Objectives: Current clinical obesity management is insufficient in helping patients initiate and sustain weight loss, requiring innovative and efficacious interventions. We investigated health and wellness coaching in clinical care to motivate patients to adopt healthier lifestyles towards weight management, and proposed an efficacious approach to integrating coaching into clinical care for wei...

Introduction: Cervical cancer is the third-leading cause of death from cancer in Brazilian female population. Treatment depends on the clinical stage of the disease according to the classification of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO). Radical hysterectomy with pelvic lymphadenectomy, the “Wertheim-Meigs” surgery, is a key intervention for tumors restricted to the ...

Introduction: Counselors-in-training (CITs) commonly encounter issues of burnout, compassion fatigue, and/or vicarious traumatization due to the nature their jobs in helping profession. Wellness infused supervision may help CITs foster personal wellness and mitigate deleterious effects helping. This investigation examined connections related counselor-in-training professional quality life durin...

The influence of ethnic identity, acculturation, and mattering on wellness was examined for 176 minority and 286 nonminority adolescents attending a public high school. Participants completed the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure, the Stephenson Multigroup Acculturation Scale, the General Mattering Scale, the Mattering to Others Questionnaire, and the Wellness Evaluation of Life Style-Teenage....

OBJECTIVE We examined the relationship between the type of incentivized wellness program and employee weight loss and the effects of participant income. METHODS We retrospectively examined employees who participated in one of six weight loss wellness programs, which were categorized for the present analysis: reweigh/body mass index, Coaching, and Weight Watchers/Meal Replacement. Those who pa...

OBJECTIVE To measure the effectiveness of a wellness program in a small company using four well-being indicators designed to measure dimensions of physical health, emotional health, healthy behavior, and basic access to health-related conditions and services. METHODS Indicator scores were obtained and compared between Lincoln Industries employees and workers in the neighboring Lincoln/Omaha c...

OBJECTIVES To determine adherence to dimensions of physical wellness among medical students of public and private medical colleges in Pakistan.   METHODS This cross-sectional study was carried out from January to July 2011 among 820 students of private and public medical colleges in Karachi, Pakistan.   RESULTS Overall, medical students scored low in dimensions of physical wellness. Private...