Feasibility and acceptability of a multiple risk factor intervention: the Step Up randomized pilot trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Interventions are needed which can successfully modify more than one disease risk factor at a time, but much remains to be learned about the acceptability, feasibility, and effectiveness of multiple risk factor (MRF) interventions. To address these issues and inform future intervention development, we conducted a randomized pilot trial (n = 52). This study was designed to assess the feasibility and acceptability of the Step Up program, a MRF cognitive-behavioral program designed to improve participants' mental and physical well-being by reducing depressive symptoms, promoting smoking cessation, and increasing physical activity.

Methods

Participants were recruited from a large health care organization and randomized to receive usual care treatment for depression, s

SUBMITTER: McClure JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3072336 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature