Publications by authors named "R J Thibault"
Introduction: Leveraging every interaction between patients and healthcare professionals constitutes an opportunity to foster behavior change. We developed a mobile Screening and Brief Intervention (mSBI) designed to screen for and intervene with multiple health behaviors, based on a personalized feedback. The objectives of the present study were to assess its feasibility during consultations for chronic conditions, collect users' opinions, and to investigate patients' behaviors and intention to change.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground & Aims: There is still some uncertainty towards the best method to diagnose the sarcopenic obesity, and specifically, altered body composition. A recent international consensus proposes the association of increased fat mass (FM) with reduced skeletal muscle mass adjusted by weight (SMM/W) (method 1). The ratio of fat mass index (FMI)/fat free mass index (FFMI) (method 2) has also been proposed.
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- eSBIs are effective health interventions targeting diet and physical activity for adults in healthcare settings, with most studies focusing on primary care.
- Results from the review of 15 studies show that common techniques used include goal setting and providing information about health consequences; however, only a few interventions were interactive.
- Despite demonstrating some positive behavior changes, the studies lack a standardized framework and adherence to existing guidelines, indicating a need for improved methodology before further assessments can be conducted.
We conducted an international cross-sectional survey of biomedical researchers' perspectives on the reproducibility of research. This study builds on a widely cited 2016 survey on reproducibility and provides a biomedical-specific and contemporary perspective on reproducibility. To sample the community, we randomly selected 400 journals indexed in MEDLINE, from which we extracted the author names and emails from all articles published between October 1, 2020 and October 1, 2021.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction And Aims: In obese patients, long-term weight loss maintenance remains challenging. Identifying factors predicting adhesion to lifestyle therapy and weight loss would help optimizing obesity management.
Aims: to identify predictive factors of weight loss after one year of medical therapy in obese patients (primary) and predictive factors of drop-out during the year of therapy (secondary).