Lori L Sanderson
The purpose of this research letter is to report on the availability of evidence-based interventions for promoting lifestyle change in children and adolescents with diabetes or kidney disease. References for this review were obtained using several electronic databases, including Ebsco Host, PsychInfo, Medline, and CINAHL. Search topics included transplant adherence, diabetes adherence, kidney adherence, obesity and transplant, kidney disease, transplant noncompliance, renal failure, renal disease, chronic kidney failure, end-stage renal disease, obesity and diabetes, overweight and kidney disease, overweight and diabetes, overweight, treatment interventions and overweight, treatment interventions for obesity, children and obesity, growth chart, diabetes intervention, kidney disease intervention, obesity intervention, obesity and transplantation, obesity transplant intervention, motivational interviewing, physical activity level, physical activity, exercise intervention, body mass index measurement, body fat percentage, psychosocial issues of kidney disease, psychosocial issues of transplant, and coping with kidney disease...
April 1, 2010: Journal of Primary Care & Community Health