Giacobbi, P., Hingle, M., Johnson, T., Cunningham, J. K., Armin, J., & Gordon, J. S. (2016). See Me Smoke-Free: Protocol for a Research Study to Develop and Test the Feasibility of an mHealth App for Women to Address Smoking, Diet, and Physical Activity. JMIR research protocols, 5(1), e12.
This paper presents the protocol for an ongoing research study to develop and test the feasibility of a multi-behavioral mHealth app. Approximately 27 million women smoke in the US, and more than 180,000 women die of illnesses linked to smoking annually. Women report greater difficulties quitting smoking. Concerns about weight gain, negative body image, and low self-efficacy may be key factors affecting smoking cessation among women. Recent studies suggest that a multi-behavioral approach, including diet and physical activity, may be more effective at helping women quit. Guided imagery has been successfully used to address body image concerns and self-efficacy in our 3 target behaviors-exercise, diet and smoking cessation. However, it has not been used simultaneously for smoking, diet, and exercise behavior in a single intervention. While imagery is an effective therapeutic tool for behavior change, the mode of delivery has generally been in person, which limits reach. mHealth apps delivered via smart phones offer a unique channel through which to distribute imagery-based interventions.
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Fruit and vegetable (FV) intake has been proposed to protect against obesity. The purpose of this paper was to assess the FV consumption to adiposity relationship. Twenty-three publications were included.
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Hingle, M. D., Turner, T., Ussery, C., Going, S. B., Saboda, K., Roe, D. J., Kutob, R., & Stump, C. (2017). Feasibility and efficacy of a family-focused YCMA-led type 2 diabetes prevention program for youth. Pediatric Diabetes.
Shrira, A., Zaslavsky, O., LaCroix, A. Z., Seguin, R., Post, S., Tindle, H., Hingle, M., Woods, N., Cochrane, B., Garcia, L., Schnall, E., Rillamas-Sun, E., & Palgi, Y. (2014). Global quality of life modifies terminal change in physical functioning among older adult women. Age and ageing.
the factors that moderate decline in physical functioning as death approaches are understudied. This study aimed to assess death-related decline in global quality of life (QoL) and physical functioning and to test whether baseline QoL moderates terminal decline in physical functioning.