Adherence to exercise in later life: how can exercise on prescription programmes be made more effective?

Weight management in primary care: how can it be made more effective?

Obesity is often difficult to tackle in primary care. Pressure of time in the consultation, a lack of appropriately-trained primary care staff, a shortage of community dietitians or nutritionists, the potentially enormous caseload, language or cultural barriers and the sheer intractability of patients' eating habits, exercise behaviour and their clinical condition, all conspire to make general ...

How Can Vaccines Against Influenza and Other Viral Diseases Be Made More Effective?

1 Biological Mimetics, Inc., Frederick, Maryland, United States of America, 2 Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, 3 Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, 4 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton Unive...

How to Exercise During Coronavirus Quarantine?

The COVID-19 pandemic caused stress and anxiety in many people that can be reduced by regular physical activity. Regular physical exercise is essential for health. In the absence of COVID-19 symptoms, no limitation in physical activity is recommended.  However, parameters such as frequency, intensity, type, and time need to be considered to prescribe the program and obtain the best results. Con...

“Theory of Planned Behavior” in Physical Therapy: From Deciding Exercise Prescription to Improving Exercise Adherence

The Theory of planned behavior (TPB) was proposed by Icek Ajzen in 1988 which was an expectancy-value theory that provided a framework for the study of behavioral and normative beliefs affecting health behaviors. 1 The theory of planned behavior (TPB) is a popular framework for understanding the informational and motivational influences of exercise and physical activity behavior, 2 and it can e...

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