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Is physical activity a gateway behavior for diet? Findings from a physical activity trialGareth R Dutton
Florida State University College of Medicine, Department of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences, 1115 W Call Street, Tallahassee, FL 32306 4300, USA
Prev Med 46:216-21. 2008..The current investigation examined cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between health behaviors within the context of a physical activity (PA) intervention...
What words should we use when discussing excess weight?Gareth R Dutton
Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, FL, USA
J Am Board Fam Med 23:606-13. 2010..There is limited research on how patients prefer physicians to communicate about the topic of obesity, and there is even less understanding of which terms physicians most commonly use...
Weight loss goals of patients in a health maintenance organizationGareth R Dutton
Florida State University College of Medicine, Department of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences, 1115 W Call St, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
Eat Behav 11:74-8. 2010..Future, longitudinal research is needed to document the discrepancy between these goals and actual weight loss achieved in such settings as well as to determine whether excessive goals are associated with diminished treatment outcomes...
Comparison of physician weight loss goals for obese male and female patientsGareth R Dutton
Florida State University College of Medicine, 1115 W Call St, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
Prev Med 50:186-8. 2010..The aim of this study was to compare physicians' weight loss goals for obese male and female patients...
Relationship between self-efficacy and physical activity among patients with type 2 diabetesGareth R Dutton
Department of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences, Florida State University College of Medicine, 1115 W Call St, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
J Behav Med 32:270-7. 2009..The purpose of this investigation was to examine whether self-efficacy mediated the relationship between participation in a 1-month, print-based physical activity intervention and improvements in activity levels...
A tailored print-based physical activity intervention for patients with type 2 diabetesGareth R Dutton
Department of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences, Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, FL, USA
Prev Med 47:409-11. 2008..To examine the effects of a tailored, print-based intervention for promoting physical activity among patients with type 2 diabetes...
Promoting physical activity for low-income minority women in primary careGareth R Dutton
Florida State University College of Medicine, Department of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA
Am J Health Behav 31:622-31. 2007..To examine the effects of a primary-care weight management intervention on physical activity (PA) among overweight/obese women...
High trait self-control predicts positive health behaviors and success in weight lossA Will Crescioni
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
J Health Psychol 16:750-9. 2011..These data suggest that trait self-control is, indeed, an important predictor of health behaviors...
The freshman weight gain phenomenon revisitedAaron P Crombie
Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences, College of Human Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
Nutr Rev 67:83-94. 2009..7-3.1 kg, but among individuals who gained weight, the range was narrower, 3.1-3.4 kg. There may be specific groups of students with a greater predisposition for weight gain and future research should focus on identifying those groups...
Relationship of Physical Performance with Body Composition and Bone Mineral Density in Individuals over 60 Years of Age: A Systematic ReviewHyehyung Shin
Department of Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences, College of Human Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 1493, USA
J Aging Res 2011:191896. 2011..Developing standardized methods for PP measurements could help in further investigation and conclusions of its relationship with body composition...
A primary care weight management intervention for low-income African-American womenPamela Davis Martin
Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808 4124, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 14:1412-20. 2006..To determine whether a tailored weight management program, addressing the needs of obese, low-income African-American women, would produce greater weight loss than standard medical care...
Minor life events as predictors of medical utilization in low income African American family practice patientsPhillip J Brantley
Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
J Behav Med 28:395-401. 2005....
Barriers to physical activity among predominantly low-income African-American patients with type 2 diabetesGareth R Dutton
Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, Brown University Medical School, 1 Hoppin Street, Coro Building, Suite 500, Providence, RI 02903, USA
Diabetes Care 28:1209-10. 2005
Validation of the Beck Depression Inventory-II in a low-income African American sample of medical outpatientsKaren B Grothe
Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, LA, USA
Psychol Assess 17:110-4. 2005..These results are consistent with previous findings and thus support the use of the BDI-II in assessing depressive symptoms for African American patients in a medical setting...
Use of the Beck Depression Inventory-II with African American primary care patientsGareth R Dutton
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 26:437-42. 2004..94. Similar to findings with predominantly Caucasian samples, current results suggest the BDI-II is an appropriate and accurate instrument to use for depression screening among African American primary care patients...
Use of the weight efficacy lifestyle questionnaire with African American women: validation and extension of previous findingsGareth R Dutton
Center for Primary Care Research, Earl K Long Medical Center, Louisiana State University, 5825 Airline Hwy, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Eat Behav 5:375-84. 2004..Results indicate the WEL may be a valid measure of self-efficacy for overweight and obese African American women, although researchers should be mindful of the variation in scale properties when using the WEL with this population...
Self-efficacy as a predictor of weight change in African-American womenPamela D Martin
Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808 4124, USA
Obes Res 12:646-51. 2004..The purpose of this study was to determine whether self-efficacy for weight loss was predictive of weight change in a sample of African-American women...
