Nursing students' perceptions and beliefs about immunizations: A descriptive study.

Background: Nurses are expected and trusted to provide education on immunizations. Education and advocacy for immunizations can be enhanced by understanding the perceptions and beliefs about immunizations as students are still immersed in their education.

Objective: To explore nursing students' perceptions and beliefs about immunizations and the diseases they are aimed to prevent.

One-on-one lifestyle coaching for managing adolescent obesity: Findings from a pilot, randomized controlled trial in a real-world, clinical setting.

Background: Interventions for obese adolescents in real-world, clinical settings need to be evaluated because most weight management care occurs in this context.

Objectives: To determine whether a lifestyle intervention that includes motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioural therapy (Health Initiatives Program [HIP]) leads to weight management that is superior to a similar lifestyle intervention (Youth Lifestyle Program [YLP]) that does not include these techniques; and to determine whether the HIP and YLP interventions are superior to a wait list control (WLC) group.

Methods: Obese adolescents were randomly assigned to a YLP (n=15), HIP (n=17) or WLC (n=14) group.