These simple strategies based on self-determination theory can help you maximize your patients’ motivation to change. Facilitating patient behavior change is a constant challenge for primary care ...

Physical inactivity (insufficient physical activity levels) is a serious public health issue that results in all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity. Increasing physical ...

We argue that interventions that empower individuals to manage their behaviour play an important role in physical activity promotion and maintenance. Specifically, we focus on training physically ...

We are constantly surrounded by temptations that are not in our best interest. That is, they are often neither in the best interest of us individually (e.g., succumbing to a sugar intake that is ...

Over the course of four sessions, my patient, Stacey, and I worked toward her goals of sleeping more, checking her email less and spending more quality time with her family. She successfully developed ...

Medicaid/CHIP surveillance demonstrated an 11.4% relative rise in pediatric diabetes prevalence, including a 24.3% increase in type 2 diabetes, with disparities by geography, sex, and region.

Researchers conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of 116 studies to evaluate the effectiveness of physical activity promotion interventions for healthy adults and the components of effective ...