Support Interventions for Young People in Housing Programs: A Rapid Literature Review.

This rapid review synthesizes current original research studies concerning support interventions intended for young people who experienced homelessness and are housed through youth-focused housing programs. Peer-reviewed articles on interventions for young people between 13 and 25 years of age with experience of homelessness living in youth-focused housing published between January 2017 and May 2022 were search in Scopus, Web of Sciences, PubMed, and EBSCO. Ten articles were included in the review.

Improving smoking cessation support for Quebec's smokers: an evaluation of Quebec's telephone quitline.

Introduction: Quitlines are an important and widespread intervention that support smokers in their efforts to quit smoking and engage them into treatment services. Quebec's quitline, called "la ligne J'ARRÊTE", has been in operation since 2002. The objectives of this study were to evaluate treatment reach, provide a description of caller characteristics and to provide results on cessation outcome measures for Quebec's smoking cessation quitline.

Compensatory beliefs and intentions contribute to the prediction of caloric intake in dieters.

One cognitive process that impacts dieters' decision to indulge is the activation of compensatory beliefs. Compensatory beliefs (CBs) are convictions that the consequences of engaging in an indulgent behaviour (eating cake) can be neutralized by the effects of another behaviour (skipping dinner). Using experience sampling methodology, this study hypothesized that, in addition to the cognitive processes associated with restraint and disinhibition, compensatory thinking contributes to the prediction of caloric intake.

A scenario-based dieting self-efficacy scale: the DIET-SE.

The article discusses a scenario-based dieting self-efficacy scale, the DIET-SE, developed from dieter's inventory of eating temptations (DIET). The DIET-SE consists of items that describe scenarios of eating temptations for a range of dieting situations, including high-caloric food temptations. Four studies assessed the psychometric properties of the 11-item DIET-SE.

Stretched rating scales cause guided responding.

Decision making by policymakers, public health professionals, and health care providers is often guided by the extent to which individuals feel at risk for certain adverse health events. Such health risk perceptions can be assessed in surveys using different types of probability rating scales. It has recently been suggested that rating scales that offer decomposed numeric values at the lower end of the scale (stretched scales) improve the accuracy of estimates of small risks.

Aesthetic properties of everyday objects.

This research addresses whether one underlying concept of appreciation exists across different classes of objects. Three studies were done. To identify aesthetic properties relevant for the aesthetic judgment of everyday objects and paintings, in Study 1 expert interviews were conducted with 12 interior designers, object-oriented designers and architects, and 12 students of art history.