Purpose – Self-efficacy has often been found to play a significant role in healthy dietary behaviours. However, self-efficacy interventions most often consist of intensive interventions. The authors aim to provide more insight into the effect of brief self-efficacy interventions on healthy dietary behaviours. Design/methodology/approach – In the present article, two randomized controlled trials are described. In study 1, a brief self-efficacy intervention with multiple self-efficacy techniques integrated on a flyer is tested, and in study 2, an online brief self-efficacy intervention with a single self-efficacy technique is tested. Findings – The results show that a brief self-efficacy intervention can directly increase vegetable intake and indirectly improve compliance to a diet plan to eat healthier. Originality/value – These findings suggest that self-efficacy interventions do not always have to be intensive to change dietary behaviours and that brief self-efficacy interventions can also lead to more healthy dietary behaviours.
Background: Airway care interventions and prone positioning are used in critically ill patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) to improve oxygenation and facilitate mucus removal. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the decision-making process regarding the practice of airway care interventions and prone positioning was challenging. Objective: To provide an overview of the practice of airway care interventions and prone positioning during the second wave of the pandemic in the Netherlands. Method: Web-based survey design. Seventy ICU nurses, each representing one intensive care in the Netherlands, were contacted for participation. Potential items were generated based on a literature search and formulated by a multidisciplinary team. Questions were pilot tested for face and construct validity by four intensive care nurses from four different hospitals. Results: The response rate was 53/77 (69%). This survey revealed widespread use of airway care interventions in the Netherlands in COVID-19 patients, despite questionable benefits. Additionally, prone positioning was used in invasively and non-invasively ventilated patients. Conclusions: The use of airway care interventions and prone positioning is time consuming and comes with the production of waste. Further research is needed to assess the effectiveness, workload, and environmental impact of airway care interventions and prone positioning.
Office well-being aims to explore and support a healthy, balanced and active work style in office environments. Recent work on tangible user interfaces has started to explore the role of physical, tangible interfaces as active interventions to explore how to tackle problems such as inactive work and lifestyles, and increasingly sedentary behaviours. We identify a fragmented research landscape on tangible Office well-being interventions, missing the relationship between interventions, data, design strategies, and outcomes, and behaviour change techniques. Based on the analysis of 40 papers, we identify 7 classifications in tangible Office well-being interventions and analyse the intervention based on their role and foundation in behaviour change. Based on the analysis, we present design considerations for the development of future tangible Office well-being design interventions and present an overview of the current field and future research into tangible Office well-being interventions to design for a healthier and active office environment.
Het probleem dat deze projectaanvraag adresseert is de hoge werkdruk van zorgprofessionals in de dementiezorg. Door een stijging in het aantal ouderen met dementie, stijgt de zorgvraag, terwijl het tekort aan zorgprofessionals groeit. Door de inzet van slimme technologische innovaties zoals een Intelligente Zorgomgeving kan deze werkdruk sterk verminderd worden. Een Intelligente Zorgomgeving maakt gebruik van sensortechnieken en gebruikt Artificiële Intelligentie (AI) om gepersonaliseerde zorg te leveren door de zorgbehoefte in kaart te brengen en daarop te reageren. De Intelligente Zorgomgeving werkt daarbij samen met de zorgprofessional. Deze oplossingsrichting wordt in dit project verder uitgewerkt samen met vier zorgpartijen en drie innovatieve MKB. Aan de hand van de casus “Ondersteuning bij eten en drinken” worden Just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAI) ontwikkeld zodat de zorgprofessional de zorgprofessional ondersteund wordt in het uitvoeren van bepaalde zorgtaken. Een voorbeeld van een interventie is het op het juiste moment geven van op de persoon aangepaste zintuigelijke prikkels (geluiden, lichten en projecties) die senioren stimuleren om te eten. Door dergelijke interventies wordt de druk op de zorgprofessional verminderd en neemt de kwaliteit van de zorg toe. Niet alleen de integratie van de AI-modules is van belang maar ook hoe de AI ‘getoond’ wordt aan de zorgprofessional. Daarom wordt er in dit project ook extra aandacht besteed aan de interactie tussen zorgprofessional en de Intelligente Zorgomgeving waardoor het gebruiksgemak wordt verhoogd en zowel cliënt als zorgprofessional een hogere mate van autonomie kunnen ervaren. Door het prototype van de Intelligente Zorgomgeving verder te ontwikkelen in zorginstellingen in samenwerking met verschillende zorgprofessionals en aandacht te besteden aan het ontwikkelen van AI en Interactie met het systeem kunnen de wensen en behoeften van de zorgprofessionals worden geïntegreerd in de Intelligente Zorgomgeving. Dit gebeurt in drie iteraties waarbij de drie opeenvolgende beschikbare living labs in toenemende mate complex en realistisch zijn.
