International journal of behavioral medicine
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Effects of a Multi-Component Workplace Intervention Program with Environmental Changes on Physical Activity among Japanese White-Collar Employees: a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial.
This study aimed to investigate effects of a flexible multi-component workplace intervention program for improving physical activity among Japanese white-collar employees in a cluster randomized controlled trial design. ⋯ This trial showed a significant and positive effect of the intervention program on physical activity. The program is unique because of its flexibility and feasibility. However, small worksites might receive less benefit from the program, indicating a need for further support and/or new technologies.
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Spirituality, Religiosity, and Health: a Comparison of Physicians' Attitudes in Brazil, India, and Indonesia.
One of the biggest challenges in the spirituality, religiosity, and health field is to understand how patients and physicians from different cultures deal with spiritual and religious issues in clinical practice. ⋯ Physicians from these different three countries had very different attitudes on spirituality, religiosity, and health. Ethnicity and culture can have an important influence on how spirituality is approached in medical practice. S/R curricula that train physicians how to address spirituality in clinical practice must take these differences into account.
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Multicenter Study
The stigma scale for chronic illnesses 8-item version (SSCI-8): development, validation and use across neurological conditions.
Although the impact of stigma has been highlighted for epileptic populations, the experiences of people living with other neurological conditions have been less studied. ⋯ Preliminary evidence suggests that the Stigma Scale for Chronic Illness 8-item version fits a unidimensional model, which assesses enacted and internalised stigma, and has adequate internal consistency/reliability and validity in relation to psychological distress and patient performance. Our results suggest fairly low stigma for neurological populations. In addition, our results suggest that stigma may be more severe for patients with ALS relative to those with MS and PD. In the future, the SSCI-8 scale could be used practically in clinic settings to examine stigma without the patient burden associated with lengthier scales.