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What Is Nutrition Counseling and How it Can Help You Achieve Your Weight Management Goals

Dr. Michael Bazel

Yet, for many people, weight management feels like an uphill battle. Finding a sustainable approach may seem overwhelming with so much conflicting information about diets, exercise routines, and lifestyle changes. Unlike one-size-fits-all diet plans, nutrition counseling focuses on your individual needs.

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Key Strategies to Foster Effective Champions for Continuous Quality Improvement in Primary Healthcare Clinics [Research capacity building]

Annals of Family Medicine

Champions in CQI refer to individuals who lead or facilitate such initiatives, and they seem to be a key ingredient in promoting quality improvement in Primary healthcare Clinics (PHC). Data were collected through documentary analysis and individual semi-structured interviews.

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A Multisite CFIR Study of Readiness to Implement Collaboration Oriented Approach to Controlling High Blood Pressure (COACH) [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population Studied: Primary care team members involved in high blood pressure management. Outcome Measures: Interview questions and analysis were guided by five CFIR domains (innovation source, inner and outer setting, individuals, and implementation process).

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Psychological treatments improve outcomes in opioid-treated chronic low back pain: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial. [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

DESIGN/ANALYSIS: This multisite, pragmatic, stakeholder input-informed, randomized controlled trial (RCT) compared CBT and MBT in opioid-treated CLBP. Cognitive behavioral (CBT) and mindfulness-based (MBT) therapies are safe and evidence-based for chronic pain, but their long-term effects have not been well-studied in opioid-treated CLBP.

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Patient and Caregiver Use of Patient Portal Features [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Patient portals (PPs) are online healthcare platforms enabling patients access their electronic health records and offering different features to help patients manage their care such as viewing and entering health information, and permitting asynchronous communication between patients and their providers.

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Diabetes related complications among Ethiopian Jews-Outcomes of a 10 years cohort study in Israel [Population health and epidemiology]

Annals of Family Medicine

Design and analysis: The study employed a comprehensive cohort design to compare individuals with T2D who were Ethiopian-born to their Israeli-born counterparts. Data for this investigation were sourced from a community-based approach, utilizing information from CHS, which integrates data from community sources and hospitals.

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Enhancing Mental Health Care Through Sensory Modulation

Physician's Weekly

Reflections from managers and staff indicated that service users felt more equipped to manage anxiety in daily life through newly learned sensory strategies. ” Reflections also emphasized the necessity for a tailored manual for individuals with cognitive challenges and additional staff training.