Nutritional and Metabolic Disease, Sedentary Behavior
Conditions
Brief summary
Women will participate in a workshop within a group and individual meetings. the workshop will include providing information regarding guidelines for healthy eating, engaging in physical activity, personal training tools to build self-efficacy and to encourage implementing a healthy life style.
Detailed description
Participants are interviewed for eligibility and if appropriate sign consent and undergo measurements of weight, height and blood pressure. At the first meeting there is a pre-study questionnaires and initial coaching session Eight group meetings will take place and will include: up-to-date knowledge on nutrition (by a dietitian), exercise (by a physiotherapist) and coping skills for stress (by a psychologist). Additionally the meetings will also include coaching tools which the participants will practice during the session. The multidisciplinary team has been trained in coaching tools to evaluate in group settings. In the last meeting, participants will be asked to fill out post study questionnaires measurements will be taken (weight and blood pressure).
Interventions
BEHAVIORALCoaching and health information intervention
8 session intervention with,group meetings with coaching tools and health information on nutrition and physical activity and coping with stress.
Sponsors
Hadassah Medical Organization
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Masking description
each participant will receive a coding number and the key will be kept in the primary investigator offices.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* over age 18 * Women who agree to fill out questionnaires * Women who agree to attend sessions (attending 80% of sessions) * Women who are fluent in Hebrew
Exclusion criteria
* Pregnancy * Women with significant untreated psychiatric diagnosis * Insulin-dependent diabetes * End-stage renal disease * Unstable Angina * Women who are not fluent in Hebrew * Women currently treated by multidisciplinary staff (eg, heart failure, cardio rehabilitation) * Women who have been enrolled in other programs of the center at the discretion of the staff will not be included in the study * Women who do not want to make a healthy lifestyle change * Failure to reach 75% of sessions during the study.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| self efficacy | 1 year | Change in (improved) self efficacy as assessed by Tschannen-Moran Moore score |
| Behavioral change | 1 year | achieved 80% of the goal they set in first meeting or achieved the goal 80% of the time |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| nutrition | 1 year | adaptation of the Israeli Ministry of Health Diet Scale |
| physical activity | 1 year | increase in self-report of exercise in minutes per week |
| weight | 1 year | kg |
| experiential avoidance | 1 year | Reduction on experiential avoidance as measured on the Brief Experiential Avoidance Scale |
Countries
Israel
Contacts
Primary ContactDonna Zwas, MD MPH
Backup ContactRivka May, BS
Outcome results
None listed