American journal of preventive medicine
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Randomized Controlled Trial
The Faith, Activity, and Nutrition program: a randomized controlled trial in African-American churches.
Faith-based interventions hold promise for promoting health in ethnic minority populations. To date, however, few of these interventions have used a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach, have targeted both physical activity and healthy eating, and have focused on structural changes in the church. ⋯ This faith-based structural intervention using a CBPR framework showed small but significant increases in self-reported leisure-time MVPA. This program has potential for broad-based dissemination and reach.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Overweight and obesity prevention for adolescents: a cluster randomized controlled trial in a school setting.
Given the increasing prevalence of obesity among youth over the past decade, prevention has become an international public health priority. ⋯ Although the screening and care strategy is an effective way to prevent, at 2 years, overweight and obesity among adolescents in a high school setting, its effects over and above no strategy intervention were small.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Text messaging to motivate walking in older African Americans: a randomized controlled trial.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Aid-assisted decision making and colorectal cancer screening: a randomized controlled trial.
Shared decision making (SDM) is a widely recommended yet unproven strategy for increasing colorectal cancer (CRC) screening uptake. Previous trials of decision aids to increase SDM and CRC screening uptake have yielded mixed results. ⋯ Decision aid-assisted SDM has a modest impact on CRC screening uptake. A decision aid plus personalized risk assessment tool is no more effective than a decision aid alone.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study
Cigarette warning label policy alternatives and smoking-related health disparities.
Pictorial health warning labels on cigarette packaging have been proposed for the U.S., but their potential influences among populations that suffer tobacco-related health disparities are unknown. ⋯ Pictorial health warning labels with graphic images have the most-pronounced short-term impacts on adult smokers, including smokers from groups that have in the past been hard to reach.