Obesity is related to high health care costs and lost productivity in the workplace. Employers are increasingly sponsoring weight loss and wellness programs to ameliorate these costs. We evaluated weight loss outcomes, treatment utilization, and health behavior change in a low intensity phone- and web-based, employer-sponsored weight loss program. The intervention included three proactive couns...

Motivation has received increasing attention across counseling approaches, presumably because clients’ motivation is key for treatment effectiveness. The authors define motivation using a self-determination theory taxonomy that conceptualizes motivation along a relative-autonomy continuum. The authors apply the taxonomy in discussing how various counseling approaches address client motivation a...

UNLABELLED Theme: Parenting/parenthood. INTRODUCTION Parenting role involves some stress, especially in infant cry/tantrums and during feeding time, leading to pursuit of nurse's counseling. OBJECTIVE To identify evidence-based recommendations and best practice for parents coping with crying/tantrums and in the child's feeding time. METHODS Systematic review of articles published among 20...

BACKGROUND Eat for Life, a multicomponent intervention to increase fruit and vegetable (F & V) consumption among African Americans, is delivered through African American churches. METHODS Fourteen churches were randomly assigned to one of three treatment conditions: 1) comparison; 2) culturally-sensitive multicomponent intervention with one phone call; and 3) culturally-sensitive multicompone...

Hereditary cancer programs that provide risk assessment, genetic education, and counseling services are becoming increasingly common. This article describes one possible approach to providing comprehensive cancer genetics care by a credentialed genetics advanced practice nurse. In addition to the description of the program, data from a recently conducted time study are included to provide insig...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to compare physician encounter documentation with patient perceptions of quality of epilepsy care and examine the association between quality and patient assessment of provider communication. METHODS We identified 505 adult patients with epilepsy aged 18years or older over a 3-year period in two large academic medical centers. We abstracted individual, clin...

BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the most common form of malignancy among females. Family history is a key risk factor for breast cancer. Breast cancer screening practices are vital in patients with family history of breast cancer. Telephone counseling and education may be appropriate for improved breast cancer screening. This study was done to determine family caregiver patients' knowledge of risk ...

Telerehabilitation is termed as habilitation or rehabilitation services that are provided by a professional remotely, which useful for assessment, monitoring, prevention, intervention,supervision, education, consultation, and counseling. It comprises the use of videoconferencing via internet,phone calls, virtual reality systems, where remoteinteraction with patients can either be real-time prer...