This study examined feasibility and acceptability, and provided an indication of behavioural impact, of a telephone-based, multimodal health behaviour intervention for CRC survivors.
Data from a RCT of a theory-based online health behaviour intervention for new university students ("U@Uni") were used to estimate the cost of the intervention and its short-term cost-effectiveness.
Similarly, depression screening and treatment may be beneficial alongside health-behaviour interventions for obesity.
Further research is needed on development of effective multiple-behaviour interventions for this target group, which also must be tailored to the needs of specific subgroups such as HIV positive men [ 20, 31- 33] and HIV negative men, who are at greater risk for infections with HIV/STI [ 34].
To our knowledge, this is the first study to use this approach for a behaviour change intervention for patients with chronic respiratory disease.
This pilot study aimed to test the acceptability and short-term effectiveness of a telephone-delivered multiple health behaviour change intervention for relatives of colorectal cancer survivors.
In the process, we learned several important lessons related to the scope of the intervention and necessary compromises, the tension between static interventions and dynamic contexts, and the challenges of rigorously designing a behaviour change intervention for low-resource settings.
Furthermore, we have studied the development of these markers after a structured nutrition-exercise-behaviour-intervention program for obese children in order to see whether improvement of markers of obesity will result in improvement in noninvasive markers of associated liver disease.
Behaviour-change interventions for chronic conditions often target change in behaviour, 8 defined as coordinated sets of activities designed to change particular behaviour patterns.
The Goldblatt and Lewis report countered the 'nothing works' mantra as regards penal sanctions and rehabilitative treatment (especially cognitive behaviour therapy); early intervention for young at-risk children was also recommended.
