Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.32398/CJHP.V16I2.2092
J. Snyder, A. Kanekar, B. Prince
A contributing factor to the U.S. national obesity epidemic is the built environment-the physical aspects of a community in which we live, work and engage in our everyday activities. Therefore, modifying the built environment can be a solution to address the epidemic. Such an example is the Arkansas Coalition for Obesity Prevention (ArCOP) Growing Healthy Communities (GHC) initiative. The GHC initiative encourages community health workers, health education specialists, government officials and other stakeholders to embrace community collaboration in efforts to improve built environments by equipping them with resources that increase community access to healthy foods and physical activities to help combat obesity. ArCOP to date has funded 100+ GHC communities in Arkansas. One of the five communities being highlighted by the authors for their GHC efforts includes: the University of Arkansas at Little Rock University District community, in which the authors have contributed to implementing various GHC projects for the residents of this community. The GHC, a state initiative, has implications for national and global use, and it is emerging as an exemplary best practice model. It provides communities with effective strategies to help address the health inequities of obesity, through prevention and intervention measures to improve health behaviors.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.32398/CJHP.V16I2.2091
L. Outland
Weight loss is commonly recommended to prevent cardiometabolic diseases like hypertension, heart disease, and diabetes. Rather than lead to a long-term healthy weight, dieting can result in weight cycling, which has been shown to be more harmful to health than being overweight. An emerging solution to prevent both excess weight gain and weight cycling is to avoid extremes of hunger and fullness by eating intuitively. Intuitive eating or mindful eating means tuning into interoceptive cues of hunger and fullness to guide when and how much to eat. Mindful eating has been linked to both heart, and metabolic health. It is, however, often labor intensive to retrain chronic dieters to intuitively eat what they need, and nothing more. This study describes a mobile health application that mimics an in-office intuitive eating coaching session. It utilizes homeostasis concepts, and components of the Health Belief Model; including, cues to action, phone prompts, minimal barriers to use, and self-efficacy through repeated immediate feedback. It is expected that this innovation could assist or replace the more labor-intensive in-person methods that exist to train previous dieters to eat intuitively. An enhanced description of this mobile application, the PaleoIntuitive app, is presented in this paper along with a discussion of its expected impact on health behavior.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.32398/CJHP.V16I2.2090
Y. Huang
Background: The effects of smoke from tobacco products are harmful to pregnant mothers and their unborn children. The problem is not limited to mothers who themselves smoke; fathers who are smokers expose expectant mothers to secondhand smoke. This review identifies and examines the role fathers play in exposing pregnant mothers to passive smoke that leads to secondary medical conditions for women and their children. Methods: The study examined 70 articles from peer-reviewed journals in the following databases: Scopus, Science Direct, Wiley Online, MEDLINE, ProQuest Central, and PsycINFO. The literature search focused on articles with publication dates from 2006 to 2016. Results: A total of 10 articles provided evidence for various effects of secondhand smoke such as asthma, spontaneous abortions, stillbirths, congenital malformations, and low birth weight. Furthermore, the literature presented an extensive background regarding the paternal role in a pregnant mother’s exposure to smoke. Conclusion: Paternal smoking during pregnancy has a significant effect on the health of the mother and the child during pregnancy. Health care professionals should reinforce safety measures for pregnant women to prevent medical disorders resulting from exposure to smoking
{"title":"Father’s Role in Secondhand Smoke Exposure During Pregnancy","authors":"Y. Huang","doi":"10.32398/CJHP.V16I2.2090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32398/CJHP.V16I2.2090","url":null,"abstract":"Background: The effects of smoke from tobacco products are harmful to pregnant mothers and their unborn children. The problem is not limited to mothers who themselves smoke; fathers who are smokers expose expectant mothers to secondhand smoke. This review identifies and examines the role fathers play in exposing pregnant mothers to passive smoke that leads to secondary medical conditions for women and their children. Methods: The study examined 70 articles from peer-reviewed journals in the following databases: Scopus, Science Direct, Wiley Online, MEDLINE, ProQuest Central, and PsycINFO. The literature search focused on articles with publication dates from 2006 to 2016. Results: A total of 10 articles provided evidence for various effects of secondhand smoke such as asthma, spontaneous abortions, stillbirths, congenital malformations, and low birth weight. Furthermore, the literature presented an extensive background regarding the paternal role in a pregnant mother’s exposure to smoke. Conclusion: Paternal smoking during pregnancy has a significant effect on the health of the mother and the child during pregnancy. Health care professionals should reinforce safety measures for pregnant women to prevent medical disorders resulting from exposure to smoking","PeriodicalId":87431,"journal":{"name":"Californian journal of health promotion","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87611791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.32398/CJHP.V16I2.2087
D. Edens, Adriana L Lopez, L. Kessler, B. Burns-Whitmore
Background and Purpose: In California, approximately 3.2 million students participated in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP in 2015). It is estimated that Latino students received over 760,000 meals through the NSLP program. This study evaluates factors that influence middle and high school Latino students’ participation in the (NSLP). Methods: Study participants were a convenience sample of students (n = 232) utilizing a 22-question survey tool. The independent variables were grade level, gender, ethnicity, perceived social stigma, competitive foods served on and off campus, peer influences and parental influences. The dependent variable was participation in the NSLP. T-test, ANOVA, and Stepwise multiple regression were used to answer the research questions. Results: Latino students were not significantly different from non-Latino students in their participation rates in the NSLP. There were several significant predictors of NSLP participation for Latino students. Meal eligibility was the only significant predictor of participation in the NSLP for Latino students who are low-participators. Conclusions: Latino students are different from non-Latino students in the factors that influence their participation in the NSLP. Future research is needed to clarify the factors impacting Latino NSLP participation.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.32398/cjhp.v16i2.2244
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Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.32398/CJHP.V16I2.2088
K. Wilson, Brittany Kato, Elia Garcia
Background and Purpose: Adding outdoor gym equipment to a park has the potential to influence the physical activity of park users. This study piloted the feasibility of utilizing kinesiology students as physical activity coaches to promote physical activity and to motivate park users to use the outdoor exercise equipment in public parks. Methods: Pairs of student coaches (N=24) were placed in 10 parks throughout four cities for a total of 12 coaching sessions per week for 11 weeks. Students were trained in motivational interviewing techniques and behavior change skills to incorporate during their interactions with park users. Data was collected using attendance at the coaching sessions as well as the Systems for Observing Play and Recreation in Communities to scan park use before and after the pilot. Descriptive statistics and dependent t-tests were used to compare the difference in park use. Results: Students coached 205 residents and tracked 475 residents using the exercise equipment. There was no significant difference in park use (p=.066) or exercise equipment use (p=0.58), although numbers were lower after the pilot. However, the percentage of vigorously active users on the exercise equipment remained constant (37.9% vs. 36.3%, p=. 91). Conclusion: Despite no differences in use over time, the student coaches engaged with many users, supporting the feasibility of this approach.
背景和目的:在公园中增加户外健身设备可能会影响公园使用者的身体活动。本研究对利用运动机能学学生作为体育活动教练促进体育活动，激励公园使用者使用公园户外运动器材的可行性进行了试点。方法:对学生教练(N=24)被安排在四个城市的10个公园，每周共进行12次辅导，为期11周。学生们接受了动机性访谈技巧和行为改变技巧方面的培训，以融入他们与公园使用者的互动中。通过参加培训课程以及观察社区游戏和娱乐系统来收集数据，以扫描试点前后的公园使用情况。采用描述性统计和相关t检验比较公园使用的差异。结果:学生们指导了205名居民，并跟踪了475名使用健身器材的居民。在公园的使用(p= 0.066)和运动器材的使用(p=0.58)方面没有显著差异，尽管在试点后数字有所下降。然而，在运动器材上剧烈活动的用户比例保持不变(37.9% vs. 36.3%， p=。91)。结论:尽管随着时间的推移，使用情况没有差异，但学生教练与许多用户接触，支持该方法的可行性。
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Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.32398/CJHP.V16I2.2086
Sarah E. Roth, Monique Gill, S. Puri, Alec M. Chan-Golston, C. Crespi, Stephanie L. Albert, Lindsay N. Rice, Michael L. Prelip
Background Federal nutrition campaigns are designed to make dietary recommendations accessible but have not been extensively evaluated. This paper explores whether knowledge of nutrition campaigns is associated with dietary behavior among young adolescents. Methods Cross-sectional survey data were collected from 4,773 middle school students in Southern California. Hierarchical logistic regression models were used to assess the association between dietary behaviors and nutrition campaign knowledge, controlling for gender and ethnicity. Results Knowledge of the Fruit & Veggies-More Matters campaign was associated with increased odds of high fruit and vegetable consumption, knowledge of the MyPlate campaign was associated with neither, and both were associated with increased odds of not consuming soda. Conclusion Overall, low percentages of students demonstrated knowledge of nutrition campaigns, and knowledge was associated with some dietary behaviors. More research is needed to examine the impact of nutrition campaigns while also accounting for other psychosocial and environmental factors that may affect soda, fruit, and vegetable consumption.
{"title":"Nutrition Campaign Knowledge and Dietary Behavior in Middle School Students.","authors":"Sarah E. Roth, Monique Gill, S. Puri, Alec M. Chan-Golston, C. Crespi, Stephanie L. Albert, Lindsay N. Rice, Michael L. Prelip","doi":"10.32398/CJHP.V16I2.2086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32398/CJHP.V16I2.2086","url":null,"abstract":"Background\u0000Federal nutrition campaigns are designed to make dietary recommendations accessible but have not been extensively evaluated. This paper explores whether knowledge of nutrition campaigns is associated with dietary behavior among young adolescents.\u0000\u0000\u0000Methods\u0000Cross-sectional survey data were collected from 4,773 middle school students in Southern California. Hierarchical logistic regression models were used to assess the association between dietary behaviors and nutrition campaign knowledge, controlling for gender and ethnicity.\u0000\u0000\u0000Results\u0000Knowledge of the Fruit & Veggies-More Matters campaign was associated with increased odds of high fruit and vegetable consumption, knowledge of the MyPlate campaign was associated with neither, and both were associated with increased odds of not consuming soda.\u0000\u0000\u0000Conclusion\u0000Overall, low percentages of students demonstrated knowledge of nutrition campaigns, and knowledge was associated with some dietary behaviors. More research is needed to examine the impact of nutrition campaigns while also accounting for other psychosocial and environmental factors that may affect soda, fruit, and vegetable consumption.","PeriodicalId":87431,"journal":{"name":"Californian journal of health promotion","volume":"20 1","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87687305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.32398/CJHP.V16I2.2093
A. Ramezani, Lori K. Roberto, Alex L. Andrade, C. Demesa, Ryan Carver, R. Khan, L. Aria, D. Rockers, Lisa A. Barry, C. Rasmussen, Saideh Malekafzali, Maji Singh Aurora, C. Cohen, Carrie G. Rogers, S. Lloyd
America’s healthcare providers and patients are challenged by an overwhelming high prevalence of chronic pain and opioid misuse. Approximately 23.4 million adults suffer from daily pain and in 2014, nearly 61% of Americans who died from drug overdoses used an opioid analgesic. Unrecognized addiction, untreated psychiatric comorbidity, and lack of training/education for providers and patients are factors associated with chronic pain and opioid misuse. Communication strategies and structures are required to enhance collaboration between multidisciplinary providers and institutions. On September 28, 2017, an open panel discussion with pain specialists from three major academic and medical institutes in Sacramento, California initiated an integrative community solutions process to optimize pain education best practices and to protect public health. The attendees represented a wide range of healthcare disciplines. This commentary describes ideas derived from dialogue between community attendees and panelists, which considers both healthcare provider characteristics and patients’ cultural backgrounds. Providers of most disciplines underscored the need to share information and institute cross-disciplinary training on pain and behavioral health treatments. In conclusion, we outline an integrative community-based framework, namely the Community Solutions Process (Co-Solve), to help other communities to implement and derive their own action-oriented solutions unique to their population.
{"title":"Taking on a Community Solutions Process (Co-Solve) to the Pain and Opioid Epidemic","authors":"A. Ramezani, Lori K. Roberto, Alex L. Andrade, C. Demesa, Ryan Carver, R. Khan, L. Aria, D. Rockers, Lisa A. Barry, C. Rasmussen, Saideh Malekafzali, Maji Singh Aurora, C. Cohen, Carrie G. Rogers, S. Lloyd","doi":"10.32398/CJHP.V16I2.2093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32398/CJHP.V16I2.2093","url":null,"abstract":"America’s healthcare providers and patients are challenged by an overwhelming high prevalence of chronic pain and opioid misuse. Approximately 23.4 million adults suffer from daily pain and in 2014, nearly 61% of Americans who died from drug overdoses used an opioid analgesic. Unrecognized addiction, untreated psychiatric comorbidity, and lack of training/education for providers and patients are factors associated with chronic pain and opioid misuse. Communication strategies and structures are required to enhance collaboration between multidisciplinary providers and institutions. On September 28, 2017, an open panel discussion with pain specialists from three major academic and medical institutes in Sacramento, California initiated an integrative community solutions process to optimize pain education best practices and to protect public health. The attendees represented a wide range of healthcare disciplines. This commentary describes ideas derived from dialogue between community attendees and panelists, which considers both healthcare provider characteristics and patients’ cultural backgrounds. Providers of most disciplines underscored the need to share information and institute cross-disciplinary training on pain and behavioral health treatments. In conclusion, we outline an integrative community-based framework, namely the Community Solutions Process (Co-Solve), to help other communities to implement and derive their own action-oriented solutions unique to their population.","PeriodicalId":87431,"journal":{"name":"Californian journal of health promotion","volume":"80 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77280271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Background and purpose: The reduction of cost and ease of using core laboratories or commercial sequencing companies have allowed biomedical and health researchers alike to employ reference-based genomic or transcriptomic sequencing (RNA-seq) projects to expand their work. Non-reference based data analysis, in cases of inexperienced researchers, become more challenging despite the availability of many open source and commercial software programs.
Methods: We performed de novo assembly of RNA-seq data obtained from a non-model organism (Eastern Newt skin) to compare data output of two commercially available software workflows.
Results: Our results show that the software packages performed satisfactorily albeit with differences in how the annotated and novel transcripts were identified and listed.
Conclusion: Overall, we conclude that the use of commercial software platforms has a clear advantage to that of open source programs because of convenience with data analysis workflows. One caveat is that users need to know the software's basic algorithm and technical approach, in order to determine the precision and validity of the data output. Thus, it is imperative that researchers fully evaluate the software according to their needs to determine their suitability.
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Pub Date : 2018-06-01DOI: 10.32398/CJHP.V16I1.2118
A. McEligot, M. Cuajungco, S. Behseta, Laura Chandler, Harmanpreet Chauhan, S. Mitra, P. Rusmevichientong, S. Charles
Big Data refers to data that are so large and complex, making it difficult or impossible to manage with traditional computing/software and hardware (Frost 2015; Bellazzi 2014). The volume of electronic data worldwide, just in the healthcare field, is overwhelming with an estimate of nearly 1 billion terabytes of data, and continuing to exponentially grow to zetabytes of data (Cottle, Hoover, Kanwal, Kohn, Strome & Treister, 2013). Not only is the volume of Big Data staggering, but the variety and veracity of the various forms and types of data (structured and unstructured) make it a critical area for research, training and education (Cottle et al., 2013).
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