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Reducing occupational sitting time and improving worker health: the Take-a-Stand Project, 2011Nicolaas P Pronk
Journey Well, HealthPartners, Mail Stop 21111H, PO Box 1309, 8170 33rd Ave South, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1309, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 9:E154. 2012..Prolonged sitting time is a health risk. We describe a practice-based study designed to reduce prolonged sitting time and improve selected health factors among workers with sedentary jobs...- Knowledge of energy balance guidelines and associated clinical care practices: the U.S. National Survey of Energy Balance Related Care among Primary Care PhysiciansNicolaas P Pronk
HealthPartners and HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Prev Med 55:28-33. 2012..To assess primary care physicians' (PCPs) knowledge of energy balance related guidelines and the association with sociodemographic characteristics and clinical care practices... - Tobacco cessation interventions in dental networks: a practice-based evaluation of the impact of education on provider knowledge, referrals, and pharmacotherapy useDarla Havlicek
HealthPartners Health Behavior Group, Minneapolis, Minn, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 3:A96. 2006..g., sharing of project data, weekly newsletters, discussion at clinic meetings). Results indicate that this approach to addressing tobacco dependence in a dental clinic setting can effectively change dental provider knowledge and action... - Comparative effectiveness of lifestyle interventions on cardiovascular risk factors among a Dutch overweight working population: a randomized controlled trialJohanna C Dekkers
EMGO Institute and Department of Public and Occupational Health, VU University Medical Center, Van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Public Health 11:49. 2011..The main aim of this study was to investigate lifestyle intervention effects on cardiovascular risk factors in healthy overweight employees... - ALIFE@Work: a randomised controlled trial of a distance counselling lifestyle programme for weight control among an overweight working population [ISRCTN04265725]Marieke F van Wier
Department of Public and Occupational Health EMGO Institute, VU University Medical Center, Van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Public Health 6:140. 2006..This article describes the design of the study and the participant flow up to and including randomisation... - A new approach to physical activity maintenance: rationale, design, and baseline data from the Keep Active Minnesota TrialNancy E Sherwood
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN, USA
BMC Geriatr 8:17. 2008.... 
Obesity, fitness, willingness to communicate and health care costsN P Pronk
HealthPartners, Center for Health Promotion, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1309, USA
Med Sci Sports Exerc 31:1535-43. 1999..In addition, we tested the hypothesis that willingness to communicate is directly associated with an individual's readiness to change behavior...
Physical activity promotion as a strategic corporate priority to improve worker health and business performanceNicolaas P Pronk
JourneyWell, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1309, USA
Prev Med 49:316-21. 2009..The increasingly sedentary nature of work and its impact on health and productivity indicators demands the promotion of physical activity at the worksite...- Addressing multiple behavioral risk factors in primary care. A synthesis of current knowledge and stakeholder dialogue sessionsNicolaas P Pronk
HealthPartners, Center for Health Promotion, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Am J Prev Med 27:4-17. 2004..Multiple perspectives and broad insight are urgently needed to gain a deeper understanding of the interacting scientific, systems, and policy issues associated with multiple risk factor interventions (MRFIs)... - Meeting recommendations for multiple healthy lifestyle factors. Prevalence, clustering, and predictors among adolescent, adult, and senior health plan membersNicolaas P Pronk
Center for Health Promotion, HealthPartners Research Foundation, HealthPartners, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Am J Prev Med 27:25-33. 2004..Such data may guide both clinical and health policy decision making and person-centered approaches to population health improvement... - Adherence to optimal lifestyle behaviors is related to emotional health indicators among employeesNicolaas P Pronk
JourneyWell, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55440 1309, USA
Popul Health Manag 14:59-67. 2011..While causality cannot be inferred, the strength of the associations warrants trials to determine the extent to which adopting positive lifestyles can result in improved mental health... - The association between optimal lifestyle adherence and short-term incidence of chronic conditions among employeesNicolaas P Pronk
JourneyWell, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1309, USA
Popul Health Manag 13:289-95. 2010..Employers and payers should consider this fact when formulating policy or allocating resources for health care and health promotion... - The association between health assessment-derived summary health scores and health care costsNicolaas P Pronk
HealthPartners, Minneapolis, MN 55440, USA
J Occup Environ Med 53:872-8. 2011..To study the association between summary health scores and health care costs in the following year... - A platform for population-based weight management: description of a health plan-based integrated systems approachNicolaas P Pronk
Center for Health Promotion, HealthPartners, Minneapolis, Minn 55440, USA
Am J Manag Care 8:847-57. 2002..To describe an integrated, operational platform from which mail- and telephone-based health promotion programs are implemented and to specifically relate this approach to weight management programming in a managed care setting... - Mail and phone interventions for weight loss in a managed-care setting: weigh-to-be 2-year outcomesN E Sherwood
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440-1524, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 30:1565-73. 2006..CONCLUSION: Although mail- and phone-based weight-loss programs are a reasonably efficient way to deliver weight-loss services, additional work is needed to enhance their short- and long-term efficacy... - Complementary and alternative medicine use among health plan members. A cross-sectional surveyCarolyn M Gray
Center for Health Promotion, HealthPartners, Minneapolis, Minn 55440-1309, USA
Eff Clin Pract 5:17-22. 2002..CONCLUSION: CAM use is highly prevalent among health plan members. CAM users report more physical and emotional limitations than do nonusers. CAM does not seem to be a substitute for conventional preventive health care... - Professional advice and readiness to change behavioral risk factors among members of a managed care organizationP J O'Connor
Health Partners Research Foundation, 8100 34th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Am J Manag Care 7:125-30. 2001..To ascertain factors related to readiness to change behavioral risk factors in members of a managed care organization (MCO)... - The comparative and cumulative effects of a dietary restriction and exercise on weight lossC L Dunn
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55454, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 30:112-21. 2006..To assess the independence of changes made in diet and physical activity for weight loss; and, to examine the comparative and cumulative effects of these behavioral changes on weight loss outcomes... - Weight loss goals and treatment outcomes among overweight men and women enrolled in a weight loss trialJ A Linde
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 29:1002-5. 2005..Goals were not associated with participation or weight loss for men. Results are more supportive of the idea that higher goals motivate women to lose weight than of the hypothesis that high goals undermine effort... - Screening for diabetes mellitus in high-risk patients: cost, yield, and acceptabilityP J O'Connor
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Eff Clin Pract 4:271-7. 2001..Little is known about the cost, yield, or acceptability of this kind of screening... - The role of the certified diabetes educator in telephone counselingJ T Hayes
HealthPartners, Center for Health Promotion, 8100 34th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1309, USA
Diabetes Educ 27:377-86. 2001..This paper describes a telephone-based, outcomes-focused approach to diabetes education provided by certified diabetes educators (CDEs)... - Binge eating disorder, weight control self-efficacy, and depression in overweight men and womenJ A Linde
Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 28:418-25. 2004..To examine binge eating, depression, weight self-efficacy, and weight control success among obese individuals seeking treatment in a managed care organization... - Satisfaction with a weight loss program: what matters?Jeffrey J VanWormer
Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55407, USA
Am J Health Promot 24:238-45. 2010..Satisfaction is understudied in weight loss programs. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between participant/program experiences and satisfaction with a weight loss intervention... - Characteristics of adults who use prayer as an alternative therapyPATRICK J O'CONNOR
HealthPartners Research Foundation, PO Box 1524, MS 23302G, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Am J Health Promot 19:369-75. 2005..To describe the demographics, health-related and preventive-health behaviors, health status, and health care charges of adults who do and do not pray for health... - Proactive recruitment of health plan smokers into telephone counselingRaymond G Boyle
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 9:581-9. 2007..Although other variations of this approach might be tested, we suspect that it might be more useful to test innovative ways to influence the factors we identified as being most strongly predictive of lack of successful quitting... - A randomized trial of telephone counseling with adult moist snuff usersRaymond G Boyle
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440, USA
Am J Health Behav 28:347-51. 2004..To evaluate telephone counseling for moist snuff use... - Recruitment to mail and telephone interventions for obesity in a managed care environment: the Weigh-To-Be projectRobert W Jeffery
Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, 1300 South Second Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, Minn 55454, USA
Am J Manag Care 10:378-82. 2004..To evaluate the success of mail- and telephone-based weight loss programs in recruiting a representative sample of overweight members of a managed care organization (MCO)... - The comparative effectiveness of heart disease prevention and treatment strategiesThomas E Kottke
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55440 1524, USA
Am J Prev Med 36:82-88. 2009..Policymakers must be able to calculate the comparative effectiveness of interventions to control heart disease if they are to optimize the population impact of programmatic initiatives... - Readiness of US health plans to manage cardiometabolic riskThomas E Kottke
HealthPartners Research Foundation, 8170 33rd Ave S, PO Box 1524, MS 21111R, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 6:A86. 2009..Our goal was to determine health plan interest in and ability to provide CMR control services... - The association between work performance and physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and obesityNicolaas P Pronk
Center for Health Promotion, HealthPartners, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55440 1309, USA
J Occup Environ Med 46:19-25. 2004..It is concluded that lifestyle-related modifiable health risk factors significantly impact employee work performance... - Changes in physical activity and short-term changes in health care charges: a prospective cohort study of older adultsBrian C Martinson
HealthPartners Research Foundation, 3105 East 80th Street, Mod C, Suite 299, Bloomington, MN 55425, USA
Prev Med 37:319-26. 2003..This study examines the prospective relationship of changes in physical activity status on short-term changes in health care charges for older adults... - Identifying individuals at risk for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitusTeresa L Pearson
Partners for Better Health Integration, Center for Health Promotion, HealthPartners, 8100 34th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1309, USA
Am J Manag Care 9:57-66. 2003..To describe a population-based approach to the identification of individuals at high risk for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM)... - Physical activity optimizing practice through researchThomas E Kottke
The Heart Center, Regions Hospital, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Am J Prev Med 31:S8-10. 2006 - Telephone-based counseling improves dietary fat, fruit, and vegetable consumption: a best-evidence synthesisJeffrey J VanWormer
HealthPartners Center for Health Promotion, PO Box 1309, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1309, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 106:1434-44. 2006..At present, telephone-based counseling may best be used as a complement to clinical care and a means to broaden the outreach of nutrition services... - Frequency of physician-directed assistance for smoking cessation in patients receiving cessation medicationsLeif I Solberg
HealthPartners and HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:656-60. 2005..Little is known about current physician-patient interactions regarding smoking cessation when a prescription is given for cessation medications... - Offering telephone counseling to smokers using pharmacotherapyRaymond G Boyle
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 7:S19-27. 2005..The results varied by gender and amount smoked. In addition, the variables associated with quitting in a multivariate logistic regression model included older age and using more than 30 days of medication... - Health care charges associated with physical inactivity, overweight, and obesityLouise H Anderson
HealthPartners Research Foundation, 8100 34th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1309, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 2:A09. 2005..The objective of this study was to estimate the proportion of total health care charges associated with physical inactivity, overweight, and obesity among U.S. populations aged 40 years and older... - Mail and phone interventions for weight loss in a managed-care setting: Weigh-To-Be one-year outcomesR W Jeffery
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 27:1584-92. 2003..To describe methods, recruitment success, and 1-y results of a study evaluating the effectiveness of phone- and mail-based weight-loss interventions in a managed care setting... - Smoking cessation attempts in relation to prior health care charges: the effect of antecedent smoking-related symptoms?Brian C Martinson
HealthPartners Research Foundation, 8100 34th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Am J Health Promot 18:125-32. 2003..We hypothesize that elevated charges among former smokers reflect differential cessation of sicker individuals. We ascertained the relationship between prior health care charges and time to smoking cessation... - Population reach and recruitment bias in a maintenance RCT in physically active older adultsBrian C Martinson
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN, USA
J Phys Act Health 7:127-35. 2010.... - Self-weighing promotes weight loss for obese adultsJeffrey J VanWormer
Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55407, USA
Am J Prev Med 36:70-3. 2009..Not all experts agree on its utility, and the literature supporting its effectiveness is somewhat limited by methodologic shortcomings related to the subjective assessment of self-weighing frequency... - Physical activity promotion in business and industry: evidence, context, and recommendations for a national planNicolaas P Pronk
JourneyWell, the Dept of Health Promotion, HealthPartners Research Foundation, HealthPartners, Bloomington, MN, USA
J Phys Act Health 6:S220-35. 2009..It is the purpose of this paper to outline an evidence-based approach to promote physical activity in the business and industry sector in support of a National Physical Activity Plan... - Lifestyle behavior change and coronary artery disease: effectiveness of a telephone-based counseling programJeffrey J VanWormer
HealthPartners Center for Health Promotion, PO Box 1309, Mailstop 21111H, Minneapolis, MN 55440-1309, USA
J Nutr Educ Behav 36:333-4. 2004 - Physical inactivity and short-term all-cause mortality in adults with chronic diseaseB C Martinson
HealthPartners Research Foundation, 8100 34th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Arch Intern Med 161:1173-80. 2001..To ascertain the relationship of physical inactivity and short-term all-cause mortality in a prospective cohort of randomly selected managed care organization members aged 40 years and older who have multiple chronic diseases... - Effects of efforts to increase response rates on a workplace chronic condition screening surveyPhilip S Wang
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Med Care 40:752-60. 2002..Confirmation of these results is required, however, in new samples. Additional research is also needed on innovative and cost-effective strategies to improve HRA response rates... - Self-weighing in weight gain prevention and weight loss trialsJennifer A Linde
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis 55454 1015, USA
Ann Behav Med 30:210-6. 2005..Although self-monitoring is a central tenet of behavioral approaches to changing health behavior, clinical and public health recommendations for better controlling body weight do not emphasize weight self-monitoring... - Effects of major depression on moment-in-time work performancePhilip S Wang
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Psychiatry 161:1885-91. 2004..The authors used the experience sampling method to address this problem by collecting comparative data on moment-in-time work performance among service workers who were depressed and those who were not depressed... - Assessing multiple risk behaviors in primary care. Screening issues and related conceptsThomas F Babor
Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, USA
Am J Prev Med 27:42-53. 2004.... - Translating what we have learned into practice. Principles and hypotheses for interventions addressing multiple behaviors in primary careRussell E Glasgow
Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Clinical Research Unit, Denver, Colorado, USA
Am J Prev Med 27:88-101. 2004..Still, there is enough consistency of findings to present testable hypotheses for clinicians and administrators to evaluate and guide practice until more definitive evidence is available...