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- Lingfors, H, et al.
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Evaluation of "Live for Life", a health promotion programme in the County of Skaraborg, Sweden
- 2001
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Ingår i: J Epidemiol Community Health. ; 55, s. 277-282
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Health Centre of Habo, Habo, Sweden. STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate a health promotion programme, combining a population and individual based strategy, in the County of Skaraborg, Sweden, with special attention to outcome. DESIGN: The evaluation was subdivided into structure, process and outcome. The evaluation procedure as a total is described here, but the results presented refer only to outcome. In order to study the potential effect of the individually based health examination, 35 year old subjects who had participated five years previously were in 1994-1996 compared with 35 year old subjects who had not participated before, and compared with their own values five years earlier. The results during 1995-1996 were compared with those of 1989-1990 for corresponding ages in order to study the effect of, particularly, the population based strategy. SETTING: The County of Skaraborg in the south western part of Sweden with about 270 000 inhabitants. In addition to population strategy, involving the total county, men and women aged 30 and 35 years were invited to an individually based examination. MAIN RESULTS: Factors related to body weight increased during the study period, while other factors mostly changed in the direction wanted. As a whole the changes were rather modest. There were favourable changes in lifestyle variables, for example, concerning smoking and dietary habits. CONCLUSIONS: There were beneficial effects from the health promotion programme, but there is a need for continuous improvement of methods of intervention referred to lifestyle. PMID: 11238584 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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- Lingfors, H, et al.
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Lifestyle changes after a health dialogue. Results from the Live for Life health promotion programme
- 2003
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care. ; 21, s. 248-252
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Health Centre of Habo and Development Unit for Primary Health Care, Jönköping, Sweden. hans.lingfors@lj.se OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of a health dialogue on lifestyle habits, and to relate the lifestyle changes to changes of biological risk markers for ischaemic heart disease. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study, intervention and follow-up. SETTING: The community of Habo, population 9500, located in Skaraborg, Sweden. PATIENTS: All 35-year-old inhabitants in Habo were invited to a health examination during a study period between 1989 and 1992. A community intervention programme was combined with a health examination consisting of a health dialogue with a specially trained nurse and use of a "health curve" as an educational tool. The effect of the health examination was examined by comparing baseline characteristics of participants in 1989-1992 with their follow-up data in 1993. RESULTS: Participants in the health dialogue who were re-examined reported lifestyle improvements including less smoking, decreased dietary fat intake and increased physical activity. Those who reported improved dietary intake and increased physical activity improved their biological risk markers correspondingly (body mass index, waist to hip ratio, serum cholesterol concentration). CONCLUSIONS: The combination of a community and an individually based health programme can be effective with respect to lifestyle variables and, in those improving their lifestyle, in biological risk markers. PMID: 14695077 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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