Health Education

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Improving Australians depression literacy.

Community awareness and understanding of depression ("depression literacy") underpins successful implementation of prevention, early intervention and treatment programs. Improving depression literacy is a major goal of beyondblue: the national depression ...
Ruth A Parslow, Anthony F Jorm (Med J Aust, 200210)
improving-australians-depression-literacy.asp

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The prevention of depression using the Internet.

Efficacy trials suggest that depression is preventable in children and adults. However, current depression prevention interventions are not deliverable to the community en masse. The Internet offers an opportunity to deliver tailored prevention ...
Helen Christensen, Kathleen M Griffiths (Med J Aust, 200210)
prevention-depression-internet.asp

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Relationship between knowledge and claimed compliance with genuine and false nutrition messages.

Nutrition education messages about eight different foods, four of them genuine and four false, were set in a Latin square and eight questionnaires were produced and distributed to customers sitting in a cafe. For each message, subjects were asked to ...
F A M Main, A Wise (J Hum Nutr Diet, 200210)
relationship-knowledge-claimed-compliance-genuine-false-nutrition.asp

194.

Interventions to improve medication adherence in schizophrenia.

OBJECTIVE: Although nonadherence with the antipsychotic medication regimen is a common barrier to the effective treatment for schizophrenia, knowledge is limited about how to improve medication adherence. This systematic literature review examined ...
Annette Zygmunt, Mark Olfson, Carol A Boyer, David Mechanic (Am J Psychiatry, 200210)
interventions-improve-medication-adherence-schizophrenia.asp

195.

Assessment of a pilot videos effect on physical activity and heart health for young children.

This article assessed the effects of a video, "Dynamotion," on childrens knowledge, self-efficacy, and attitude about physical activity and heart health. A quasi-experimental design was used; 12 classrooms (grades K-2) were assigned to intervention (N = ...
Sarah Levin, Maurice W Martin, Thomas L McKenzie, Amy C DeLouise (Fam Community Health, 200210)
assessment-pilot-video-s-effect-physical-activity-heart-health-young.asp

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Patient characteristics determine differences in the influenza vaccination rate more so than practice features.

BACKGROUND: World-wide each year 30-55% of the target population is vaccinated against influenza. Determinants of successful vaccination programs are not clear. This study was aimed at identifying practice- and patient-related factors that determine ...
Margot Tacken, Jozé Braspenning, Peter Spreeuwenberg, Henk van den Hoogen, Gerrit van Essen, Dinny de Bakker, Richard Grol (Prev Med, 200210)
patient-characteristics-determine-differences-influenza-vaccination.asp

197.

Public recognition of specialty designations.

PURPOSE: Although there is no supporting evidence, there is a perception that the public is unfamiliar with what an oral and maxillofacial surgeon does. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the knowledge of persons about the type of treatment ...
Daniel M Laskin, John A Ellis, Al M Best (J Oral Maxillofac Surg, 200210)
public-recognition-specialty-designations.asp

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Programs and policies to discourage the use of tobacco products.

The past 50 years has witnessed a dramatic change in attitudes toward and use of tobacco by Americans that has resulted in recent declines in the incidence of lung cancer. Most public health scholars believe that this change has been accelerated by ...
K Michael Cummings (Oncogene, 200210)
programs-policies-discourage-tobacco-products.asp

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A home-based nutrition intervention to increase consumption of fruits, vegetables, and calcium-rich foods in community dwelling elders.

OBJECTIVE: To increase fruit, vegetable, and calcium-rich food consumption in community-dwelling, functionally impaired elderly. DESIGN: Six-month, home-based nutrition intervention study. SUBJECTS: Seventy men and women older than age 69 years were ...
A Bernstein, Miriam E Nelson, Katherine L Tucker, Jennifer Layne, Elizabeth Johnson, Andrea Nuernberger, Carmen Castaneda, James O Judge, David Buchner, Maria Fiatarone Singh (J Am Diet Assoc, 200210)
home-based-nutrition-intervention-increase-consumption-fruits.asp

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Consumer Health Information for Asians (CHIA): a collaborative project.

According to the 2000 United States Census, the Asian population in Houston, Texas, has increased more than 67% in the last ten years. To supplement an already active consumer health information program, the staff of the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas ...
Deborah D Halsted, Beatriz Varman, Marsha Sullivan, Lynne Nguyen (J Med Libr Assoc, 200210)
consumer-health-information-asians-chia-collaborative-project.asp