Treating Pre-School Children at Risk for Overweight in the Primary Care Setting
Published on BioPortfolio: 2014-12-11T12:08:44-0500
Clinical Trials
The purpose of this study is to evaluate a family counseling intervention, entitled "Tuko Pamoja" (Translation "We are Together" in Kiswahili). The intervention, delivered by lay counselor...
A Trial of Group Versus Individual Family Planning Counseling in Ghana
This study uses a randomized, noninferiority design to determine whether group family planning counseling is as effective as individual family planning counseling among gynecological patie...
The Activity School in Finnmark
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of a life style counseling programme designed for overweight and obese children and their parents in groups compared to traditional in...
HIV Prevention Counseling for Men Who Have Sex With Men
The purpose of this study is to see if a behavioral intervention, a special kind of counseling, can reduce the risk of HIV infection in men who have sex with men. The behavioral interventi...
Integrating Nutrition Education & Household Food Production for Child Nutrition
In Ethiopia, a child-centered counseling approach is hypothesized to be more effective than the current nutrition and health education when investment on home-based food production is used...
PubMed Articles
The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends offering or referring adults who are overweight or obese and have additional cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors to intensive behavioral...
Investigation of the Use of a Family Health History Application in Genetic Counseling.
The paper-based pedigree is the current standard for family health history (FHH) documentation in genetic counseling. Several tools for electronic capture of family health data have been developed to ...
Contraceptive counseling for continuation and satisfaction.
Quality contraceptive counseling has been identified as a potential means to reduce unintended pregnancy and to increase contraceptive continuation and satisfaction. Past approaches that focused on au...
A survey of willingness about genetic counseling and tests in patients of epithelial ovarian cancer.
Objective: To analyze patients' tendency towards genetics counseling and tests based on a prospective cohort study on hereditary ovarian cancer. Methods: From February 2017 to June 2017, among 220 cas...
Family Planning and Counseling Desires of Women Who Have Experienced Miscarriage.
To explore initial pregnancy intentions and postmiscarriage family planning needs and counseling preferences of women experiencing spontaneous abortion.
Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Directive Counseling
Counseling during which a professional plays an active role in a client's or patient's decision making by offering advice, guidance, and/or recommendations.
Distance Counseling
Counseling conducted via electronic or other non-face-to-face interactions.
Child Guidance Clinics
Facilities which administer the delivery of mental health counseling services to children.
Preconception Care
An organized and comprehensive program of health care that identifies and reduces a woman's reproductive risks before conception through risk assessment, health promotion, and interventions. Preconception care programs may be designed to include the male partner in providing counseling and educational information in preparation for fatherhood, such as genetic counseling and testing, financial and family planning, etc. This concept is different from PRENATAL CARE, which occurs during pregnancy.
Acceptance And Commitment Therapy
Contextually focused form of cognitive behavioral psychotherapy that uses MINDFULNESS and behavioral activation to increase patients' psychological flexibility in areas such as ability to engage in values-based, positive behaviors while experiencing difficult thoughts, emotions, or sensations.
