Journal articles: 'Lifestyle practices'

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Watode, Bhaskar Khobraji. "Lifestyle Practices and Stress among School Adolescents in Delhi." Indian Journal of Youth & Adolescent Health 6, no. 2 (January 23, 2020): 14–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.24321/2349.2880.201909.

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S., Elstin Mary, Anjalin D'souza, and Erna Judith Roach. "EFFECTIVENESS OF A LIFESTYLE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM ON KNOWLEDGE AND LIFESTYLE PRACTICES AMONG ADOLESCENTS." Journal of Health and Allied Sciences NU 04, no. 02 (June 2014): 125–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1703780.

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Abstract:Increasing incidence of lifestyle disorders among Indians are largely attributed by unhealthy lifestyle practices like poor dietary pattern, inadequate physical activity, smoking, alcohol consumption and stress. Lifestyle modification programs are proved effective in behaviour modification and promotion of healthy lifestyle practices among adolescents. A school based interventional study was conducted among adolescents with the objective determine the effectiveness of the lifestyle management program in terms of gain in knowledge on lifestyle disorders and change in self-reported lifestyle practices. The study was conducted in two phases. Initially, a baseline data on the lifestyle practices and knowledge on lifestyle disorders was obtained from the adolescents, which was utilized to select the adolescents with poor and average knowledge and unhealthy practices for whom the intervention was implemented. Changes in lifestyle disorder related knowledge and lifestyle practices were tested using a structured knowledge questionnaire and lifestyle assessment scale. After two weeks of the intervention, a post-test was carried out and a significant improvement in knowledge (Z= 12.39, P = 0.001) and lifestyle practice (Z= 5.52, P = 0.001) were identified. The educational package for lifestyle modification was successful in improving the knowledge on lifestyle diseases and lifestyle practices among adolescents and thereby in prevention of lifestyle disorders.

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Alali Dan-Jumbo, Paul O. Dienye, Nnenna O. Nnadi, and Simon Uriah. "Lifestyle practices among hypertensive patients attending the Family Medicine Clinic in a tertiary hospital in Nigeria." GSC Advanced Research and Reviews 6, no. 2 (February 28, 2021): 050–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.30574/gscarr.2021.6.2.0021.

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Introduction: Hypertension is a major modifiable cause of cardiovascular disease affecting more than one billion people globally. Lifestyle modifications form the corner stone for the mitigation of identified risk factors and the prevention and control of hypertension. Some of these factors include cessation of cigarette smoking, weight reduction, increase in physical activity, moderation of dietary sodium and alcohol intake and following the DASH eating plan. They may also facilitate drug step-down and drug withdrawal in highly motivated individuals. The objective of this study was to determine the extent to which diagnosed hypertensive patients modify their lifestyle. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study among 230 patients with essential hypertension in the Family Medicine clinic in a tertiary hospital using a structured pretested questionnaire. Results: Most of the participants (149; 64.8%) were educated on lifestyle practices by health workers. Abstaining from tobacco products (230; 100%) and drinking alcohol (230; 100%) were the most used lifestyle practices. Dietary fruit consumption (93; 40.4%) and engagement in physical activity for thirty minutes per day (35; 15.2%) were the least used lifestyle practices. Conclusion: Health workers were the main source of education of the participants on lifestyle modification. Use of alcohol and consumption of tobacco products were not practiced by all the study participants. Dietary fruit consumption and engagement in physical activity were not popular lifestyle practices. It is recommended that primary care clinicians inquire about unhealthy lifestyles during clinical consultations as well as motivate hypertensive patients to adopt and adhere to appropriate lifestyle modifications.

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Egger, Garry, and Sam Egger. "Lifestyle Medicine." American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine 6, no. 1 (May 26, 2011): 26–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1559827611405287.

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Changes in disease patterns from predominantly infectious to predominantly chronic diseases in Australia, in line with economic development throughout the developed world, have led to the need for changes in conventional health practice. This has resulted in a movement toward an evidence-based discipline of lifestyle medicine incorporating aspects of both public health and clinical medicine, aimed at moderating lifestyle and environmentally based etiologies. A professional association, postgraduate and continuing professional development training, working text, interactive Web site, and annual conference, as described here, are designed to complement conventional medical knowledge and practices. Changes to the Australian health system, which operates on a dual public/private model have made this approach more feasible and continue to be adapted to allow a more comprehensive approach to lifestyle-related health problems.

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Skrobanek, Jan, and Verena Kuglstatter. "Class, Lifestyle and Substance Use among Adolescents: A Bourdieusian Perspective." YOUNG 27, no. 2 (June 4, 2018): 140–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1103308818774984.

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Against the backdrop of the continuing controversy regarding the interlinkage between social class, lifestyle and substance use of young people, the article reports the findings of an effort to assess the impact of adolescents’ cultural and economic capital and lifestyle practices on substance use. Drawing on Bourdieu’s work on class, lifestyle and practice, young people’s substance use can be seen as the product of class-specific capital endowment and related highbrow or lowbrow lifestyles. However, research seeking to explain adolescent substance use so far has eschewed a stringent empirical attempt to examine the impact of capital and lifestyle in relation to the use of different substances. Taking this desideratum as a starting point, our research indicates that although effects of cultural and economic capital are present, the type of lifestyle is more important for understanding and explaining substance use by young people.

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Gharaibeh, M., R. Al-Ma'aitah, and N. Al Jada. "Lifestyle practices of Jordanian pregnant women." International Nursing Review 52, no. 2 (June 2005): 92–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-7657.2005.00257.x.

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Axsen, Jonn, Jennifer TyreeHageman, and Andy Lentz. "Lifestyle practices and pro-environmental technology." Ecological Economics 82 (October 2012): 64–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.07.013.

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Ashley, Christine, Elizabeth Halcomb, Susan McInnes, Karin Robinson, Elizabeth Lucas, Susan Harvey, and Sarah Remm. "Middle-aged Australians’ perceptions of support to reduce lifestyle risk factors: a qualitative study." Australian Journal of Primary Health 26, no. 4 (2020): 313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py20030.

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Increasingly, middle-aged people are demonstrating lifestyle risk factors that increase their risk of developing chronic disease. Reducing lifestyle risk in middle age can significantly reduce future morbidity and mortality and improve quality of life. Understanding peoples’ perceptions of health support is important to inform health professionals and policymakers regarding strategies to support lifestyle risk reduction. This paper seeks to explore middle-aged Australians’ perceptions of support for lifestyle risk reduction. Thirty-four middle-aged Australians were interviewed using a semi-structured interview schedule. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis. The overarching theme ‘support for healthy lifestyles’ comprised three subthemes. ‘Engagement with general practice’ highlighted gender differences in why people attend and what impacts their access to general practice. ‘Providing information’ emphasised participants’ experiences of lifestyle risk communication in general practice. Finally, ‘Sources of support’ revealed participants’ current health advice-seeking behaviours. Findings highlight a need for general practices to better engage middle-aged people in behaviour change and educate them about the role of general practice in prevention and health promotion. Consistent messaging across the community and strategies that focus on gender-specific concerns are likely to ensure that middle-aged people are able to make informed choices about seeking support for lifestyle risk reduction.

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Osikominu, Jessica, and Nancy Bocken. "A Voluntary Simplicity Lifestyle: Values, Adoption, Practices and Effects." Sustainability 12, no. 5 (March 3, 2020): 1903. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12051903.

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Adopting a voluntary simplicity lifestyle (VSL) contributes to a change in consumption patterns towards more sustainable ones, which is urgently needed. This study defines the VSL as a voluntary reduction of income and consumption in exchange for more free time. Our research aims to contribute with more detailed VSL criteria. A literature review develops initial VSL criteria, which are validated against and enriched by data gathered through in-depth interviews with nine voluntary simplicity practitioners. This study contributes with: (1) more detailed insights into the value changes during lifestyle adoption of a VSL, (2) a detailed perspective on significant aspects in VSL adoption as well as how they tend to happen in sequence, and (3) insight into how consumption reduces or changes and how free time is spent when adopting a VSL. A conceptual framework for more detailed VSL criteria, as proposed in this study, is valuable to characterise the VSL lifestyle and differentiate it from other lifestyles. In sum, the study contributes to clearer perspectives on the VSL and provides detailed VSL criteria. Finally, we reaffirm the potential of VSL to contribute toward changing dominant unsustainable consumption patterns and indicate directions for future research.

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Hajjar, Ihab, Brandy Frost, John E. Lacy, and Jane Kotchen. "Association of Primary Care providers Health Habits with Lifestyle Counseling to Hypertensive Elderly Patient." Californian Journal of Health Promotion 4, no. 4 (December 1, 2006): 114–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.32398/cjhp.v4i4.1991.

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We were interested in studying the association between personal health habits of healthcare providers and their beliefs and practices of lifestyle counseling to elderly hypertensive patients. We conducted a national anonymous cross sectional survey of physicians and nurse practitioners providing primary care. The survey was developed to assess providers’ beliefs and practices of lifestyle counseling as well as personal habits. Beliefs about counseling were assessed by (a) perceived available time, (b) perceived skill, and (c) perceived effectiveness of lifestyle counseling. Reported lifestyle counseling practice were assessed by reported frequency of (a) obtaining lifestyle habits and (b) providing lifestyle counseling to elderly hypertensive patients. We mailed 7,500 mailed surveys and received 774. Providers who reported healthier lifestyle habits reported that they more frequently obtain lifestyle history (p=.004) and provide lifestyle counseling (p

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Johnston, Craig A., and Jennette P. Moreno. "Lifestyle Modification." American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine 6, no. 3 (April 6, 2012): 216–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1559827612436943.

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Early detection of cancer through screening is an important step in decreasing both morbidity and mortality. Likewise, specific modifiable lifestyle behaviors are associated with reduced risk of colorectal cancer. Lifestyle practices have also been shown to maximize health after the primary treatment of cancer. Both these roles for lifestyle interventions are discussed.

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Dorado, Mary Anne Grace Malagamba, and Abraham P. Racca. "Relationship of knowledge to Dietary Practices and Physical activity as moderated by Age." Abstract Proceedings International Scholars Conference 7, no. 1 (December 18, 2019): 230–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.35974/isc.v7i1.951.

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Lifestyle – related diseases remained to be on the top ten killer according to the World Health Organization. Literature indicates that diseases are highly related to lifestyle practices. On the other hand, optimal health is a perceived goal of the greater population, however, putting it into practice is a challenge. The study determined the following: 1) the level of the knowledge on healthy lifestyle, dietary practices and physical activity; 2) the relationship of knowledge dietary practices and physical activities, and 3) the relationship of knowledge to dietary practice and relationship of knowledge to physical activities according to age group. The data were gathered among 66 randomly selected respondents who are at least 18 years of age, in which 24 are males and 42 are females, and 40 have earned at most a bachelor’s degree and 26 have at least earned units in a master’s program. Utilizing adapted instruments, respondents were scored on a 12-item instrument in knowledge where in each correct answer correspond to one point, 27-item instrument on healthy lifestyle in terms of diet where in each appropriate response correspond to one point, and 4-item instrument on healthy lifestyle in terms of physical activities. In turn, the highest possible score of knowledge, diet, and physical activities are 12, 27, and 12, respectively. Descriptive results revealed that respondents were highly knowledgeable on healthy lifestyle, have fair on dietary practices and moderate practice of physical activities. Furthermore, knowledge on healthy lifestyle is not significantly correlated to dietary practices physical activities. However, a significant relationship was found when respondents were grouped according to age; only those 24 years old and above were found to have significant results.

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Dorado, Mary Anne Grace Malagamba, and Abraham P. Racca. "Relationship of Knowledge on Healthy Lifestyle to Dietary practices and physical activity as moderated by Age." Abstract Proceedings International Scholars Conference 7, no. 1 (December 18, 2019): 313–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.35974/isc.v7i1.997.

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Lifestyle – related diseases remained to be on the top ten killer according to the World Health Organization. Literature indicates that diseases are highly related to lifestyle practices. On the other hand, optimal health is a perceived goal of the greater population, however, putting it into practice is a challenge. The study determined the following: 1) the level of the knowledge on healthy lifestyle, dietary practices and physical activity; 2) the relationship of knowledge dietary practices and physical activities, and 3) the relationship of knowledge to dietary practice and relationship of knowledge to physical activities according to age group. The data were gathered among 66 randomly selected respondents who are at least 18 years of age, in which 24 are males and 42 are females, and 40 have earned at most a bachelor’s degree and 26 have at least earned units in a master’s program. Utilizing adapted instruments, respondents were scored on a 12-item instrument in knowledge where in each correct answer correspond to one point, 27-item instrument on healthy lifestyle in terms of diet where in each appropriate response correspond to one point, and 4-item instrument on healthy lifestyle in terms of physical activities. In turn, the highest possible score of knowledge, diet, and physical activities are 12, 27, and 12, respectively. Descriptive results revealed that respondents were highly knowledgeable on healthy lifestyle, have fair on dietary practices and moderate practice of physical activities. Furthermore, knowledge on healthy lifestyle is not significantly correlated to dietary practices physical activities. However, a significant relationship was found when respondents were grouped according to age; only those 24 years old and above were found to have significant results.

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Miseng, Daria. "Identification and description of individual lifestyles as characteristics of life activity." Roczniki Psychologiczne 22, no. 3 (February 21, 2020): 233–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rpsych.2019.22.3-3.

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Recent research suggests that individual values play a significant role in the structuring and functioning of a lifestyle. In the present study we empirically examine the relation between individual values and lifestyles and describe its peculiarities. The article covers the results of quantitative content analysis and principal component analysis, carried out for empirical indicators of lifestyle for Ukrainian high school students and undergraduates (N = 170). The results are presented by eleven components distinguished as a result of the empirical study, which describe individual lifestyles in their connection with basic human values. Our findings suggest that basic human values serve as the ground for individual lifestyle construction and life practices or arrangements.

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Cockerham, William C. "Health Lifestyle Theory and the Convergence of Agency and Structure." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 46, no. 1 (March 2005): 51–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002214650504600105.

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This article utilizes the agency-structure debate as a framework for constructing a health lifestyle theory. No such theory currently exists, yet the need for one is underscored by the fact that many daily lifestyle practices involve considerations of health outcomes. An individualist paradigm has influenced concepts of health lifestyles in several disciplines, but this approach neglects the structural dimensions of such lifestyles and has limited applicability to the empirical world. The direction of this article is to present a theory of health lifestyles that includes considerations of both agency and structure, with an emphasis upon restoring structure to its appropriate position. The article begins by defining agency and structure, followed by presentation of a health lifestyle model and the theoretical and empirical studies that support it.

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Teo, Pey, Abdullah Nurul-Fadhilah, Mohd Aziz, Andrew Hills, and Leng Foo. "Lifestyle Practices and Obesity in Malaysian Adolescents." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 11, no. 6 (May 30, 2014): 5828–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph110605828.

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IT., Suraiya, Syamsul Rijal, and Zaenuddin Hudi Prasojo. "Sufism and Religious Practices in Modern Lifestyle." Religió: Jurnal Studi Agama-agama 9, no. 1 (March 20, 2019): 01–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.15642/religio.v9i1.1231.

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Along with scientific development and technological growth which have created a lot of convenience to mankind there have also raised a deep cynicism towards the religious and spiritual aspects of life. Value crisis of humanity marked by the crisis of spirituality increased. Many societies are facing deep crisis. This condition makes the world vulnerable to violence and conflicts. Therefore, modern world society has been challenged to to be more attentive than before to deal with religious and spiritual values. This paper asserts that religion continues to be an important since it combines both personal and public character. Social problems faced by the modern world society such as cultural diversity, environmental preservation, economic equity, and conflict resolution are theologically reflected within the teaching of Islam. Sufism as a form of Islamic spiritualities offers some applicable answers for this phenomenon. In addition, characteristic of Sufism (mysticism) is commonly well known in almost all religions. Sufism cherishes from the private sphere into a popular Islamic culture. This research would like to see how the phenomenon of spiritual movement in the dimension of Sufism has a real powerful to improve social problem of the modern world.

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Cowell, Julia Muennich. "School Nurses’ Lifestyle Practices and Health Status." Journal of School Nursing 34, no. 5 (September 9, 2018): 340. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1059840518795522.

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Jadhav, Prajakta Prakash, Anushka Nitin Kamble, Suraj Bhimarao Kanase, and Dhiraj Kumar Mane. "Knowledge, Attitude and Practices towards Lifestyle Disorders in Rural Communities, in Maharashtra, India." Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences 10, no. 19 (May 5, 2021): 1372–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.14260/jemds/2021/290.

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BACKGROUND Lifestyle is a way of living which depends on geographical, cultural, social, economic, political, and religious characteristics. An individual’s lifestyle is defined by many factors such as his daily physical activities, diet, nutrition, stress, alcohol consumption, drug abuse, smoking, sleep etc. Disorder means disruption in the normal physical or mental functioning of body. Lifestyle disorders are disorders related with way one lives his life. Lifestyle disorders include cardiovascular diseases, musculoskeletal diseases, stroke, depression, chronic obstructive lung disease, diabetes mellitus, chronic respiratory disease, and certain types of cancers like lung cancer, cervical cancer etc. Risk factors for lifestyle disorders are physical inactivity, excessive use of alcohol, smoking, wrong body posture, obesity, unhealthy diet. The focus of this study was to determine the knowledge, attitude and practices in the rural communities towards lifestyle disorders. METHODS This observational study was conducted among 394 participants aged between 20 and 45 years who were selected from Malkapur, Karad, through simple random sampling method. Out of 394 subjects, 181 were males and 213 were females. A structured questionnaire which involved 30 questions based on knowledge, attitude and practices regarding lifestyle disorders was used in this study. RESULTS In this study it was found that, out of 394 participants, 34 % (132) participants had good knowledge regarding lifestyle disorders, 18 % (70) participants had positive attitude towards lifestyle disorders and only 13 % (61) participants were actually practicing healthy habits (P-value = < 0.0001). After comparison between two age groups 20 - 32 years (181) and 33 – 45 years (213) it was indicated that there was significant association between the practice score with P-value of 0.0004 and chi square value of 15.45. CONCLUSIONS Above study concluded that the participants had adequate knowledge about lifestyle disorders, but they lacked positive attitude and healthy practices towards lifestyle disorders. KEY WORDS Lifestyle Disorders, Knowledge, Attitude, Practices

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Walsh, Audrey, Claudette Taylor, and Debbie Brennick. "Factors That Influence Campus Dwelling University Students’ Facility to Practice Healthy Living Guidelines." Canadian Journal of Nursing Research 50, no. 2 (December 20, 2017): 57–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0844562117747434.

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Background Young adult university students living on campus are at an increased risk of developing lifestyle habits that encourage unintentional weight gain. Purpose The purpose of this study was to identify the individual and contextual factors that influence campus dwelling university students’ facility to practice healthy living guidelines that reduce their risk of unintentional weight gain. Lifestyle practices included nutrition, physical activity, and sleep. Methods For seven days, 48 campus dwelling students recorded their activities and reflected on how closely they were able to follow recommended healthy living guidelines. Recorded data were supplemented by follow-up focus groups. All data were analyzed using thematic analysis. Results Students described multiple factors and conditions that influenced their facility to practice healthy living guidelines for nutrition, activity, and sleep. Many students’ lifestyle practices put them at an increased risk of unintentional weight gain. Conclusions The campus environment challenges student’s facility to practice healthy living guidelines. Nurses can intervene to build individual student capacity and to advocate for environmental polices that increase students’ facility to choose lifestyle practices that promote health, lessen their risk of unintentional weight gain, and reduce their risk of developing chronic illness.

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Laakso, Senja. "Experiments in Everyday Mobility: Social Dynamics of Achieving a Sustainable Lifestyle." Sociological Research Online 24, no. 2 (February 4, 2019): 235–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1360780418823222.

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This article presents the results from an experimental project in Jyväskylä, Finland, in which five ‘pioneer households’ aimed to reduce their environmental impacts by a variety of trials in different domains of daily consumption. The article analyses this ‘home lab’ experiment from a practice-theoretical perspective, focusing particularly on everyday mobility and the social interplay that occurs in mobility practices in different contexts. In so doing, the article explores the reasons behind the various outcomes of experimentation and discusses the potential of such experimentation to facilitate transformation in mobility practices. The results suggest that in order to shift daily mobility onto a more sustainable path, the social dynamics related to mobility practices should be better addressed. For example, the negotiations both inside and outside the participating households proved important in challenging the ways of doing mobility. Moreover, the potential for the diffusion of alternative mobility practices was shown to depend on a variety of factors that maintained the normality and acceptability of private driving. Utilising practice-theoretical insights in living laboratories can open new areas for experimentation and facilitate understanding of the shift in everyday practices towards greater sustainability.

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Cheek, Rita E., Joan L. Shaver, and Martha J. Lentz. "Lifestyle Practices and Nocturnal Sleep in Midlife Women with and without Insomnia." Biological Research For Nursing 6, no. 1 (July 2004): 46–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1099800404263763.

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Relationships between common lifestyle practices important to sleep hygiene (e.g., smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, ingesting caffeine, exercising, bedtimes, getting-up times) and nocturnal sleep have not been documented for women with insomnia in their home environments. This community-based sample of 121 women, ages 40 to 55 years, included 92 women who had experienced insomnia for at least 3 months and 29womenwith good-quality sleep. Women recorded lifestyle practices and sleep perceptions (time to fall asleep, awakenings during sleep, feeling rested after sleeping, and overall sleep quality) in diaries while undergoing 6 nights of somnographic sleep monitoring at home. Compared to women with good-quality sleep, women with insomnia reported greater nightto-night variation in perceived sleep variables, poorer overall sleep quality (M = 2.8,SD = 0.7 vs.M = 1.9,SD = 0.5,P < 0.05), and longer times to fall asleep (M = 25 min,SD = 14.2 vs.M = 12.9 min,SD = 5.8,P < 0.05). Correlations between mean individual lifestyle practice scores and mean perceived or somnographic sleep variables were low, ranging from 0 to 0.20. An aggregated sleep hygiene practice score was not associated with either perceived or somnographic sleep variables. Regression analysis using dummy variables showed that combinations of alcohol, caffeine, exercise, smoking, and history of physical disease explained 9% to 19% of variance in perceived or somnographic sleep variables. Lifestyle practices, and combinations thereof, do warrant consideration when assessing or treating insomnia, but these data fail to support a dominant relationship between lifestyle practices and either perceived or somnographic sleep variables.

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Connolly, MA, M. Gulanick, V. Keough, and K. Holm. "Health practices of critical care nurses: are these nurses good role models for patients?" American Journal of Critical Care 6, no. 4 (July 1, 1997): 261–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.4037/ajcc1997.6.4.261.

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BACKGROUND: Few studies have explored the health practices of critical care nurses. Critical care nurses routinely teach patients about using healthy practices such as low-fat diets, exercise, and routine screening examinations. However, it may be even more important that the nurses themselves have a healthy lifestyle, thus serving as role models for patients. Nurses are selling a product, and that product is health. The best salespersons are those who are genuinely committed to their product and model its benefits. Therefore, critical care nurses' healthful practices can have a profound effect on their patients. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this descriptive exploratory study was to examine critical care nurses' responses to three questions about health practices in their daily lives: (1) What are critical care nurses doing currently to stay healthy? (2) Do they anticipate making any changes in their lifestyle in the future? (3) Would they recommend their lifestyle to their patients? METHODS: One hundred twenty-seven critical care nurses attending a midwestern critical care conference completed a two-part questionnaire designed to produce a health profile. In a man-on-the-street approach, 23 nurses participated in an interview via video camera. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data retrieved from the questionnaires. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed for themes with a constant comparative method. RESULTS: More than 70% of the critical care nurses who responded engage in exercise and follow a healthy, low-fat diet. Seventy-one percent said that they anticipate making a change in their lifestyle in the future, and 70% said that they would recommend their lifestyle to their patients. Five themes emerged from the videotaped interviews: (1) Heart-healthy practices predominated the responses. (2) Incorporating a healthy lifestyle was easy for some and a struggle for others. (3) Critical care nurses readily listed barriers to healthy living. (4) The nurses had a positive attitude about their healthy lifestyles and felt optimistic about being role models for their patients. (5) Future plans were either singular in focus or limited to maintenance of current health habits. CONCLUSIONS: The majority of the nurses reported practicing a healthy lifestyle and thought that they were good role models for patients.

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Sathiyabama G, Anita Jaslin I, and Anjali S. "Prevalence of Hypertension and Lifestyle Practices of Adults." International Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences 11, SPL4 (December 24, 2020): 574–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.26452/ijrps.v11ispl4.3900.

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Hypertension is a controllable sickness. It has been accounted for that focused decreases in individuals with hypertension are relied upon to create huge decreases in the weight of cardiovascular illness. As indicated by the seventh report of the Joint National Committee (JNC-7) on counteraction, identification, assessment and treatment of hypertension, appropriation of solid ways of life by all people is basic for the avoidance of hypertension. The aim of the study is to assess the knowledge of hypertension clients regarding lifestyle modification. The research design adopted for the study is a descriptive cross-sectional design. The setting of the study is selected in a rural area in Mapped. The sample size was consists of both Men 25 and Women 25 with the risk of hypertension and practices of hypertension. Non-probability sampling techniques will be used to collect the samples. Those who were having hypertension and practices of hypertension, rural area in Mapped. The tool was a structured questionnaire used to assess the knowledge of the prevalence of hypertension and lifestyle practices of adult. It was observed that the prevalence of hypertension among the rural adult population at mapped in Tamilnadu and was associated with age, gender, education, physical inactivity, alcohol consumption, and overweight and lifestyle practices.

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G. Sablas, Karen. "COPING BEHAVIOR AND LIFESTYLE PRACTICES OF SEAFARERS’ WIFE." LIFE: International Journal of Health and Life-Sciences 3, no. 2 (November 8, 2017): 266–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.20319/lijhls.2017.32.266292.

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Pandey, Arvind Kumar, Sushma R. Kotian, Anne D. Souza, Kavitha Vishal, Raviraj V. Acharya, and Sneha Guruprasad. "Lifestyle Practices Among Medical Students: An Observational Study." Advanced Science Letters 23, no. 3 (March 1, 2017): 1943–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/asl.2017.8494.

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JANCIN, BRUCE. "Lifestyle Practices Key to Breast Ca Risk Reduction." Family Practice News 36, no. 3 (February 2006): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0300-7073(06)72630-5.

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Richard C. Yang and Paul K. Mills. "Dietary and Lifestyle Practices of Hmong in California." Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 19, no. 4 (2008): 1258–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0096.

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Murphy, Ryan Patrick. "Lifestyle." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 26, no. 2 (April 1, 2020): 273–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8141844.

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This essay offers a genealogy of lifestyle, a category widely used in the 1960s to mark dissident kinship networks and sexual practices: single parenting, bisexuality, gender nonconformity, polyamory, cohabitation, and communal living, among many others. I argue that the concept of lifestyle emerged in a desire among white mid-twentieth-century suburbanites for the social and sexual worlds that preceded rapid suburbanization, those most visible in the immigrant industrial metropolis at its peak in the decades immediately before the United States drastically restricted immigration in 1924. Even at the apex of suburbanization in the 1960s, many people refused to comply with the demand for suburban domesticity, staying in the city, joining countercultural groups, or adopting what came to be called alternative lifestyles. But in that act of dissent, urban planners, real estate developers, and marketing experts saw an opportunity and began to sell urban lifestyle landscapes that they claimed would reproduce the sexual heterogeneity of the early twentieth-century industrial metropolis. By the 1980s, as ever more people lived outside the nuclear family, a growing lifestyle market drove up prices in central cities that amplified the class and race exclusions that the social movements of the 1960s contested. This article is therefore both a critical and a recuperative reading of lifestyle, one that uses the category to show how dissident sexualities can be both the harbinger of the niche-marketed gentrified city and an incitement to new ways of living and loving that advance the pursuit of economic justice.

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Braman, Marc, and Mara Edison. "How to Create a Successful Lifestyle Medicine Practice." American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine 11, no. 5 (March 8, 2017): 404–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1559827617696296.

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A lifestyle medicine (LM) practice aims to treat the whole person, with a focus on addressing the root lifestyle causes of disease. Creating a practice in LM comes with an array of challenges. Utilizing different payment systems and practice models, such as cash, traditional insurance, Direct Primary Care model, or concierge systems, allows for the incorporation of more LM services and ensures sustainability in the practice. One must develop a sound business model and aim to keep costs low. Optimizing coding, taking advantage of additional LM services, and expanding service formats to group visits or telemedicine are all creative ways to incorporate and develop LM practices. Anticipation of new challenges and flexibility in practice models and payment systems allows one to be successful in starting or transitioning to an LM practice.

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Egger, Garry, John Stevens, and Christopher Ganora. "Establishing Proof of Concept for Clinical Processes in Lifestyle Medicine." American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine 13, no. 5 (January 3, 2018): 505–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1559827617750896.

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Lifestyle medicine is a relatively new discipline, designed to improve the management of lifestyle and environmentally induced chronic diseases. As such it is evolving new skills, tools, and procedures. But these are often not assessed for their potential before being adopted in practice. Proof of concept (PoC) is an initial stage of testing characteristic of new product or process development in the commercial world. It can be equally applied to new processes and practices in lifestyle medicine.

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Bektas, Gülcan, Femke Boelsma, Vivianne E. Baur, Jacob C. Seidell, and S. Coosje Dijkstra. "Parental Perspectives and Experiences in Relation to Lifestyle-Related Practices in the First Two Years of a Child’s Life: A Qualitative Study in a Disadvantaged Neighborhood in The Netherlands." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 16 (August 12, 2020): 5838. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165838.

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The first two years of a child’s life are a critical period in preventing several lifestyle-related health problems. A qualitative study was conducted to explore parental experiences and perspectives in relation to lifestyle-related child-rearing practices in order to minimize risk factors at an early stage. Data were collected through interviews (n = 25) and focus groups (n = 4) with parents of children aged 0–2 years, in a disadvantaged neighborhood in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Results showed that parents were often uncertain about a number of lifestyle-related practices. Ambiguity also appeared regarding the parents’ intentions to engage in certain practices and what they were able to achieve in everyday life. In addition, parents experienced strong sociocultural influences from their family, which interfered with their ability to make their own decisions on lifestyle-related practices. Parents also expressed a need for peer-support and confirmation of their practices. Future studies should focus on supporting parents in their parental practices during the first two years of their child’s life. Any such study should take into account the specific sociocultural context accompanying lifestyle-related parental practices.

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Lubi, Kadi. "The adaptation of everyday practices in the adoption of chronic illness." Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 23, no. 3 (November 23, 2017): 325–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459317742263.

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This article uses social practice theory to examine the role of information-seeking in the maintenance of existing lifestyle and illness-related adjustments in the context of chronic illnesses. The research findings are derived from a thematic analysis of 16 semi-structured in-depth interviews with Estonian Parkinson’s disease patients. The coding scheme bases on the four practice elements outlined by Schatzki (practical understandings, rules, teleological structures and general understandings) and other categories related to chronic illness self-management skills, bodily movements, daily routines and information-seeking practices. The findings reveal that people with chronic illness value maintaining their existing lifestyles as long as possible and the willingness to seek out illness-related information is related to the severity and duration of the disease. These findings suggest that effective illness-related communication that supports self-management should provide patients with possibilities to adjust and switch between practices in a time and a pace that is natural and acceptable to them.

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Peker, Gurbet. "Djuren i den rurala livsstilsmigrationen." Budkavlen 99 (November 10, 2020): 90–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.37447/bk.99535.

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Animals and Rural Lifestyle Migration Gurbet Peker Keywords: Lifestyle migration, rural idyll, animal husbandry, interspecies relationships This article examines the role of animals and animal husbandry in rural lifestyle migration to the Gotlandic countryside. One area of interest is the significance of animals and animal husbandry as part of migrants’ notions of the rural idyll and the place they seek. The article also describes and analyses animal-related everyday practices and interspecies relationships that are developed between migrants and animals. The empirical material has been collected using ethnographic methods based on observations and qualitative interviews. The researcher also emerged herself in aspects of the rural lifestyle migration being studied. The informants have all left the city of Stockholm in favour of life in the Gotlandic countryside, where they devote themselves to small-scale animal husbandry and keep sheep, horses, chickens and other animals. The theoretical foundation is that humans and other animals are in a state of constant becoming-with and, thus, create each other’s lifeworlds. The focus is on analysing everyday practices and how interspecies relationships shape the migrants and their lifestyles. At the same time, the researcher also looks at the way in which discourses affect the migrants’ rural lifestyle migration, both as cultural preconceptions and everyday practices. The results show that animals and animal husbandry play a central role in the rural idyll and the place that migrants seek. The interspecies relationships are also important for the informants’ socialisation and establishment processes in the Gotlandic countryside. The migrants find their relationships with the animals meaningful and crucial for the established lifestyle. These close everyday relationships lead the informants to renegotiate aspects of their view of animals as well as their view of eating meat. This lifestyle with animals also involves emotional challenges related to slaughter, an aspect of animal husbandry that the migrants find stressful. The interspecies relationships documented in the material are consistently characterised by ambivalence and constant renegotiations. In summary, the article shows that the animals and the animal-related practices are crucial for the lifestyle to which the migrants aspire, the everyday life they establish, as well as for the migration project as a whole.

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Krska, Janet, Ruth du Plessis, and Hannah Chellaswamy. "Implementation of NHS Health Checks in general practice: variation in delivery between practices and practitioners." Primary Health Care Research & Development 17, no. 04 (November 2, 2015): 385–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1463423615000493.

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AimTo evaluate NHS Health Check implementation in terms of frequency of data recording, advice provided, referrals to community-based lifestyle support services, statin prescribing and new diagnoses, and to assess variation in these aspects between practices and health professionals involved in delivery.BackgroundMost NHS Health Checks are delivered by general practices, but little detail is known about the extent of variation in how they are delivered in different practices and by different health professionals.MethodsThis was an observational study conducted in a purposively selected sample of 13 practices in Sefton, North West England. Practices used previously recorded information from their clinical management systems to identify patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk ⩾20%, a potentially cost-effective approach. The evaluation was conducted during the first year of delivery in Sefton. Data were extracted from medical records of all patients identified, regardless of Health Check attendance.FindingsOf the 2892 patients identified by the 13 practices, 1070 had received an NHS Health Check at the time of the study. Of these, only 936 (87.5%) had a recorded CVD risk score, with risk ⩾20% confirmed in 92.0%. Estimated risk category was correct in 456/677 (67.4%) of patients with estimated and actual risk scores.Significant variation was found between practices and health professionals in parameters recorded, tests requested, advice given and referrals for lifestyle support. Only 45.3% of patients had body mass index, smoking, alcohol, exercise, blood pressure and cholesterol all recorded.Lifestyle advice and referral into lifestyle services were documented in 80.6% and 6.4% of attenders, respectively, again with significant variation between practices and professionals. Statin prescribing rose in attenders from 19.6% to 34.6%. A similar proportion of attenders and non-attenders received new diagnoses.ConclusionEffort is required to reduce variation in how practices deliver and follow-up NHS Health Checks, to ensure the consistency of the programme.

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Yilmaz, Medine, Deniz Sanli, Mujde Ucgun, Nur Sahin Kaya, and Yasemin Tokem. "Lifestyle Behaviors and Early Diagnosis Practices of Cancer Patients." Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 14, no. 5 (May 30, 2013): 3269–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.7314/apjcp.2013.14.5.3269.

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Webb, Victoria L., and Thomas A. Wadden. "Intensive Lifestyle Intervention for Obesity: Principles, Practices, and Results." Gastroenterology 152, no. 7 (May 2017): 1752–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2017.01.045.

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Maiko, Saneta M. "Book Review: Holy Boldness: Practices of an Evangelistic Lifestyle." Missiology: An International Review 33, no. 2 (April 2005): 244–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182960503300226.

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Dolan, Eimear, Helen O'Connor, Adrian McGoldrick, Gillian O'Loughlin, Deirdre Lyons, and Giles Warrington. "Nutritional, lifestyle, and weight control practices of professional jockeys." Journal of Sports Sciences 29, no. 8 (May 2011): 791–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2011.560173.

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Sahli, Michelle W., Heather M. Ochs-Balcom, Suzen M. Moeller, William E. Brady, Timothy W. Tolford, and Amy E. Millen. "Findings from Optometrists' Practices in Advising about Lifestyle Study." Optometry and Vision Science 97, no. 8 (July 31, 2020): 598–605. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/opx.0000000000001555.

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Mosher, Catherine E., Isaac M. Lipkus, Richard Sloane, William E. Kraus, Denise Clutter Snyder, Bercedis Peterson, Lee W. Jones, and Wendy Demark-Wahnefried. "Cancer Survivors' Health Worries and Associations with Lifestyle Practices." Journal of Health Psychology 13, no. 8 (November 2008): 1105–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359105308095964.

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Harvey, Alison. "From lab to lifestyle: translating genomics into healthcare practices." New Genetics and Society 30, no. 4 (December 2011): 309–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14636778.2011.592005.

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Bhavanani, Ananda Balayogi. "Yoga Practices for Prevention and Management of Lifestyle Disorders." Annals of SBV 2, no. 2 (2013): 32–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10085-2220.

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Jakobsen, Pernille Ravn, Jeanette Reffstrup Christensen, Jesper Bo Nielsen, Jens Søndergaard, Dorte Ejg Jarbøl, Michael Hecht Olsen, Jens Steen Nielsen, Jette Kolding Kristensen, and Carl J. Brandt. "Identification of Important Factors Affecting Use of Digital Individualised Coaching and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in General Practice: A Qualitative Feasibility Study." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 8 (April 8, 2021): 3924. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18083924.

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Most type 2 diabetes patients are treated in general practice and there is a need of developing and implementing efficient lifestyle interventions. eHealth interventions have shown to be effective in promoting a healthy lifestyle. The purpose of this study was to test the feasibility, including the identification of factors of importance, when offering digital lifestyle coaching to type 2 diabetes patients in general practice. We conducted a qualitative feasibility study with focus group interviews in four general practices. We identified two overall themes and four subthemes: (1) the distribution of roles and lifestyle interventions in general practice (subthemes: external and internal distribution of roles) and (2) the pros and cons for digital lifestyle interventions in general practice (subthemes: access to real life data and change in daily routines). We conclude that for digital lifestyle coaching to be feasible in a general practice setting, it was of great importance that the general practitioners and practice nurses knew the role and content of the intervention. In general, there was a positive attitude in the general practice setting towards referring type 2 diabetes patients to digital lifestyle intervention if it was easy to refer the patients and if easily understandable and accessible feedback was implemented into the electronic health record. It was important that the digital lifestyle intervention was flexible and offered healthcare providers in general practice an opportunity to follow the type 2 diabetes patient closely.

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Harkin, Nicole, Emily Johnston, Tony Mathews, Yu Guo, Arthur Schwartzbard, Jeffrey Berger, and Eugenia Gianos. "Physicians’ Dietary Knowledge, Attitudes, and Counseling Practices: The Experience of a Single Health Care Center at Changing the Landscape for Dietary Education." American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine 13, no. 3 (November 23, 2018): 292–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1559827618809934.

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Morbidity and mortality associated with cardiovascular disease can be significantly modified through lifestyle interventions, yet there is little emphasis on nutrition and lifestyle in medical education. Improving nutrition education for future physicians would likely lead to improved preparedness to counsel patients on lifestyle interventions. An online anonymous survey of medical residents, cardiology fellows, and faculty in Internal Medicine and Cardiology was conducted at New York University Langone Health assessing basic nutritional knowledge, self-reported attitudes and practices. A total of 248 physicians responded (26.7% response rate). Nutrition knowledge was fair, but few (13.5%) felt adequately trained to discuss nutrition with patients. A majority (78.4%) agreed that additional training in nutrition would allow them to provide better clinical care. Based on survey responses, a dedicated continuing medical education (CME) conference was developed to improve knowledge and lifestyle counseling skills of healthcare providers. In postconference evaluations, attendees reported improved knowledge of evidence-based lifestyle interventions. Most noted that they would prescribe a Mediterranean or plant-based diet and would make changes to their practice based on the conference. An annual CME conference on diet and lifestyle can effectively help interested providers overcome barriers to lifestyle change in clinical practice through improved nutrition knowledge.

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Hâncu, Anca. "Lifestyle Medicine – New Concept, Innovative Discipline." Romanian Journal of Diabetes Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases 26, no. 3 (September 1, 2019): 305–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rjdnmd-2019-0031.

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Abstract A large percentage 63% of premature deaths and chronic diseases could be prevented by adhering to healthy dietary patterns, being physically active and avoid smoking. The concept of lifestyle medicine introduced 20 years ago by Rippe is defined as the integration of modern lifestyle practices into evidence-based medicine, in order to lower risk factors or to be support for chronic therapies. A new taxonomy is proposed in lifestyle medicine, with determinants, as drivers for chronic diseases, anthropogens and metaflammation, the metabolic inflammatory state. Other possible determinants are proposed for lack os scope in life, estrangement and lost identity. Despite all health messages, healthy behaviors are exceptions, not the rule. It will be important in the future to change how practitioners will support individuals in their efforts to live healthier. More psychological and social factors should be analyzed. Many doctors are not self-confident with prescribing healthy lifestyle or nutritional recommendations. Creating a new discipline should foster development of preventive recommendations. General practitioners will need specific academic trainings to learn how to promote recommendations for lifestyle changes for health, for prevention and for diseases management, starting by adopting themselves healthy lifestyles.

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Al-Bannay, Hana R., Tal Jarus, Lyn Jongbloed, and Elizabeth Dean. "Discordance between lifestyle-related health beliefs and behaviours of Saudi women in Dammam." Health Education Journal 76, no. 5 (May 3, 2017): 569–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0017896917705160.

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Objective: Women living in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia including in the Eastern Province have a high prevalence of lifestyle-related conditions for which targeted health education strategies are needed. This study’s objective was to explore their self-reported health status and the congruence of their lifestyle-related health beliefs and practices to inform health education programme development. Methods: A cross section of community-living Saudi women ( N = 407) living in Dammam (the capital of the Eastern Province) was sampled from regional health centres. Participants completed an interview survey questionnaire about their health status and their lifestyle-related health beliefs and practices. Results: In all, 44% of participants reported having an average but not excellent health. This finding was at odds with their unequivocal, evidence-supported beliefs about the positive relationship between exercise, good nutrition, not smoking and manageable stress, with health (⩾97%). Despite these strong beliefs, participants reported suboptimal levels of exercise, nutritional choices, stress and sleep quality and quantity for maximal health and wellbeing. Conclusion: Studies are warranted to explore and explain marked discrepancy between the positive health beliefs and lifestyle-related health practices of Saudi women living in Dammam, and to design effective health promotion education programmes to address this gap. Improving Saudi women’s health by narrowing the lifestyle-related health belief–practice gap may also maximise the health of families, given women’s pivotal role in managing the family, as well as individual health.

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Dean, Elizabeth, Alison Greig, Sue Murphy, Robin Roots, Nadine Nembhard, Anne Rankin, Lesley Bainbridge, Joseph Anthony, Alison M. Hoens, and S. Jayne Garland. "Raising the Priority of Lifestyle-Related Noncommunicable Diseases in Physical Therapy Curricula." Physical Therapy 96, no. 7 (July 1, 2016): 940–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.2522/ptj.20150141.

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Abstract Given their enormous socioeconomic burdens, lifestyle-related noncommunicable diseases (heart disease, cancer, chronic lung disease, hypertension, stroke, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and obesity) have become priorities for the World Health Organization and health service delivery systems. Health care systems have been criticized for relative inattention to the gap between knowledge and practice, as it relates to preventing and managing noncommunicable diseases. Physical therapy is a profession that can contribute effectively to patients'/clients' lifestyle behavior changes at the upstream end of prevention and management. Efforts by entry-to-practice physical therapist education programs to align curricula with epidemiological trends toward best health care practices are varied. One explanation may be the lack of a frame of reference for reducing the knowledge translation gap. The purpose of this article is to provide a current perspective on epidemiological indicators and societal priorities to inform physical therapy curriculum content. Such content needs to include health examination/evaluation tools and health behavior change interventions that are consistent with contemporary values, directions, and practices of physical therapy. These considerations provide a frame of reference for curriculum change. Based on 5 years of experience and dialogue among curriculum stakeholders, an example of how epidemiologically informed and evidence-based best health care practices may be systematically integrated into physical therapy curricula to maximize patient/client health and conventional physical therapy outcomes is provided. This novel approach can serve as an example to other entry-to-practice physical therapist education programs of how to align their curricula with societal health priorities, specifically, noncommunicable diseases. The intentions are to stimulate dialogue about effectively integrating health-based competencies into entry-level education and advancing best practice, as opposed to simply evidence-based practice, across professions and health services and to establish accreditable, health promotion practice standards for physical therapy.

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Donohue, David, Wayne Dysinger, and Susan Benigas. "Formation of a National Lifestyle Medicine Network to Benefit Patients and Lifestyle Medicine Providers." American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine 13, no. 6 (September 11, 2019): 548–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1559827619874297.

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The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) is forming a Lifestyle Medicine Provider Network (LMPN). The goal of this network is 2-fold: (1) to provide significant benefits to patients by focusing on the adoption of intensive evidence-based lifestyle medicine (LM) therapies to treat and reverse chronic disease and (2) to benefit LM providers by supporting their practice operations and optimizing contracting and reimbursement opportunities. The 2 phases of the network development will include (1) network formation and practice standardization and (2) deployment for group contracting. LMPN will be organized as a special project of the ACLM, with leadership provided through the ACLM LMPN Task Force. As part of this first phase, ACLM will devote the necessary resources to establish the network and promote LM training, certification, and sharing of best practices across the network. The second phase will necessitate the establishment of a separate corporate entity, enabling the acquisition of the required capital and expertise to fully realize the potential of LMPN deployment. Strategic direction will be provided by a LMPN Board of Advisors, consisting of select network members as well as select members of ACLM’s Board of Directors. The first priority of the LMPN will be to recruit interested and qualifying LM practitioners and standardize the LM approach and process of care delivery, starting with high-value services, such as chronic care management. The focus on maximizing existing provider program incentives avails the LMPN the fastest and most efficient path to demonstrating value to its members and to its client base.

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Schuster, Tonya L., Marnie Dobson, Maritza Jauregui, and Robert H. I. Blanks. "Wellness Lifestyles II: Modeling the Dynamic of Wellness, Health Lifestyle Practices, and Network Spinal Analysis™." Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 10, no. 2 (April 2004): 357–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/107555304323062356.

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