While it is generally accepted that healthy eating and physical activity promote a healthy lifestyle, special sources on how to practice and adhere to these healthy habits over the long term are sometimes It’s an obscure recipe. Dr. Heather Greenlee of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center goes into more detail about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle. There are many health outcomes, including cancer prevention, cancer recurrence prevention, and heart disease and diabetes prevention. However, few studies have shown how to effectively encourage people to achieve and maintain these behaviors over the long term. This is especially true for underserved and underresourced people, including Latina breast cancer survivors living in New York. This target he cohort was selected when Dr. Greenlee was on the faculty at Columbia University in New York. These relationships continued after she moved to Fred Her Hutchinson Cancer Center. Dr. Greenlee advocated for this cohort of women through the design of her multimodal her diet and physical activity intervention program for Latino breast cancer survivors, recently published in the journal. Cancer measures.
“Our goal is to identify effective and scalable ways to help people achieve and maintain these healthy lifestyle goals,” said Dr. Greenlee. The Greenlee Lab designed an implementation program to promote a sustained healthy diet and physical activity lifestyle in Latina breast cancer survivors using the Nutrition Education DESIGN Procedure Framework. This procedure was chosen based on the goal of promoting direct and indirect education targeting the determinants of behavior and change. Dr. Greenlee’s research group seeks to answer the question, “What behavioral support do people need to help them achieve and sustain changes in diet and physical activity?” To identify how we need to support Latino breast cancer survivors, the Greenlee Lab identified target behaviors, determinants for adopting these behaviors, appropriate behavioral theories, program objectives, program activities, and more. and resource planning, and finally followed a 6-step design procedure. , methods of program evaluation.
In this study, targeted behaviors included increasing daily fruit/vegetable intake, increasing moderate/vigorous physical activity, and decreasing both daily dietary fat and sugar intake. General objectives were built from known determinants and approached with best-fit theory-based models. This work also built on previous work by Dr. Greenlee and colleagues at Columbia University. Dr. Greenlee explains: For the Mi Vida Saludable (My Healthy Life) program, researchers reduced the number of sessions to determine if a shorter program would produce similar results. This shortened program includes a 4-session course over 4 weeks, with weekly text his messages, bi-weekly email his newsletters, and his 11-month Added e-Health program. Face-to-face sessions included experiential cooking and physical activity components, facilitator-led education and discussions on nutrition and physical activity, and excursions to local grocery stores and farmers’ markets. All of these activities and his e-Health program reinforced the purpose of the program. Finally, researchers designed a program evaluation tool that measures both participant determinants and behaviors.
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