Using the iPod Touch for Patient Health Behavior Assessment and Health Promotion in Primary Care

Using the iPod Touch for Patient Health Behavior Assessment and Health Promotion in Primary Care

BACKGROUND There is a growing recognition of the importance of lifestyle behavior change for health promotion and disease prevention, as well as the concomitant influence of patient-physician communication on effective behavior change. Mobile technology is increasingly being recognized as an important and efficient tool to collect patients' health behavior data and facilitate patient-physician ...

Health Promotion in a Primary Health Care Setting

Primary care practitioners are ideally situated to carry out health promotion activities. Neural tube defects are of a fairly low incidence, but the consequences are tragic. They range from life long physical and often intellectual disabilities, to death at birth. Increased folate intake, either through eating folate rich foods or through supplementation, has been shown to reduce the incidence ...

Integrating primary mental health care and mental health promotion.

Predicting Oral Health Behavior using the Health Promotion Model among School Students: a Cross-sectional Survey

teeth and T=permanent teeth) has been increasing from 1957 to 2015 years in Iran. The current survey aimed to test the power of health promotion model for predicting the oral health behavior among high-school students.  Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 482 high school students in Gorgan city, Iran. Multi-cluster sampling was used to recruit the samples. A research...

Health promotion for adolescents in primary care: randomised controlled trial.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effectiveness of inviting teenagers to general practice consultations to discuss health behaviour concerns and appropriate follow up care. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial, with participants randomised to a consultation (intervention) or usual care (control). Questionnaires completed at baseline, 3 months, and 12 months. SETTING Eight general practices in Hertfo...