Exploring the Framing of Animal Farming and Meat Consumption: On the Diversity of Topics Used and Qualitative Patterns in Selected Demographic Contexts.

In various contexts, people talk about animal farming and meat consumption using different arguments to construct and justify their (non-)acceptability. This article presents the results of an in-depth qualitative inquiry into the content of and contextual patterns in the everyday-life framing regarding this issue, performed among consumers in various settings in two extremes in the European sphere: the Netherlands and Turkey. We describe the methodological steps of collecting, coding, and organizing the variety of encountered framing topics, as well as our search for symbolic convergence in groups of consumers from different selected demographic contexts (country, urban-rural areas, gender, age, and education level).

Quality assessment of practice nurse communication with type 2 diabetes patients.

Objective: Nurse self-management support for type 2 diabetes patients may benefit from applying theory-based behavior change counseling. The 5As model was used to assess if, and how, nurses applied the five key elements of self-management support in standard care.

Methods: Seven practice nurses audio-recorded consultations with 66 patients.

Communication Between HIV Patients and Their Providers: A Qualitative Preference Match Analysis.

Since the introduction of cART (combination antiretroviral therapy), HIV has evolved into a chronic disease such that it requires lifelong medical treatment to which patients must adhere. Communication with health care providers is pivotal in supporting patients to adapt to having HIV and adhering to treatment, in order to maintain health and quality of life. Previous research indicates that communication is optimal when it matches patient preferences for information exchange, relationship establishment, and involvement in treatment decisions.

Evaluation of using spot urine to replace 24 h urine sodium and potassium excretions.

Objective: The most accurate method to estimate Na and K intakes is to determine 24 h urinary excretions of these minerals. However, collecting 24 h urine is burdensome. Therefore it was studied whether spot urine could be used to replace 24 h urine samples.

Effective Nurse Communication With Type 2 Diabetes Patients: A Review.

Many type 2 diabetes mellitus patients have difficulties reaching optimal blood glucose control. With patients treated in primary care by nurses, nurse communication plays a pivotal role in supporting patient health. The twofold aim of the present review is to categorize common barriers to nurse-patient communication and to review potentially effective communication methods.

Cost effectiveness of medication adherence-enhancing interventions: a systematic review of trial-based economic evaluations.

Background: In light of the pressure to reduce unnecessary healthcare expenditure in the current economic climate, a systematic review that assesses evidence of cost effectiveness of adherence-enhancing interventions would be timely.

Objective: Our objective was to examine the cost effectiveness of adherence-enhancing interventions compared with care as usual in randomised controlled trials, and to assess the methodological quality of economic evaluations.

Methods: MEDLINE, PsycInfo, EconLit and the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination databases were searched for randomised controlled trials reporting full economic evaluations of adherence-enhancing interventions (published up to June 2013).

'Getting things done': an everyday-life perspective towards bridging the gap between intentions and practices in health-related behavior.

In this paper, we aim to add a new perspective to supporting health-related behavior. We use the everyday-life view to point at the need to focus on the social and practical organization of the concerned behavior. Where most current approaches act disjointedly on clients and the social and physical context, we take the clients' own behavior within the dynamics of everyday context as the point of departure.

If you can't eat what you like, like what you can: how children with coeliac disease and their families construct dietary restrictions as a matter of choice.

Although it is recognised that a gluten-free diet has many social implications for coeliac disease patients, not much is known about how such patients actually manage these implications in their everyday interactions. This article examines how dietary restrictions are treated by patients and their families. Data from recorded mealtime conversations of seven Dutch families with children suffering from coeliac disease were analysed using discursive psychology.

Planning in Dutch health promotion practice: a comprehensive view.

Health promotion has a strong tradition of using planning models based on an a priori set of goals and processes defined by professionals. Those rational models only partly fit with today's view and practice of health promotion, where programmes can be considered as processes because they are guided by principles such as community participation and intersectoral collaboration. The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive view on approaches to planning in health promotion practice.

Determinants of Dutch general practitioners' nutrition and physical activity guidance practices.

Objective: General practitioners (GP) are uniquely placed to guide their patients on nutrition and physical activity. The aims of the present study were to assess: (i) the extent to which GP guide on nutrition and physical activity; (ii) the determinants that cause GP to give guidance on nutrition and physical activity; and (iii) the extent to which these guidance practices have the same determinants.

Design: Cross-sectional study, mail questionnaire.

A longitudinal study of changes in noticing and treating patients' overweight by Dutch GPs between 1997 and 2007.

Background: One of the stakeholders in tackling the rise and health consequences of overweight and obesity is the general practice physician (GP). GPs are in a good position to inform and give nutrition guidance to overweight patients.

Objective: Assessment of working mechanism of determinants of the nutrition guidance practice: noticing patients' overweight and guidance of treatment by GPs [linear analysis of structural relations (LISREL) path model] in a longitudinal study.

The use of theory in research on nutrition guidance practices by primary care physicians from 1995 to October 2008: a review.

Background: Theory-based interventions on nutrition guidance practices of primary care physicians (PCPs) are thought to be more effective than those that do not use theory.

Objective: To assess how often and which theoretical models of behaviour change are used in research on nutrition guidance practices of PCPs.

Method: A review of articles published from 1995 to October 2008 (n = 111).

Stressors and resources mediate the association of socioeconomic position with health behaviours.

Background: Variability in health behaviours is an important cause of socioeconomic health disparities. Socioeconomic differences in health behaviours are poorly understood. Previous studies have examined whether (single) stressors or psychosocial resources mediate the relationship between socioeconomic position and health or mortality.

Neighbors Connected: the interactive use of multi-method and interdisciplinary evidence in the development and implementation of neighbors connected.

Neighbors Connected is a community-based intervention in the Netherlands. It helps the active older people to organize social activities for their less active older neighbors, facilitated by practical and financial support from the Community Health Service. The intervention is the outcome of a combination of semi-structured interviews with the older people, with organizations for older people and with local policy-makers, epidemiological data and interactive discussions, all of which support the notion that engaging in social activities is a way to enhance healthy ageing within the community.

The difficult balance between entertainment and education: a qualitative evaluation of a Dutch health-promoting documentary series.

The development, content and potential health promoting effect of the Dutch documentary series, Voor dik & dun ("For thick and thin") were investigated. This series was based on the entertainment-education (EE) strategy and designed to prevent overweight. Qualitative data were collected from three perspectives: those involved in the program development (in-depth interviews), health communication scientists (in-depth interviews), and viewers (focus groups).

Healthy ageing in a salutogenic way: building the HP 2.0 framework.

Healthy ageing is influenced by a variety of interacting determinants. Because no one agency can tackle all these determinants, the promotion of healthy ageing requires an intersectoral approach. The aim of this article is to describe a theoretical basis, the development and possible applications of a framework within a municipality in the Netherlands.

Quitting is not an option: An analysis of online diet talk between celiac disease patients.

This is an empirical study of the way in which celiac disease patients manage the risk of gluten intake in their everyday life.The article examines naturally occurring conversational data in order to study how patients cope interactionally with constantly being at risk in their day-to-day living. They reject quitting the diet as a valid option, and instead construct a 'diet world' in which dietary transgression is presented as an integrated part of everyday life.

I eat healthfully but I am not a freak. Consumers' everyday life perspective on healthful eating.

The gap between the awareness and understanding of healthful eating on the one hand and actual eating practices on the other has been addressed in several ways in the literature. In this paper, we consider it from an everyday life perspective. Using discourse analysis, we analyse how Dutch consumers account for their everyday food choices.

Longitudinal changes in GPs' task perceptions, self-efficacy, barriers and practices of nutrition education and treatment of overweight.

Background: GPs play a role in prevention by giving nutrition education and advice on overweight. Over the years, GP's tasks and working environment changed.

Objective: To know how task perceptions, perceptions of own ability and perceived barriers regarding nutrition education and treatment of overweight of Dutch GPs have developed from 1992 to 2007.

Nutrition-related information-seeking behaviours of women trying to conceive and pregnant women: evidence for the life course perspective.

Objectives: To examine whether preconception and pregnancy could be an occasion triggering women's interest, search and need for both general and pregnancy-specific nutrition-related information, in order to: (i) provide a greater understanding of the life course perspective (in this case on nutrition behaviours and pregnancy) and (ii) to contribute to the rationale of nutrition interventions aimed at women of child-bearing age.

Methods: Data were collected in a cross-sectional study with the aid of a face-to-face interview. The sample consisted of four groups each of about 100 Dutch nulliparous women each: women trying to conceive and women in the first, second or third trimester of their first pregnancy.

Written nutrition communication in midwifery practice: what purpose does it serve?

Objective: to obtain an in-depth understanding of verbal and written nutrition communication in Dutch midwifery practice.

Design, Setting And Participants: data were collected by recording 12 initial antenatal consultations (12 weeks into the pregnancy) with primiparous women from four Dutch midwifery practices spread over The Netherlands, followed by two semi-structured qualitative interviews with the women. The interviews were undertaken on the day after the consultation and two weeks later.

Exploration of possible correlates of nutrition awareness and the relationship with nutrition-related behaviours: results of a consumer study.

Objectives: To unravel the concept of nutrition awareness, as it relates to risky personal nutrition-related behaviours, and to assess the sociodemographic and psychosocial correlates of nutrition awareness.

Design: Data were collected in a cross-sectional study with the aid of a face-to-face interview-assisted questionnaire that was based on the Precaution Adoption Process Model and Stages of Change Model.

Setting: Dutch consumer homes.

Nutrition awareness and pregnancy: implications for the life course perspective.

Objective: To explore the influence of a life event (pregnancy) on nutrition awareness and the motivations for nutrition behaviour.

Study Design: In-depth, face-to-face interviews with five groups of 12 women: women wishing to conceive a child, women in the first, second, and third trimesters of their first pregnancy, and women in the first trimester of their second pregnancy. As is common in qualitative research, participants were selected on the basis of diversity together with maximum representativeness within normal populations with respect to socio-demographic characteristics.

Why preferences change: beliefs become more salient through provided (genomics) information.

Information regarding the method of production of food products influences the decision-making process of consumers. The aim of this study is investigate to what extent information about genomics biases consumer decision making. We investigate the exact source of the biasing nature by separating the effect on consumer beliefs and the salience of those beliefs.