Trial reportBMC public health2017
The Norwegian Healthy Life Study: protocol for a pragmatic RCT with longitudinal follow-up on physical activity and diet for adults.
Trial report in BMC public health, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02247219 (Promoting Health in Healthy Living Centres - Does it Work, How Does it Work and Why?), which is not on this map. Cited by 6 papers.
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Promoting Health in Healthy Living Centres - Does it Work, How Does it Work and Why?
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.
- Physical activity and sedentary time after lifestyle interventions at the Norwegian Healthy Life Centres.Primary health care research & development · 2024Trial
- Healthy and unhealthy eating after a behaviour change intervention in primary care.Primary health care research & development · 2022Trial
- Toward personalized persuasive social robots for behavior change in healthcare: a conceptual framework.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2026Article
- Applications of Behavioral Change Theories and Models in Health Promotion Interventions: A Rapid Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Ten years' of Healthy Life Centers - research and directions for future work.Scandinavian journal of public health · 2022Article
- Individual user involvement at Healthy Life Centres: a qualitative study exploring the perspective of health professionals.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2018Article
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundThe Norwegian Directorate of Health recommends that Healthy Life Centres (HLCs) be established in primary health care to support behaviour change and reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases. The aim of the present study protocol is to present the rationale, design and methods of a combined pragmatic randomized controlled trial (RCT) and longitudinal cohort study of the effects of attending HLCs concerning physical activity, sedentary behaviour and diet and to explore how psychological well-being and motivational factors may mediate short- and long-term effects.
methodsThe present study will combine a 6-month RCT with a longitudinal cohort study (24 months from baseline) conducted at six HLCs from June 2014 to Sept 2017. Participants are randomized to behavioural change interventions or a 6-month waiting list control group. DISCUSSION: A randomized trial of interventions in HLCs has the potential to influence the development of policy and practice for behaviour change interventions and patient education programmes in Norway. We discuss some of the important preconditions for obtaining valid results from a complex intervention and outline some of the characteristics of ecological approaches in health care research that can enable a pragmatic intervention study.
trial registrationThe study was retrospectively registered on September 19, 2014 and is available online at ClinicalTrials.gov (ID: NCT02247219 ).
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