American journal of preventive medicine
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Multicenter Study
Risk and direct protective factors for youth violence: results from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Multisite Violence Prevention Project.
This study was conducted as part of a multisite effort to examine risk and direct protective factors for youth violence. ⋯ This study identified some factors than should be areas of interest for effective prevention programs. Some ethnic differences also should be considered in planning of prevention.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Exergaming and older adult cognition: a cluster randomized clinical trial.
Dementia cases may reach 100 million by 2050. Interventions are sought to curb or prevent cognitive decline. Exercise yields cognitive benefits, but few older adults exercise. Virtual reality-enhanced exercise or "exergames" may elicit greater participation. ⋯ Cybercycling older adults achieved better cognitive function than traditional exercisers, for the same effort, suggesting that simultaneous cognitive and physical exercise has greater potential for preventing cognitive decline.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Lay health educators translate a weight-loss intervention in senior centers: a randomized controlled trial.
Older adults have high obesity rates and respond well to evidence-based weight-loss programs, such as the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) Lifestyle intervention. The goal of this study was to determine whether a translation of the DPP Lifestyle program delivered by lay health educators and conducted in senior centers is effective in promoting weight loss among older adults. ⋯ A behavioral lifestyle weight-loss intervention delivered by a lay health educator offers a promising vehicle for translation of evidence-based obesity treatment programs in underserved areas.
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Multicenter Study
Prevalence and predictors of weight-loss maintenance in a biracial cohort: results from the coronary artery risk development in young adults study.
Few population-based studies have examined the behavioral and psychosocial predictors of long-term weight-loss maintenance. ⋯ One third of overweight men and women who lost weight were able to maintain 75% or more of their weight loss over 5 years. Interventions to promote weight-loss maintenance may benefit from targeting increased physical activity and emotional support and decreased sugar-sweetened soft drink consumption.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
New moves-preventing weight-related problems in adolescent girls a group-randomized study.
Weight-related problems are prevalent in adolescent girls. ⋯ New Moves provides a model for addressing the broad spectrum of weight-related problems among adolescent girls. Further work is needed to enhance the effectiveness of interventions to improve weight status of youth.