Development of the microsite, an online resource for adolescent and young adult cancer patients.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore the information needs and preferences of adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer patients to guide next steps for development of a new online resource for this audience. The goals were to understand information needs, prioritize topic areas, and inform website design and functionality.

Methods: Participants were AYA cancer patients ages 13-25 years.

IMPROVEMENTS IN PSYCHOSOCIAL FUNCTIONING AND HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE FOLLOWING EXERCISE AUGMENTATION IN PATIENTS WITH TREATMENT RESPONSE BUT NONREMITTED MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER: RESULTS FROM THE TREAD STUDY.

Background: Functional impairments often remain despite symptomatic improvement with antidepressant treatment, supporting the need for novel treatment approaches. The present study examined the extent to which exercise augmentation improved several domains of psychosocial functioning and quality of life (QoL) among depressed participants.

Methods: Data were collected from 122 partial responders to antidepressant medication.

Integrating exercise is medicine® into the care of pregnant women.

A majority of women do not meet the recommended levels of physical activity before and during pregnancy. Physically active women experience fewer complications of pregnancy such as gestational diabetes, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, and low back pain, to name only a few. Exercise is Medicine encourages adults to achieve a minimum of 150 min·wk of moderate-intensity physical activity, and the same is true for women having uncomplicated pregnancies.

Weight control beliefs, body shape attitudes, and physical activity among adolescents.

Background: Relatively little is known about how perceived weight controllability influences important psychological health factors among adolescents. Thus, the purpose of this study is to explore adolescents' weight controllability beliefs and how those beliefs influence weight-related attitudes and behaviors.

Methods: Adolescents (N = 369, mean age = 13.

Computerized self-monitoring and technology-assisted feedback for weight loss with and without an enhanced behavioral component.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate a 12-week weight management intervention involving computerized self-monitoring and technology-assisted feedback with and without an enhanced behavioral component.

Methods: 120 overweight (30.5±2.

Weight-related words associated with figure silhouettes.

Antifat attitudes and obesity bias are prevalent in Western society; however, little is known about the social meanings and connotations of weight-related words such as fat, overweight, and obese (e.g., Robison & Erdman, 1998).

Weight stereotypes and behavioral intentions toward thin and fat peers among White and Hispanic adolescents.

Purpose: This study examined weight stereotypes among White and Hispanic youth. Specific objectives were to: (a) document stereotyped beliefs about fat vs. thin peers; (b) examine the extent to which stereotyped beliefs contribute to behavioral intentions toward fat vs.

TREAD: TReatment with Exercise Augmentation for Depression: study rationale and design.

Background: Despite recent advancements in the pharmacological treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD), over half of patients who receive treatment with antidepressant medication do not achieve full remission of symptoms. There is evidence that exercise can reduce depressive symptomatology when used as a treatment for MDD. However, no randomized controlled trials have evaluated exercise as an augmentation strategy for patients with carefully diagnosed MDD who remain symptomatic following an adequate acute phase trial of antidepressant therapy.

Exercise as an augmentation strategy for treatment of major depression.

The use of augmentation strategies among patients with major depression is increasing because rates of complete remission with standard antidepressant monotherapy are quite low. Clinical and neurobiological data suggest that exercise may be a good candidate for use as an augmentation treatment for depression. This pilot study examined the use of exercise to augment antidepressant medication in patients with major depression.

Regulation of anxiety and initiation of sexual behavior by CREB in the nucleus accumbens.

Sexual deficits and other behavioral disturbances such as anxiety-like behaviors can be observed in animals that have undergone social isolation, especially in species having important social interactions. Using a model of protracted social isolation in adult rats, we observed increased anxiety-like behavior and deficits in both the latency to initiate sexual behavior and the latency to ejaculate. We show, using transgenic cAMP response element (CRE)-LacZ reporter mice, that protracted social isolation also reduces CRE-dependent transcription within the nucleus accumbens.

Exercise duration and intensity in a weight-loss program.

Objective: To examine the effect of duration and frequency of exercise on weight loss and cardiorespiratory fitness in previously sedentary, overweight, women.

Design: Randomized, controlled, 4-arm trial of 12-months duration.

Setting: A university-based behavioral weight loss program during the years 2000 and 2001.

Exercise treatment for depression: efficacy and dose response.

Background: This study, conducted between 1998 and 2001 and analyzed in 2002 and 2003, was designed to test (1) whether exercise is an efficacious treatment for mild to moderate major depressive disorder (MDD), and (2) the dose-response relation of exercise and reduction in depressive symptoms.

Design: The study was a randomized 2x2 factorial design, plus placebo control.

Setting/participants: All exercise was performed in a supervised laboratory setting with adults (n =80) aged 20 to 45 years diagnosed with mild to moderate MDD.

Effects of chronic activity wheel running and imipramine on masculine copulatory behavior after olfactory bulbectomy.

We examined the effects of chronic activity wheel running and imipramine administration on appetitive behavior after olfactory bulbectomy (OBX). Male Long-Evans rats were randomly assigned to the following conditions using a 2 x 2 x 2 design: (1) bilateral OBX or sham surgery, (2) voluntary activity wheel running or sedentary home cage, and (3) daily imipramine or saline injections. After 21 days of treatment, animals underwent behavioral testing for copulatory activity and sucrose preference.

Attitudes toward obese individuals among exercise science students.

Purpose: The purpose of this research was to evaluate attitudes toward obese individuals and to identify personal characteristics associated with antifat bias among students majoring in exercise science.

Methods: Undergraduate (N = 136) and graduate (N = 110) students (mean age 23.2 yr, 55% male, 77% Caucasian) completed a series of questionnaires to assess attitudes toward obese individuals.

Weight bias among health professionals specializing in obesity.

Purpose: To determine the level of anti-fat bias in health professionals specializing in obesity and identify personal characteristics that correlate with both implicit and explicit bias.

Research Methods And Procedures: The Implicit Associations Test (IAT) and a self-report questionnaire assessing explicit attitudes, personal experiences with obesity, and demographic characteristics was administered to clinicians and researchers attending the opening session of an international obesity conference (N = 389). The IAT was used to assess overall implicit weight bias (associating "obese people" and "thin people" with "good" vs.

Effects of chronic exercise and imipramine on mRNA for BDNF after olfactory bulbectomy in rat.

We examined the effects of chronic activity wheel running and antidepressant treatment on brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) messenger RNA (mRNA) in multiple brain regions-hippocampal formation (HF), ventral tegmental area/substantia nigra (VTA/SN), nucleus accumbens (NAc), and piriform cortex (PFx)-after bilateral olfactory bulbectomy (OBX). Male, Long-Evans rats (n=72) underwent either sham or OBX surgery and were randomly divided into eight experimental groups in a 2 (sham vs. OBX) x 2 (sedentary vs.

The DOSE study: a clinical trial to examine efficacy and dose response of exercise as treatment for depression.

The Depression Outcomes Study of Exercise (DOSE) was a randomized clinical trial to determine whether exercise is an efficacious treatment for mild to moderate major depressive disorder (MDD) in adults ages 20 to 45 years. The specific hypotheses under investigation were (1) active exercise is an efficacious monotherapy for mild to moderate levels of MDD, and (2) there is a dose-response relation between the exercise amount and reduction in depressive symptoms. The primary outcome measure was the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD) collected weekly over 12 weeks.