Self-efficacy and implementation intentions-based interventions on fruit and vegetable intake among adults: impact at 12-month follow-up.

This study tested the effect of theory-based interventions designed to increase fruit and vegetable intake (FVI). Adults (n = 291) were randomized into four groups: implementation intentions (II) group; self-efficacy (SE) group; combination of implementation intentions and self-efficacy (II+SE) group; and a control group receiving written information on nutrition. They were reassessed at 1, 3, 6 and 12 month follow-up.

The impact of self-efficacy and implementation intentions-based interventions on fruit and vegetable intake among adults.

This study tested the effect of interventions designed for people who do not eat yet the recommended daily fruit and vegetable intake (FVI) but have a positive intention to do so. Adults (N = 163) aged 20-65 were randomised into four groups: implementation intentions (II group), self-efficacy (SE group), combination of II + SE group) and a control group receiving written information on nutrition. Study variables were measured at baseline, post-intervention and at 3-month follow-up.

[Iodine deficiency in the Cirque of Salazie (Reunion Island). Analysis of nutritional causes and study of their consequences].

Randomized subjects (n = 294), (35 young children, 6-30 months old--91 children 8.6 +/- 0.7 years, 116 teenagers 13.

Surgery for left-sided pancreatic cancer.

A total of 590 exocrine pancreatic cancers of the body or tail of the pancreas, operated on between January 1982 and December 1988, were analysed. There were 128 pancreatic resections (group 1), 164 palliative bypasses (group 2) and 293 exploratory laparotomies which included 74 splanchnicectomies (group 3). The mortality rate was lower in group 1 (9 per cent) than in group 2 (19 per cent) (P = 0.

Cancer of the exocrine pancreas. A plea for resection.

Background/aims: The aim of this retrospective multicentric study was to compare the results of resections with those of surgical palliative procedures.

Material And Methods: The 3231 patients included had histologically proven adenocarcinoma of the pancreas and were operated on between 1982 and 1988. Seven hundred eighty-seven underwent surgical resection, and 2444 a palliative procedure.