Sentences with phrase «health behaviour research»

Keywords: Overeating, reduction dieting, body weight dissatisfaction, gender differences, population - based health behaviour research

In the first study, Andrea Smith (Health Behaviour Research Centre, University College London, and Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge) and colleagues examined the results of 23 cohort studies on the relationship between physical activity (PA) and incidence of T2D.

The research, from the Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre at UCL (University College London), is the largest study of its kind.

Professor Robert West, Health Behaviour Research Centre at UCL, said: «England is sometimes singled out as being too positive in its attitude to e-cigarettes.

Researchers at the Health Behaviour Research Centre at UCL analysed data from the Smoking Toolkit study — which provides the latest information on smoking and smoking cessation in England — and data on the percentage of the smokers who set a quit date with Stop Smoking Services.

Professor Robert West, Cancer Research UK's director of tobacco studies at the Health Behaviour Research Centre at UCL, said: «The smoke - free law has been a huge boost to smokers trying to quit, but radical action is now needed to build on this success.»

Not exact matches

Yet recent research indicates that the effect could produce some unexpected behaviours in consumers that need to be considered carefully by the food and drink industry, policy - makers and health campaigners alike.

Felice N Jacka has received Grant / Research support from the Brain and Behaviour Research Institute, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Australian Rotary Health, the Geelong Medical Research Foundation, the Ian Potter Foundation, Eli Lilly, Meat and Livestock Australia, Woolworths Limited, and The University of Melbourne and has received speakers honoraria from Sanofi - Synthelabo, Janssen Cilag, Servier, Pfizer, Health Ed, Network Nutrition, Angelini Farmaceutica, Metagenics and Eli Lilly.

The Committee recommends that the Minister for Health and Ageing commission research into the effect of the advertising of food products with limited nutritional value on the eating behaviour of children and other vulnerable groups.

Those who remain sceptical that the demonstrated changes in conduct problems translate into important gains in health and quality of life will point to the need for research quantifying the relationship between change in child behaviour scores and health utility in the index child as well as parents, siblings and peers.

We know, however, from the field of public health, that sustainability of any behaviour change programme requires continued activity, research and engagement.

The Review's lead author, Professor Theresa Marteau, Director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge, UK, says: «This evidence suggests that using nutritional labelling could help reduce calorie intake and make a useful impact as part of a wider set of measures aimed at tackling obesity,» She added, «There is no «magic bullet» to solve the obesity problem, so while calorie labelling may help, other measures to reduce calorie intake are also needed.»

«The police cooperate, nobody is hostile,» says Gerry Stimson, director of the London - based Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour.

With this research we aimed to see how our interventions influenced behaviours, according to the different health services and contexts.

Parents who directly and actively engage their children in healthy living behaviour — instead of passively «supporting» the behaviour — are significantly more likely to see their kids meet Canadian guidelines when it comes to physical activity, healthy eating and screen time, new research from Public Health Ontario (PHO) has found.

Speaking about the research, Professor Mireia Jofre - Bonet from the Department of Economics at City, University of London and lead author of the study, said: «Our study confirms the close relationship between health and the economic environment as we found that the 2008 Great Recession led to a decrease in risky behaviour, such as smoking and drinking, but also an increase in the likelihood of obesity, diabetes and mental health problems.

Dr Neha Issar - Brown, Programme Leader for the Population and Systems Medicine Board at the Medical Research Council, said: «Sexual behaviour, or rather risky sexual behaviour, can have a negative impact on several other areas of a young adult's life, including their general well - being and health.

The research participants answered questionnaires on eating behaviour, weight, health and psychological wellbeing at age 24 and again, ten years later at age 34.

«However, given the observational design, the relative magnitude of effect of physical activity and sedentary behaviour on health needs further examination through experimental or intervention level research.»

More than 2800 Australian students aged 12 - 17 took part in a survey of drinking behaviour, conducted by researchers from the University of Adelaide's School of Psychology and the Population Health group at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI).

That view was echoed by Theresa Marteau, director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge Institute of Public Health, who submitted evidence for the report.

Senior author Professor Jane Wardle, director of the Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Centre at UCL, says: «A recent UK survey found that 60 % of overweight and obese adults in the UK are trying to lose weight.

Teens who were severely bullied as children by peers are at higher risk of mental health issues, including suicidal thoughts and behaviours, according to new research in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

Commenting on the findings Dr Saverio Stranges, the research paper's lead author, said: «Along with smoking, fruit and vegetable consumption was the health - related behaviour most consistently associated with both low and high mental wellbeing.

In this study from researchers at the Behaviour and Health Research Unit, University of Cambridge, and the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, and published today in the journal Tobacco Control, more than 400 English children aged 11 - 16 who had never smoked or «vaped» previously were recruited and randomly allocated to one of three groups.

Professor Theresa Marteau, Director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit and a Fellow of Christ's College, University of Cambridge, adds: «E-cigarette marketing across Europe is regulated under the new EU Tobacco Products Directive, which came into effect on the 20th May this year.

While the «high» risk group is easily identified by behaviour such as alcohol and drug use, parents and teachers are probably not aware of that adolescents in the «invisible» risk group are at risk», says Vladimir Carli, at the National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill - Health (NASP) at Karolinska Institutet, first author of the study.

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It added: «It is vital to carry out research into what proportion of a school's budget is used to provide health or social care services, or is spent on dealing with behaviours that result from a lack of preventative work in mental health.»

Further research has also shown that the potential benefits of the programme go wider than pupil health, with FFL schools «consistently reporting that FFL had contributed to their school improvement agendas, helping improve attainment, behaviour and school environments» and that the experiential learning resulting from Food for Life activity «appears to have been particularly effective at helping engage or re-engage pupils with learning issues and challenges.»

Course aims and links to learning Randall Williams, in his summary of outdoor learning research «Time for Change», shows that there is now clear and demonstrable evidence that challenging outdoor activities and environmental studies contribute towards a range of societal targets across education, health, anti-social behaviour and community cohesion.

We explore how certain behaviour management models are simply ineffective, particularly for students with learning or mental health difficulties, and discuss his research in this area.

This included: attendance levels (studies show a positive relationship between participation in sports and school attendance); behaviour (research concludes that even a little organised physical activity, either inside or outside the classroom, has a positive effect on classroom behaviour, especially amongst the most disruptive pupils); cognitive function (several studies report a positive relationship between physical activity and cognition, concentration, attention span and perceptual skills); mental health (studies indicate positive impacts of physical activity on mood, well - being, anxiety and depression, as well as on children's self - esteem and confidence); and attainment (a number of well - controlled studies conclude that academic achievement is maintained or enhanced by increased physical activity).

Our pivotal role is to lead a multidisciplinary consortium to provide schools and communities with technical expertise in: school improvement; teacher training and behaviour change programmes at a national scale; girls» education, protection and rights; community mobilisation and cash transfers; primary health care, school health and non-state slum education; and monitoring, research and evaluation in education.

Responsible breeders are individuals who have focused their efforts on one or a select few breeds and, through breeding, historical research and ongoing study, mentoring relationships, club memberships, showing, raising and training of these breeds, have become knowledgeable about their health, heritable defects, temperament and behaviour.

The WALTHAM Equine Studies Group partners with international collaborators to research equine nutrition and its role in the health, welfare, behaviour and performance of horses.

To avoid response bias associated with revealing the central research question, the survey was entitled the «Mature Dog Study», with the stated aim being to explore the impact of canine dogs» health and training upon their behaviour (See S1 File for full survey).

«We are using this app for research purposes - learning about how people's Facebook behaviour can be used to better understand their psychological traits, well - being, health, etc and overcome classic problems in social science.

The Department of Health asked the Health Research Board (HRB) to ascertain the knowledge, opinions and behaviours of the general public in relation to alcohol consumption and whether they agreed or disagreed with some of the measures proposed in the recently published Report of the Working Group on a National Substance Misuse Strategy (for alcohol).

He has been Director of the Institute of Brain, Behaviour and Mental Health the University of Manchester, Chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists» Research Committee and a trustee of the mental health charity Rethink Mental IlHealth the University of Manchester, Chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists» Research Committee and a trustee of the mental health charity Rethink Mental Ilhealth charity Rethink Mental Illness.

The clear social gradient associated with children's vocabulary, emerging literacy, well - being and behaviour is evident from birth to school entry.1 These trajectories track into adolescence and correspond to poorer educational attainment, income and health across the life course.2 — 10 Neuroimaging research extends the evidence for these suboptimal trajectories, showing that children raised in poverty from infancy are more likely to have delayed brain growth with smaller volumetric size of the regions particularly responsible for executive functioning and language.11 This evidence supports the need for further effort to redress inequities that arise from the impact of adversity during the potential developmental window of opportunity in early childhood.

As an outcome of social exclusion consequent to childhood adversity, this study places health within a literature which examines other social and economic outcomes such as family demography, welfare position, educational attainment, employment history and criminal behaviour.46 47 49 50 Continued observation of the NCDS and BCS cohorts as they progress through adulthood provides opportunities for extension of this research.

Biography: Louise Arsenault's research focuses on the study of harmful behaviours such as violence and substance dependence, their developmental origins, their inter-connections with mental health, and their consequences for victims.

Mothers most commonly reported that their children were in the care of relatives (65 %) with 11 % reporting that their child was in the child protection system.15 Disruption to a child's living arrangements, including separation from parents and siblings, can result in psychological and emotional distress.16 17 A recent systematic review and meta - analysis of 40 studies that investigated child outcomes when either parent was incarcerated found a significant association with antisocial behaviour (pooled OR = 1.6, 95 % CI 1.4 to 1.9) and poor educational performance (pooled OR = 1.4, 95 % CI 1.1 to 1.8).18 Other research indicates that children of incarcerated mothers are at risk of increased criminal involvement, mental health issues, physical health problems, behavioural problems, 19 child protection contact20 and poorer educational outcomes.21

Research such as this exposes the fact that 1 in 10 of all children display behaviours of the same magnitude as those currently being accepted and treated by Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).

Some research has suggested that parents who are distressed are more likely to rate their children's mental health or behaviour as problematic; however, this relationship has also been demonstrated often in studies where children's mental health is assessed by clinician interview.43, 44 The design of the current study does not allow us to explore what underpins the relationship between child and carer health.

In this way, it does more to address the aims of the current government strategy No Health without Mental Health32 than the better researched behaviour management programmes.

Importantly, cohealth noted that research had also shown that state intervention such as legislative change and the signalling that discriminatory behaviour was acceptable itself contributed to poor health:

She has worked in the areas of child obesity prevention, health promotion, seniors» mental health, alcohol warning statement labelling, alcohol use in teenagers, nutrition literacy, Indigenous health behaviour, workplace health promotion and evaluation, health policy development, and qualitative research methodologies.

The report provided a series of strategies and areas for future research including possible research on the impact of diversionary programs on Indigenous young people with a cognitive disability and / or mental health issue; the links between early disengagement with the education system and early contact with the juvenile justice system; the impact of Otitis Media on cognitive ability and early disengagement with the education system and early offending behaviour.