The Impact of Age on the Outcomes of Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis.

Background And Purpose: Minimally invasive lumbar decompression ( ) is an effective long-term therapy for patients with symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) resulting primarily from hypertrophic ligamentum flavum (HLF). Most subjects in clinical studies of the procedure have been older adults (age≥65). While the incidence of LSS increases with age, a substantial number of adults (age<65) also suffer from neurogenic claudication secondary to HLF.

College Students' Perceived Differences Between the Terms Real Meal, Meal, and Snack.

Objective: To assess qualitatively and quantitatively college students' perceived differences between a real meal, meal, and snack.

Design: A descriptive study design was used to administer an 11-item online survey to college students.

Setting: Two university campuses in the western US.

Developing a Questionnaire to Evaluate College Students' Knowledge, Attitude, Behavior, Self-efficacy, and Environmental Factors Related to Canned Foods.

Objective: Develop a questionnaire to measure students' knowledge, attitude, behavior, self-efficacy, and environmental factors related to the use of canned foods.

Methods: The Knowledge-Attitude-Behavior Model, Social Cognitive Theory, and Canned Foods Alliance survey were used as frameworks for questionnaire development. Cognitive interviews were conducted with college students (n = 8).

Novel 10-kHz High-frequency Therapy (HF10 Therapy) Is Superior to Traditional Low-frequency Spinal Cord Stimulation for the Treatment of Chronic Back and Leg Pain: The SENZA-RCT Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: Current treatments for chronic pain have limited effectiveness and commonly known side effects. Given the prevalence and burden of intractable pain, additional therapeutic approaches are desired. Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) delivered at 10 kHz (as in HF10 therapy) may provide pain relief without the paresthesias typical of traditional low-frequency SCS.

Health literacy and obesity among native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders in the United States.

Objectives: Our purpose was to describe relationships between demographic characteristics, body mass index (BMI), and health literacy among Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders (NHPIs).

Design And Sample: In this cross-sectional survey, we interviewed 364 NHPI adults.

Measures: We used Newest Vital Sign (NVS), a health literacy tool; measured heights and weights; and demographic questions.

The relationship between select demographic characteristics and body mass index among Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander caregiving adults.

Purpose: Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islanders (NHOPIs) have the highest prevalence of overweight and obesity in the world. We identified the proportion of our NHOPI sample in each body mass index (BMI) category and explored relationships between BMI and demographic characteristics.

Design/method: Our descriptive correlational study included 364 NHOPI caregiver adults in Utah (n = 155) and Hawaii (n = 209).

Eating competence of college students in an introductory nutrition course.

Objective: Describe eating competence, a positive and flexible way of conceptualizing eating attitudes and behaviors, in students enrolled in an introductory nutrition course.

Methods: Online completion of the Satter Eating Competence Inventory (ecSI) and self-assessment of eating disorder status by 557 students (343 ages 18-20 years and 180 ages 21-26 years; 377 females) at the beginning of 1 semester. Analysis of variance and post hoc Tukey adjusted tests were used.

Novel spinal cord stimulation parameters in patients with predominant back pain.

Objectives: To examine the feasibility of novel high-frequency spinal cord stimulation therapy in a cohort of patients with chronic predominant back pain during a four day, percutaneous trial.

Design: Prospective, multicenter open label pilot trial.

Setting And Patients:  Twenty-four patients with back pain greater than leg pain who were candidates for spinal cord stimulation were trialed at five U.

A randomized, placebo-controlled study to assess the efficacy of lateral branch neurotomy for chronic sacroiliac joint pain.

Objective: The objective of this study was to compare the efficacy of lateral branch neurotomy using cooled radiofrequency to a sham intervention for sacroiliac joint pain.

Design: Fifty-one subjects were randomized on a 2:1 basis to lateral branch neurotomy and sham groups, respectively. Follow-ups were conducted at 1, 3, 6, and 9 months.

A double-blind, randomized, prospective study of epidural steroid injection vs. the mild® procedure in patients with symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis.

Background: Epidural steroid injections (ESIs) are commonly used to treat low back pain, including symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). Reports on LSS treatment with ESIs have not differentiated between neurogenic claudication, which is believed to result from nerve root compression, and lumbar radicular pain, thought to be caused by inflammation. While there is overlap between these groups, the clinical relevance of ESI treatment cannot be generalized between these 2 distinct diseases with completely different pathophysiological causes.

Qualitative description of college students' dinner groups.

Objective: To discover how college students conduct dinner groups and perceptions of the benefits and difficulties of participation.

Design: Qualitative study conducted with 7 focus groups.

Setting And Participants: A university campus, with 36 students participating in dinner groups, defined as a group of 3 people or more cooking for one another (or together) and eating together at least 4 times a week.

Functional outcomes in patients with chronic nonmalignant pain on long-term opioid therapy.

Objectives: Although long-term opioid therapy for chronic nonmalignant pain (CNMP) is widely accepted, it is controversial as to whether long-term benefits outweigh detrimental side effects. This study examines the effect of long-term opioid therapy on quality of life in terms of both physical and mental health in patients with CNMP.

Methods: We retrospectively studied a cohort of patients with CNMP.

College students can benefit by participating in a prepaid meal plan.

We compared Food Guide Pyramid (FGP) intake of college students according to their participation in a campus prepaid meal plan and their sex. Subjects were 503 single undergraduates (73 males, 430 females) who completed a 3-day dietary analysis assignment for an introductory nutrition course. Average intake for virtually all students fell short of FGP recommendations.

Heritage retention and bean intake correlates to dietary fiber intakes in Hispanic mothers--Qué Sabrosa Vida.

Objective: To determine the correlation between fruit/vegetable and bean stage of change and heritage retention with fiber intake in Hispanic mothers.

Design: Cross-sectional study design used baseline survey data from the Qué Sabrosa Vida nutrition intervention developed by the University of Texas School of Public Health, Human Nutrition Center (Houston, TX). Participants were recruited and data gathered from telephone surveys using random digit dial methodology ensuring proportional representation of demographic subgroups.

The relationship between reading beauty and fashion magazines and the use of pathogenic dieting methods among adolescent females.

This study examined the relationship between reading women's beauty and fashion magazines and the use of pathogenic dieting methods (laxatives, appetite suppressants/diet pills, skipping two meals a day, intentional vomiting, and restricting calories to 1,200 or less each day) among 502 high school females. Weak to moderate positive associations were found between reading frequency and each of these unhealthful practices except the use of laxatives. When controlling for anxiety about weight and frequency of regular exercise, however, the original bivariate relations between reading frequency and skipping two meals a day, and reading and intentional vomiting, disappeared.