Self-efficacy improves weight loss in overweight/obese postmenopausal women during a 6-month weight loss intervention.

The objective was to examine the relationship between self-efficacy and subsequent weight loss during a 6-month weight loss intervention in 90 white early postmenopausal healthy women. We hypothesized that participants with higher self-efficacy scores, either at baseline or follow-up, would lose more weight than those with lower scores. Each participant received a balanced meal plan with reduced energy intake.

The freshman weight gain phenomenon revisited.

Earlier studies associated the first year of college with a dramatic increase in body weight, termed the "freshman 15". However, recent studies showed that weight gain might be smaller. The purpose of this review was to evaluate the extent of observed weight/body composition changes, including factors associated with them, among students entering university.

Evaluation of a school-based teen obesity prevention minimal intervention.

Objective: A school-based nutrition education minimal intervention (MI) was evaluated.

Design: The design was experimental, with random assignment at the school level.

Setting: Seven schools were randomly assigned as experimental, and 7 as delayed-treatment.

Body mass index and percentage body fat as health indicators for young adults.

Objectives: To investigate the validity of an axiom that body mass index (BMI) and percentage body fat (%BF), above an ideal, are health risk factors.

Methods: Participants were 2615 volunteers who participated in a health-screening program conducted in college residence halls over a consecutive 8-year period.

Results: Nearly half of all participants were misclassified when BMI and/or %BF were used to define better versus poorer health whether analyzing all variables together, by individual factor, or by type of variable.

Loss-framed minimal intervention increases mammography use.

Introduction: Although mammography is the most effective early detection breast cancer screening technology available, it is underutilized. This study was conducted to test the effectiveness of a loss-framed minimal intervention to increase mammography use. Loss-frame refers to a communication strategy in which messages are framed from the perspective of what a person has to lose by not taking a particular behavioral action.

Nutrition education intervention for college female athletes.

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of a nutrition education intervention for college female athletes to improve nutrition knowledge, build self-efficacy with respect to making healthful dietary choices, and improve dietary intake.

Design: A pretest-posttest control group design was implemented.

Participants: A women's soccer team (n =15) and a women's swim team (n = 15) were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups, respectively.

Physiologic Screening Test for Eating Disorders/Disordered Eating Among Female Collegiate Athletes.

OBJECTIVE: To develop and evaluate a physiologic screening test specifically designed for collegiate female athletes engaged in athletic competition or highly athletic performances in order to detect eating disorders/disordered eating. No such physiologically based test currently exists. METHODS: Subjects included 148 (84.

Nutrition education worksite intervention for university staff: application of the health belief model.

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of an 8-week worksite nutrition education intervention for university staff using the Health Belief Model (HBM) to promote healthful dietary behaviors that reduce risks for cardiovascular disease and cancer.

Design: 2 3 2 repeated measures baseline/posttest ex post facto research design.

Participants: Staff employees were randomly assigned to treatment (n = 28) and control groups (n = 25).

Evaluation of a "loss-framed" minimal intervention to increase mammography utilization among medically un- and under-insured women.

This study was conducted because mammography is under-utilized, even though it is the most effective early detection screening device for breast cancer. A loss-framed telephonic message based on prospect theory was evaluated for the effects on mammography utilization among medically un- and under-insured women living in demographically similar rural counties in Florida. The sample consisted mostly of White women (approximately 89%) 50-64 years old.

Levels of cigarette and alcohol use related to eating-disorder attitudes.

Objective: To examine levels of cigarette and alcohol use relative to body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness in 206 black and white college women.

Method: Anonymous, paper-and-pencil, self-report questionnaires were administered.

Results: Frequency of both cigarette and alcohol use were significantly and linearly related to body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness.