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Active Play in After-school Programmes: development of an intervention and description of a matched-pair cluster-randomised trial assessing physical activity play in after-school programmes
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2017)
Introduction Interventions delivered in after-school programmes (ASPs) have the potential to become a means of ensuring adequate physical activity among schoolchildren. This requires a motivational climate, allowing for ...
Health-related quality of life and pain in children and adolescents: A school survey
(BioMed Central, 2017)
Background
Pain problems are common in children and adolescents. Measures of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) can be used to assess children’s subjective perspectives of pain experience and its impact on their ...
How school nurses experience and understand everyday pain among adolescents
(BioMed Central, 2017)
Pain problems are a rapidly growing health problem found among both children and adolescent, and about 15–30% have reported chronic pain problems. School nurses in Norway meet adolescents with various ailments, including ...
The relationship between fitness and health-related quality of life and the mediating role of self-determined motivation in overweight adolescents
(2014-09-30)
Aim: To examine the relationship between cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among
overweight adolescents and to test whether this relationship is mediated by body image (BI) and ...
Development of a complex intervention to improve health literacy skills
(Wiley, 2013-07-31)
Background
Providing insight into the developmental processes involved in building interventions is an important way to ensure methodological transparency and inform future research efforts. The objective of this study ...
Implementing guidelines for preventing, identifying and treatingadolescent overweight and obesity; - school nurses’ perceptions of thechallenges involved.
(Wiley, 2017)
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:
To gain a better understanding of school nurses' perceptions of the challenges involved in implementing national guidelines on managing overweight and obesity in adolescents.
BACKGROUND:
National ...
Pain and pressure pain thresholds in adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome and healthy controls: a cross-sectional study
(BioMed Central, 2014-09-06)
Objectives Although pain is a significant symptom in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), pain is poorly understood in adolescents with CFS. The aim of this study was to explore pain distribution and prevalence, pain intensity ...
Development and Usability Testing of an Internet Intervention to Increase Physical Activity in Overweight Adolescents
(JMIR Publications, 2013)
Background: Internet interventions may provide opportunities for low threshold counseling using feedback to guide and support health behavior, including increased physical activity. Research shows that overweight and obese ...
Cognitive factors predicting intentions to search for health information: an application of the theory of planned behaviour
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012-10-11)
Peoples' ability to obtain health information is a precondition for their effective participation in decision making about health. However, there is limited evidence describing which cognitive factors can predict the ...
The Outcomes of a 12-Week Internet Intervention Aimed at Improving Fitness and Health-Related Quality of Life in Overweight Adolescents: The Young & Active Controlled Trial
(Public Library of Science, 2014-12-05)
Background:
Overweight and obesity among adolescents may have
consequences, with potentially lasting effects on health and health-related quality of
life (HRQoL). Excess weight is also associated with decreases in ...