American journal of preventive medicine
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Randomized Controlled Trial
A Contactless App-Based Intervention to Improve Health Behaviors in Airline Pilots: A Randomized Trial.
There is a need for enhanced preventive health care among airline pilots to mitigate the prevalence of cardiometabolic health risk factors. ⋯ Study findings show that an app-based health behavior intervention can elicit positive cardiometabolic health changes among airline pilots over 16 weeks, associated with trivial to large effect sizes.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Designing Effective Alcohol Warnings: Consumer Reactions to Icons and Health Topics.
New warning labels for alcohol could reduce alcohol-related health harms. This study examined consumer responses to alcohol warnings with different designs. ⋯ New alcohol warnings could discourage alcohol consumption, especially if warnings include icons.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Consumer Reactions to Positive and Negative Front-of-Package Food Labels.
The National Academy of Medicine recommends that the U.S. adopt an interpretative front-of-package food labeling system, but uncertainty remains about how this system should be designed. This study examined reactions to front-of-package food labeling systems that use positive labels to identify healthier foods, negative labels to identify unhealthier foods, or both. ⋯ Front-of-package food labeling systems that use both positive and negative labels could encourage healthier purchases and improve understanding more than systems using only positive or only negative labels.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
A Risk Education Program Decreases Leftover Prescription Opioid Retention: An RCT.
Retaining leftover prescription opioids poses the risks of diversion, misuse, overdose, and death for youth and other family members. This study examined whether a new educational program would enhance risk perceptions and disposal intentions among parents and decrease their retention of leftover prescription opioids. ⋯ A scenario-specific educational intervention emphasizing the potential risks that leftover opioids pose to children and that provided risk mitigation advice decreased parents' retention of their child's leftover opioid medication. Removing leftover prescription drugs from homes with children may be an important step to reducing diversion, accidental poisoning, and misuse among youth.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Motivators, Barriers, and Preferences to Engagement With Offered Social Care Assistance Among People With Diabetes: A Mixed Methods Study.
A substantial proportion of patients screening positive for social risks either decline assistance or do not follow-up with offered resources. This study examined patient interest in and engagement with offered social care assistance among adults with poorly controlled diabetes at an academic medical center. ⋯ There are key barriers to the use of social care assistance that may directly reflect the process by which individuals are screened and offered assistance. Strategies to increase uptake should be patient centered and ideally provide multiple options for type of assistance and mode of engagement.