), and Service Delivery (making it “available to all pregnant women,” giving attention to the “message tone” and development of “message content”). They also suggested the use of other modalities such as web-based services for weight management during pregnancy. Based on the above results a text messaging service was developed and presented to the 2nd focus group participants who confirmed the positive views from the first focus group on the use of the text messaging as being supportive and informative. The participants also welcomed “women’s engagement and choice” in deciding the content, timing and frequency of messages. The results informed the development of a text messaging service to support maternal obesity management. The implementation and acceptability of this service requires further investigation.

scholarly journals Perceptions of Preventive Health Care and Healthy Lifestyle Choices for Low Income Families: A Qualitative Study

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sasha A. Fleary ◽  
Reynolette Ettienne-Gittens ◽  
Robert W. Heffer
Keyword(s):  
Head Start ◽  
Protective Factors ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Preventive Health Care ◽  
Preventive Health ◽  
Lifestyle Choices ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle Choices

This paper examines Head Start parents’ perceptions of preventive health and healthy lifestyle choices and Head Start administrators’ perceptions of the needs of parents they serve. To address the preventive health of the population, it is necessary that we explore perceptions, risks, and protective factors of preventive health. Focus groups were conducted with parents and administrators to elicit this information and to obtain suggestions for improving preventive health and healthy lifestyle choices among this group. Overall, nutrition and physical activity emerged as themes in parents’ definition of preventive health and healthy lifestyle choices. They further identified social support and education as major protective factors for engaging in preventive health and healthy lifestyle choices. Results of this study can be used to inform research and practice to develop interventions to increase preventive health and healthy lifestyle choices among low income families.

Passport to Health: An Innovative Tool to Enhance Healthy Lifestyle Choices

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Vaczy ◽  
Brenda Seaman ◽  
Kathleen Peterson-Sweeney ◽  
Carol Hondorf
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Lifestyle Choices ◽  
Innovative Tool ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle Choices

Pregnancy, Physical Activity and Weight Control to Prevent Obesity and Future Chronic Disease Risk in Both Mother and Child

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle F. Mottola
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Weight Control ◽  
Maternal Obesity ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Disease Risk ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Weight Retention ◽  
Chronic Disease Risk

Maternal obesity is accelerating world-wide and may be partly due to excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) and weight retention so that women begin a subsequent pregnancy with extra weight. Excessive GWG has been linked to chronic disease risk in the mother and also to an unhealthy foetal environment with downstream consequences for offspring health with risk for childhood obesity. Weight control during pregnancy and prevention of excessive GWG is an important issue for both mother and developing child. A healthy lifestyle through healthy eating and physical activity are key to prevention. Weight management for non-pregnant individuals has been evaluated for over 30 years, and lessons learned may assist in planning interventions for preventing excessive GWG. Many systematic reviews and meta-analyses analyzing the same studies on GWG report very different results. Recently, 10 intervention trials to prevent excessive GWG were published and only 6 of them were successful. Significant association between maternal exercise and GWG guidelines were reported, however, “one size does not fit all”. The failed trials did not have extra faceto- face sessions, were educational based and adherence was <50%. Accountability, face-to-face exercise sessions, and pedometers may motivate pregnant women to increase step counts to 10,000, which, when combined with nutrition control, prevents excessive GWG. Community walking programs that include family members and children may assist pregnant women of all body mass index categories to overcome potential barriers to promote a healthy lifestyle that will benefit them and their families for weight control and prevention of future chronic disease risk.

scholarly journals Cholesterol versus Inflammation as Cause of Chronic Diseases

Nutrients ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Panchal ◽  
Brown
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Inflammatory Mediators ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Platelet Activating Factor ◽  
Lifestyle Choices ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle Choices

Tsoupras and colleagues have postulated, in a recent review in Nutrients, that the key to reducing the incidence of cardiovascular disease is to control the activities of inflammatory mediators such as platelet-activating factor (PAF) by diet, exercise, and healthy lifestyle choices [...]

scholarly journals Healthy lifestyle choices: could sense of coherence aid health promotion?

2007 ◽  
Vol 61 (10) ◽  
pp. 871-876 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. W J Wainwright ◽  
P. G Surtees ◽  
A. A Welch ◽  
R. N Luben ◽  
K.-T. Khaw ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Sense Of Coherence ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Lifestyle Choices ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle Choices

scholarly journals The effect of active occupational stress management on psychosocial and physiological wellbeing: a pilot study

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomislav Jukic ◽  
Alojz Ihan ◽  
Vojko Strojnik ◽  
David Stubljar ◽  
Andrej Starc
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Stress ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Univariate Analysis ◽  
Compliance Rate ◽  
Psychological Evaluation ◽  
Continuous Variables ◽  
Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test ◽  
Lifestyle Choices ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle Choices

Abstract Background The aim of the study was to address the working population with an occupational stress prevention program using mHealth solution and encourage them for healthy lifestyle choices. Methods Seventeen participants were randomized from the corporate setting. A 24alife app with a good compliance program was selected. Test battery has been designed to test the physical readiness, psychological evaluation and biological blood markers for stress. Participants were followed up after 30, 60 and 90 days, respectively, within the intervention period. Weight of participants was tracked three times per month. Univariate analysis compared the continuous variables by One-Way Repeated-Measures ANOVA test when the data were normally distributed, or Wilcoxon rank sum test for abnormal distribution of variables. Results Participants used the app with a compliance rate of 94.1%. The psychological evaluation revealed higher motivation for work, lower burnout scores and participants gave subjective responses of better general wellbeing. Some of the participants lost up to four kg of body mass. Physical readiness has also improved. Conclusions Results of mHealth projects on corporate could include primary health care institutions and health ministry to extend the existing system to patients’ pockets where they can monitor their disease and increase the ability of self-care.

scholarly journals The effect of active occupational stress management on psychosocial and physiological wellbeing: a pilot study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomislav Jukic ◽  
Alojz Ihan ◽  
Vojko Strojnik ◽  
David Stubljar ◽  
Andrej Starc
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Stress ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Univariate Analysis ◽  
Compliance Rate ◽  
Psychological Evaluation ◽  
Continuous Variables ◽  
Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test ◽  
Lifestyle Choices ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle Choices

Abstract Background: The aim of the study was to address the working population with an occupational stress prevention program using mHealth solution and encourage them for healthy lifestyle choices.Methods: Sixteen participants were randomized from the corporate setting. A 24alife app with a good compliance program was selected. Test battery has been designed to test the physical readiness, psychological evaluation and biological blood markers for stress. Participants were followed up after 30, 60 and 90 days, respectively, within the intervention period. Weight of participants was tracked three times per month. Univariate analysis compared the continuous variables by One-Way Repeated-Measures ANOVA test when the data were normally distributed, or Wilcoxon rank sum test for abnormal distribution of variables.Results: Participants used the app with a compliance rate of 94.1%. The psychological evaluation revealed higher motivation for work, lower burnout scores and participants gave subjective responses of better general wellbeing. Some of the participants lost up to four kg of body mass. Physical readiness has also improved.Conclusions: Results of mHealth projects on corporate could include primary health care institutions and health ministry to extend the existing system to patients’ pockets where they can monitor their disease and increase the ability of self-care.

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