Online Lifestyle Medicine Continuing Medical Education (CME) Course Completion Predicts Increases in Clinician Knowledge, Confidence, and Practice of Lifestyle Medicine.

Despite growing evidence linking lifestyle changes to disease reversal, lifestyle medicine (LM) is not widely practiced. Lack of clinician training and knowledge is cited as a barrier to LM adoption. This study measures changes in LM knowledge, attitudes, confidence, and practice behaviors following completion of a 5.

Lifestyle Medicine Implementation in 8 Health Systems: Protocol for a Multiple Case Study Investigation.

Background: Lifestyle medicine (LM) is the use of therapeutic lifestyle changes (including a whole-food, plant-predominant eating pattern; regular physical activity; restorative sleep; stress management; avoidance of risky substances; and positive social connection) to prevent and treat chronic illness. Despite growing evidence, LM is still not widely implemented in health care settings. Potential challenges to LM implementation include lack of clinician training, staffing concerns, and misalignment of LM services with fee-for-service reimbursement, but the full range of factors facilitating or obstructing its implementation and long-term success are not yet understood.

Formative evaluation of a portion control and calorie reduction campaign: Insights from focus groups with target audience.

Healthy eating campaigns can increase awareness of healthful foods and eating patterns and prompt behavior change. Portion control can be a useful strategy in weight management efforts, and new, innovative campaigns can help invigorate messages related to portion control and weight management. This qualitative study presents results of formative testing of portion control and calorie reduction messages and infographics for a proposed campaign.

A Public Health Messaging Campaign to Reduce Caloric Intake: Feedback From Expert Stakeholders.

Objective: To obtain expert feedback on a public health messaging campaign to reduce caloric intake in US adults.

Design And Setting: In 2018, researchers conducted semistructured telephone interviews with US-based experts in obesity prevention, mental health, and health communications.

Participants: The research team invited 100 experts to participate using purposive and snowball sampling techniques.