Theory-based smoking cessation interventions helped to motivate patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who smoke to quit, ultimately improving their quality of life and lung ...

Although clinicians have traditionally used the Finnegan Neonatal Abstinence Scoring Tool to assess the severity of neonatal opioid withdrawal, a newer function-based approach — the Eat, Sleep, ...

Sickle Cell Disease (SCD), an inherited hemoglobinopathy, has become an important public health challenge globally, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, due to its susceptibility to ...

This chapter addresses the elements—therapeutic activities, techniques, or strategies—that make up psychosocial interventions. Most if not all evidence-based, manualized psychosocial interventions are ...

We draw on an existing framework (the Population, Intervention, Environment, Transfer-T process model) for assessing transferability of interventions between distinct settings and apply the model to ...

Emmeline Edwards (left) is the Director of the Division of Extramural Research at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH; MD, USA). She is also the co-chair of the ...

Objectives To determine if subpopulations of students benefit equally from school-based physical activity interventions in terms of cardiorespiratory fitness and physical activity. To examine if ...