Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Short message service reduces dropout in childhood obesity treatment: a randomized controlled trial.
Lifestyle programs can reduce the level of overweight in children; however, maintenance results and adherence to treatment are difficult to achieve. New technologies, such as the Short Message Service (SMS), might be a promising tool for enhancing interventions. The effect of an SMS approach aimed at improving treatment results and reducing dropout rates in a pediatric lifestyle intervention, is explored. ⋯ These results indicate that SMSMT is effective in reducing dropout rates from a pediatric lifestyle intervention. Future research should examine the effectiveness of SMSMT on weight management and related psychosocial variables.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Effects of supportive-expressive group therapy on pain in women with metastatic breast cancer.
To examine whether a group intervention including hypnosis can reduce cancer pain and trait hypnotizability would moderate these effects. ⋯ These results augment the growing literature supporting the use of hypnosis as an adjunctive treatment for medical patients experiencing pain.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
An intervention to reduce kerosene-related burns and poisonings in low-income South African communities.
Unintentional injury rates in low- and middle-income countries are up to 50 times higher than high-income nations. In South Africa, kerosene (paraffin) is a leading cause of poisoning and burns, particularly in low-income communities where it serves as a primary fuel for light, cooking, and heating. This study tested a community-based intervention to reduce kerosene-related injury risk. The intervention used a train-the-trainers model, whereby expert trainers train local paraprofessionals, who in turn deliver educational materials to community residents. The intervention was theory-driven, pragmatically motivated, and culturally sensitive. ⋯ The intervention was successful. A train-the-trainers model might be an effective educational tool to reduce kerosene-related injury risk in low-income communities within low- and middle-income countries.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Randomized trial of a decision aid for BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers: impact on measures of decision making and satisfaction.
Genetic testing is increasingly part of routine clinical care for women with a family history of breast cancer. Given their substantially elevated risk for breast cancer, BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers must make the difficult decision whether or not to opt for risk reducing mastectomy. To help BRCA1/2 carriers make this decision, the authors developed a computer-based interactive decision aid that was tested against usual care in a randomized controlled trial. ⋯ These results demonstrate that BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers who are having difficulty making a breast cancer risk management decision can benefit from adjunct decision support.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Illness schema activation and attentional bias to coping procedures.
Relatively little research to date has directly addressed the schematic nature of illness representations proposed by H. Leventhal, J. Weinman, and L. A. Phillips' (1980) common sense model of illness. The present experiments tested the hypothesis that coping information is schematically encoded within the representations of a specific illness. ⋯ Activation of a schematic representation of illness may automatically activate information related to coping procedures encoded in memory with the illness.