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The association between psychosocial factors and change in lifestyle behaviour following lifestyle advice and information about cardiovascular disease risk

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, June 2018
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Title
The association between psychosocial factors and change in lifestyle behaviour following lifestyle advice and information about cardiovascular disease risk
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BMC Public Health, June 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12889-018-5655-7
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Rebecca A Dennison, Adina L Feldman, Juliet A Usher-Smith, Simon J Griffin

Abstract

Physical activity (PA) and fruit and vegetable intake (FVI) are two key modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Achieving change in these behaviours is challenging and affected by many variables including psychosocial factors. We aimed to investigate the association between social support, stress and mood, and change in PA and FVI following provision of CVD risk information and web-based lifestyle advice. Seven hundred sixteen blood donors (56% male; mean age 57 years) from the intervention arms of the Information and Risk Modification (INFORM) trial, a randomised controlled trial to assess the impact of providing CVD risk and web-based lifestyle information, were analysed as a prospective cohort. We used linear and logistic regression analyses to quantify the association between social support, stress and mood at baseline and behaviour change following the intervention. We modelled objective (average acceleration measured by Axivity AX3 wrist-worn accelerometers and plasma carotenoid levels) and subjective (self-reported recreational PA and FVI) outcomes as change between baseline and 12 weeks follow-up. There was no clear association between social support and change in objective or subjective PA. Higher levels of stress and, to a lesser extent, depression symptoms were associated with smaller improvement in self-reported PA (β -1.53 h/week vigorous PA, 95% confidence interval (CI) -2.30 to -0.75, p < 0.001 for stress; β -1.64 h/week, 95% CI -3.50 to 0.21, p = 0.082 for little interest). Higher social support was associated with greater odds and higher stress was associated with lower odds of increasing self-reported FVI to five portions per day (odds ratio (OR) 1.33, 95% CI 1.05 to 1.69, p = 0.020 for social support; OR 0.57, 95% CI 0.43 to 0.76, p < 0.001 for stress). The associations between psychosocial factors and objective FVI were not statistically significant. High stress and low mood may reduce the likelihood and extent of reported change in PA and FVI following CVD risk information and advice. Greater social support may be associated with increased FVI. The role of psychosocial factors should be considered when developing, tailoring and evaluating future interventions. Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN17721237 . Registered 12 January 2015.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 162 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 23 14%
Student > Master 18 11%
Researcher 16 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 5%
Other 20 12%
Unknown 63 39%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 26 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 22 14%
Psychology 12 7%
Sports and Recreations 9 6%
Social Sciences 8 5%
Other 15 9%
Unknown 70 43%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 October 2018.
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#2,095,355
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#2,420
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#42,279
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#60
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