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- Title
Promoting Healthy Lifestyles: Alternative Models' Effects (PHLAME).
- Authors
Moe, Esther L.; Elliot, Diane L.; Goldberg, Linn; Kuehl, Kerry S.; Stevens, Victor J.; Breger, Rosemary K. R.; Defrancesco, Carol L.; Ernst, Denise; Duncan, Terry; Dulacki, Kristen; Dolen, Sara
- Abstract
The Promoting Healthy Lifestyles: Alternative Models' Effects (PHLAME) study evaluates the efficacy of two intervention strategies for improving nutrition and physical activity practices in fire fighters: a team-centered program and a one-on-one format targeting the individual. PHLAME compares these two behavior change models (the team-based versus the one-on-one approaches) against a usual-care control group. As a group, fire fighters have a concentration of the same harmful behaviors and health risks commonly afflicting the US population. Fire fighters have a unique work structure which is ideal for a team-centered model of behavior change. This strategy, based on Social Learning Theory, focuses on a team of fire fighters who work together on the same shift. If this team-centered model proves successful, it could provide a cost-effective method to impact behavior, and be disseminated among fire bureaus and in other team settings. The one-on-one intervention incorporates the Transtheoretical Model of behavior change, uses Motivational Interviewing for its counseling strategy and could be used in the more typical provider-client clinic setting. Findings from PHLAME will provide information about the process and outcomes of these models' ability to achieve health behavior change.
- Subjects
LIFESTYLES; HEALTH; NUTRITION education; PHYSICAL fitness; FIRE fighters
- Publication
Health Education Research, 2002, Vol 17, Issue 5, p586
- ISSN
0268-1153
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/her/17.5.586