Background: Nowadays, due to ineffectiveness of interventions in the prevention of obesity in school-age children, collaborative approach in order to prevent and control the obesity seems necessary. Aim: to assess the impact of health promotion programs with collaborative approach on physical activity levels of overweight school-age girls. Methods: This quasi-experimental and pretest/post-test ...

OBJECTIVES Exercise on referral schemes (ERS) are widely commissioned in the UK but there is little evidence of their association with physical activity levels. We sought to assess the Northumberland exercise on referral scheme in terms of increased levels of physical activity and identify predictors of engagement. DESIGN A naturalistic observational study. SETTING 9 local authority leisure...

INTRODUCTION This study compares the differential efficacy of three groups of treatments for agoraphobia: paroxetine combined with cognitive-behavioral therapy, paroxetine combined with cognitive-behavioral therapy and virtual reality exposure, and a group with only paroxetine. METHODOLOGY 99 patients with agoraphobia were finally selected. Both combined treatment groups received 11 sessions ...

The aim of this longitudinal study was to determine whether a rowing training program improved the quality life and physical activity levels in female breast cancer survivors (n = 28) (stage 1–4.54%; stage 2–36.36%; 3–54.54%; 4–4.54%), diagnosed 4.68 ± 3.00 years previously, who had undergone subsequent intervention (preservation 56.53% total mastectomy 43.47%) current mean age 52.30 3.78 years...

Interventions for young children at risk autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may improve key developmental skills and remediate early ASD signs. Parents of 3 (19, 23, 26 months old) showing possible signs participated. The Parent Observation Early Markers Scale (POEMS) identified specific child concerns confirmed in baseline observations. Multiple designs across parent behaviors evaluated a parent-m...

The present study examined the effects of a four-week physical activity (PA) programme on employees’ general affective well-being acute fitness and stretching sessions momentary states. Participants were divided between an experimental (n = 54) comparison group 57). After one month, only employees in increased their well-being. Moreover, positive states significantly higher after PA sessions, e...

ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect Pessoa training aid (PTA) exercise program exerts in some physical conditioning predictors. Eight detrained adult horses were evaluated 12 sessions work with PTA (3 per week). All used a heart rate monitor and GPS (V800, Polar Electro) data calculate energy expenditure (EE), net cost transport (COT), metabolic requirement (Pmet), oxygen ...

The objective of this study was to compare the effect of multisensory stimulation environment (MSSE) and one-to-one activity sessions in the symptomatology of elderly individuals with severe dementia. Thirty-two participants were randomly assigned to the following 3 groups: MSSE, activity, and control group. The MSSE and activity groups participated in two 30-minute weekly sessions over 16 week...

BACKGROUND Few studies have examined if infectious arteriovenous access complications vary with the cannulation technique and whether this is modified by dialysis frequency. We compared the infection rate between fistulas cannulated using buttonhole versus stepladder techniques for patients treated with short daily (SDH) or nocturnal hemodialysis at home (NHD). We also compared patients receivi...