Social support interventions were linked to weight loss at the end of intervention and 3- and 6-month follow-ups. Social support may have a significant effect on weight loss interventions, according ...

Support interventions such as group meetings and family sessions that promoted healthy behaviors resulted in a 29% increased probability of survival over time. Research from BYU professors Timothy ...

Social support interventions designed to combat depression and improve quality of life among older adults show limited effectiveness, according to a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis ...

In a just-released report, Grant Duwe, academic adviser to AEI for Criminial Justice Reform and research director for the Minnesota Department of Corrections, explains how social support for prisoners ...

Natural language processing can be used for automated extraction of social work interventions from electronic health records, thereby supporting social work staffing and resource allocation decisions.

The School Climate Transformation Grant was released in 2014 as a competitive grant to support state educational agencies to develop, enhance, or expand systems of support for, and technical ...

A search of the medical literature was conducted by examining PubMed, MEDLINE and Cochrane Library databases. The search terms used were 'social support' and 'diabetes mellitus, Type 2' by using MeSH.

Medication adherence is most closely associated with emotional and practical support. Articles were included if they directly measured the relationship between medication adherence and some form of ...

Interventions designed to reduce loneliness can be effective, but do not yet offer a complete solution to what is becoming a worldwide public health problem, according to research published by the ...