Abstract Background: Several interventions have been developed to improve physical health and lifestyle behaviour of people with a severe mental illness (SMI). Recently, we conducted a pragmatic cluster-randomised controlled trial which evaluated the efects of the one-year Severe Mental Illness Lifestyle Evaluation (SMILE) lifestyle intervention compared with usual care in clients with SMI. The SMILE intervention is a 12-month group-based lifestyle intervention with a focus on increased physical activity and healthy food intake. The aim of the current study was to explore the experiences of people with SMI and healthcare professionals (HCPs) regarding implementation feasibility of the SMILE intervention and the fdelity to the SMILE intervention. Methods: A process evaluation was conducted alongside the pragmatic randomized controlled trial. The experiences of clients and HCPs in the lifestyle intervention group were studied. First, descriptive data on the implementation of the intervention were collected. Next, semi-structured interviews with clients (n=15) and HCPs (n=13) were performed. Interviews were audiotaped and transcribed verbatim. A thematic analysis of the interview data was performed using MAXQDA software. In addition, observations of group sessions were performed to determine the fdelity to the SMILE intervention using a standardised form. Results: Ten out of 26 HCPs who conducted the group sessions discontinued their involvement with the intervention, primarily due to changing jobs. 98% of all planned group sessions were performed. Four main themes emerged from the interviews: 1) Positive appraisal of the SMILE intervention, 2) Suggestions for improvement of the SMILE intervention 3) Facilitators of implementation and 4) Barriers of implementation. Both clients and HCPs had positive experiences regarding the SMILE intervention. Clients found the intervention useful and informative. The intervention was found suitable and interesting for all people with SMI, though HCPs sometimes had to tailor the intervention to individual characteristics of patients (e.g., with respect to cognitive functioning). The handbook of the SMILE intervention was perceived as user-friendly and helpful by HCPs. Combining SMILE with daily tasks, no support from other team members, and lack of staf and time were experienced as barriers for the delivery of the intervention Conclusion: The SMILE intervention was feasible and well-perceived by clients and HCPs. However, we also identifed some aspects that may have hindered efective implementation and needs to be considered when implementing the SMILE intervention in daily practice
Background: Behaviour change techniques (BCTs) can be employed to support a healthy lifestyle for people with intellectual disabilities. The aim of this study is to determine whether and which BCTs are used by direct support professionals (DSPs) for supporting healthy lifestyle behaviour of people with moderate to profound intellectual disabilities. Method: Direct support professionals (n = 18) were observed in their daily work using audio-visual recordings. To code BCTs, the Coventry Aberdeen London Refined (CALO-RE-NL) taxonomy was employed. Results: Direct support professionals used 33 BCTs out of 42. The most used BCTs were as follows: ‘feedback on performance’, ‘instructions on how to perform the behaviour’, ‘doing together’, ‘rewards on successful behaviour’, ‘reward effort towards behaviour’, ‘DSP changes environment’, ‘graded tasks’, ‘prompt practice’ and ‘model/demonstrate behaviour’. Conclusions: Although a variety of BCTs is used by DSPs in their support of people with moderate to profound intellectual disabilities when facilitating healthy lifestyle behaviour, they rely on nine of them.
Abstract Background: Multidimensional frailty, including physical, psychological, and social components, is associated to disability, lower quality of life, increased healthcare utilization, and mortality. In order to prevent or delay frailty, more knowledge of its determinants is necessary; one of these determinants is lifestyle. The aim of this study is to determine the association between lifestyle factors smoking, alcohol use, nutrition, physical activity, and multidimensional frailty. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in two samples comprising in total 45,336 Dutch communitydwelling individuals aged 65 years or older. These samples completed a questionnaire including questions about smoking, alcohol use, physical activity, sociodemographic factors (both samples), and nutrition (one sample). Multidimensional frailty was assessed with the Tilburg Frailty Indicator (TFI). Results: Higher alcohol consumption, physical activity, healthy nutrition, and less smoking were associated with less total, physical, psychological and social frailty after controlling for effects of other lifestyle factors and sociodemographic characteristics of the participants (age, gender, marital status, education, income). Effects of physical activity on total and physical frailty were up to considerable, whereas the effects of other lifestyle factors on frailty were small. Conclusions: The four lifestyle factors were not only associated with physical frailty but also with psychological and social frailty. The different associations of frailty domains with lifestyle factors emphasize the importance of assessing frailty broadly and thus to pay attention to the multidimensional nature of this concept. The findings offer healthcare professionals starting points for interventions with the purpose to prevent or delay the onset of frailty, so communitydwelling older people have the possibility to aging in place accompanied by a good quality of life.
Over a million people in the Netherlands have type 2 diabetes (T2D), which is strongly related to overweight, and many more people are at-risk. A carbohydrate-rich diet and insufficient physical activity play a crucial role in these developments. It is essential to prevent T2D, because this condition is associated with a reduced quality of life, high healthcare costs and premature death due to cardiovascular diseases. The hormone insulin plays a major role in this. This hormone lowers the blood glucose concentration through uptake in body cells. If an excess of glucose is constantly offered, initially the body maintains blood glucose concentration within normal range by releasing higher concentrations of insulin into the blood, a condition that is described as “prediabetes”. In a process of several years, this compensating mechanism will eventually fail: the blood glucose concentration increases resulting in T2D. In the current healthcare practice, T2D is actually diagnosed by recognizing only elevated blood glucose concentrations, being insufficient for identification of people who have prediabetes and are at-risk to develop T2D. Although the increased insulin concentrations at normal glucose concentrations offer an opportunity for early identification/screening of people with prediabetes, there is a lack of effective and reliable methods/devices to adequately measure insulin concentrations. An integrated approach has been chosen for identification of people at-risk by using a prediabetes screening method based on insulin detection. Users and other stakeholders will be involved in the development and implementation process from the start of the project. A portable and easy-to-use demonstrator will be realised, based on rapid lateral flow tests (LFTs), which is able to measure insulin in clinically relevant samples (serum/blood) quickly and reliably. Furthermore, in collaboration with healthcare professionals, we will investigate how this screening method can be implemented in practice to contribute to a healthier lifestyle and prevent T2D.
Our world is changing rapidly as a result of societal and technological developments that create new opportunities and challenges. Extended Realities (XR) could provide solutions for the problems the world is facing. In this project we apply these novel solutions in food and hospitality. It aims to tackle fundamental questions on how to stimulate a healthy and vital society that is based on a sustainable and innovative economy. This project aims to answer the question: How can Extended Reality (XR) technologies be integrated in the design of immersive food experiences to stimulate sustainable consumption behavior? A multidisciplinary approach, that has demonstrated its strength in the creative industry, will be applied in the hospitality and food sector. The project investigates implications and design considerations for immersion through XR technology that can stimulate sustainable consumption behavior. Based on XR prototypes, physiological data will be collected using biometric measuring devices in combination with self-reports. The effect of stimuli on sustainable consumption behavior during the immersive experience will be tested to introduce XR implementations that can motivate long-term behavioral change in food consumption. The results of the project contribute towards developing innovations in the hospitality sector that can tackle global societal challenges by exploiting the impact of new technology and understanding of consumer behavior to promote a healthy lifestyle and economy. Next to academic publications and conference contributions, the project will develop a handbook for hospitality professionals. It will outline steps and design criteria for the implementation of XR technologies to create immersive experiences that can stimulate sustainable consumption behavior. The knowledge generated in the project will contribute to the development of the curriculum at the Academy for Hotel and Facility at Breda University of Applied Sciences by introducing a technology-driven experience design approach for the course Sustainable Strategic Business Design.
Aanleiding: Blijven bewegen is voor ouderen van belang om zo lang mogelijk zelfstandig thuis te kunnen functioneren en te kunnen blijven participeren in de samenleving. Uit onderzoek blijkt echter dat slechts de helft van de 65-plussers voldoet aan de Nederlandse Norm Gezond Bewegen. Doelgerichte interventies op maat zijn nodig om hen aan het bewegen te houden. Fysiotherapeuten en oefentherapeuten Mensendieck en Cesar willen met een nieuw preventie-aanbod adequaat anticiperen op de beginnende fysieke functioneringsproblemen van ouderen. Maar preventie is een ander en nieuwer kennisdomein dan zorg en vraagt om andere en nieuwe kennis en vaardigheden van de professionals. Het implementeren van innovaties in de zorg- of preventiemarkt blijkt in de praktijk bovendien niet gemakkelijk. Doelstelling Het hoofddoel van dit RAAK-project is om in nauwe samenwerking met ouderen de basis te verstevigen voor het duurzaam implementeren van preventieve beweegprogramma's voor ouderen door fysio- en oefentherapeuten. In het project wordt voortgebouwd op de Functionele Training Ouderen (FTO), een state-of-the-art preventief beweegprogramma dat op korte termijn effectief gebleken is in een onderzoeksomgeving, maar nog niet breed is geïmplementeerd. In zogenoemde KennisNetwerk Ouderen en Preventie (KNOP)-teams geven professionals en de beoogde eindgebruikers (ouderen 70+) samen vorm aan de implementatie van FTO en aan het realiseren van het gelieerde onderzoek. Beoogde resultaten De concrete resultaten van dit project zijn onder andere: " een handleiding van een preventief beweegprogramma; " best practices voor implementatie van preventieve beweegprogramma's in verschillende praktijksituaties; " een minor over het onderwerp; " casussen in CGO- en PGO-onderwijs over preventief bewegen bij 70+-ouderen; " meerdere publicaties. Om een goed netwerk te bouwen streeft het consortium ernaar ten minste 300 therapeuten te bereiken van wie ten minste 50 FTO geïmplementeerd hebben en de overige bereid zijn tot implementeren. Aanleiding: Blijven bewegen is voor ouderen van belang om zo lang mogelijk zelfstandig thuis te kunnen functioneren en te kunnen blijven participeren in de samenleving. Uit onderzoek blijkt echter dat slechts de helft van de 65-plussers voldoet aan de Nederlandse Norm Gezond Bewegen. Doelgerichte interventies op maat zijn nodig om hen aan het bewegen te houden. Fysiotherapeuten en oefentherapeuten Mensendieck en Cesar willen met een nieuw preventie-aanbod adequaat anticiperen op de beginnende fysieke functioneringsproblemen van ouderen. Maar preventie is een ander en nieuwer kennisdomein dan zorg en vraagt om andere en nieuwe kennis en vaardigheden van de professionals. Het implementeren van innovaties in de zorg- of preventiemarkt blijkt in de praktijk bovendien niet gemakkelijk. Doelstelling Het hoofddoel van dit RAAK-project is om in nauwe samenwerking met ouderen de basis te verstevigen voor het duurzaam implementeren van preventieve beweegprogramma's voor ouderen door fysio- en oefentherapeuten. In het project wordt voortgebouwd op de Functionele Training Ouderen (FTO), een state-of-the-art preventief beweegprogramma dat op korte termijn effectief gebleken is in een onderzoeksomgeving, maar nog niet breed is geïmplementeerd. In zogenoemde KennisNetwerk Ouderen en Preventie (KNOP)-teams geven professionals en de beoogde eindgebruikers (ouderen 70+) samen vorm aan de implementatie van FTO en aan het realiseren van het gelieerde onderzoek. Beoogde resultaten De concrete resultaten van dit project zijn onder andere: " een handleiding van een preventief beweegprogramma; " best practices voor implementatie van preventieve beweegprogramma's in verschillende praktijksituaties; " een minor over het onderwerp; " casussen in CGO- en PGO-onderwijs over preventief bewegen bij 70+-ouderen; " meerdere publicaties. Om een goed netwerk te bouwen streeft het consortium ernaar ten minste 300 therapeuten te bereiken van wie ten minste 50 FTO geïmplementeerd hebben en de overige bereid zijn tot implementeren.
