Browsing by Author "Dragonetti, Rosa"

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    Healthcare providers’ perspectives on implementing a brief physical activity and diet intervention within a primary care smoking cessation program: a qualitative study
    (2024-01-06) Minian, Nadia; Mehra, Kamna; Lingam, Mathangee; Dragonetti, Rosa; Veldhuizen, Scott; Zawertailo, Laurie; deRuiter, Wayne K.; Melamed, Osnat C.; Moineddin, Rahim; Thorpe, Kevin E.; Taylor, Valerie H.; Hahn, Margaret; Selby, Peter
    Abstract Background Post-smoking-cessation weight gain can be a major barrier to quitting smoking; however, adding behavior change interventions for physical activity (PA) and diet may adversely affect smoking cessation outcomes. The “Picking up the PACE (Promoting and Accelerating Change through Empowerment)” study assessed change in PA, fruit/vegetable consumption, and smoking cessation by providing a clinical decision support system for healthcare providers to utilize at the intake appointment, and found no significant change in PA, fruits/vegetable consumption, or smoking cessation. The objective of this qualitative study was to explore the factors affecting the implementation of the intervention and contextualize the quantitative results. Methods Twenty-five semi-structured interviews were conducted with healthcare providers, using questions based on the National Implementation Research Network’s Hexagon Tool. The data were analyzed using the framework’s standard analysis approach. Results Most healthcare providers reported a need to address PA and fruit/vegetable consumption in patients trying to quit smoking, and several acknowledged that the intervention was a good fit since exercise and diet could improve smoking cessation outcomes. However, many healthcare providers mentioned the need to explain the fit to the patients. Social determinants of health (e.g., low income, food insecurity) were brought up as barriers to the implementation of the intervention by a majority of healthcare providers. Most healthcare providers recognized training as a facilitator to the implementation, but time was mentioned as a barrier by many of healthcare providers. Majority of healthcare providers mentioned allied health professionals (e.g., dieticians, physiotherapists) supported the implementation of the PACE intervention. However, most healthcare providers reported a need for individualized approach and adaptation of the intervention based on the patients’ needs when implementing the intervention. The COVID-19 pandemic was found to impact the implementation of the PACE intervention based on the Hexagon Tool indicators. Conclusion There appears to be a need to utilize a flexible approach when addressing PA and fruit/vegetable consumption within a smoking cessation program, based on the context of clinic, the patients’ it is serving, and their life circumstances. Healthcare providers need support and external resources to implement this particular intervention. Name of the registry Clinicaltrials.gov. Trial registration number NCT04223336. Date of registration 7 January 2020 Retrospectively registered. URL of trial registry record https://classic.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04223336 .
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    Identifying contexts and mechanisms in multiple behavior change interventions affecting smoking cessation success: a rapid realist review
    (2020-06-12) Minian, Nadia; Corrin, Tricia; Lingam, Mathangee; deRuiter, Wayne K; Rodak, Terri; Taylor, Valerie H; Manson, Heather; Dragonetti, Rosa; Zawertailo, Laurie; Melamed, Osnat C; Hahn, Margaret; Selby, Peter
    Abstract Background Smoking continues to be a leading cause of preventable chronic disease-related morbidity and mortality, excess healthcare expenditure, and lost work productivity. Tobacco users are disproportionately more likely to be engaging in other modifiable risk behaviours such as excess alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, and poor diet. While hundreds of interventions addressing the clustering of smoking and other modifiable risk behaviours have been conducted worldwide, there is insufficient information available about the context and mechanisms in these interventions that promote successful smoking cessation. The aim of this rapid realist review was to identify possible contexts and mechanisms used in multiple health behaviour change interventions (targeting tobacco and two or more additional risk behaviours) that are associated with improving smoking cessation outcome. Methods This realist review method incorporated the following steps: (1) clarifying the scope, (2) searching for relevant evidence, (3) relevance confirmation, data extraction, and quality assessment, (4) data analysis and synthesis. Results Of the 20,423 articles screened, 138 articles were included in this realist review. Following Michie et al.’s behavior change model (the COM-B model), capability, opportunity, and motivation were used to identify the mechanisms of behaviour change. Universally, increasing opportunities (i.e. factors that lie outside the individual that prompt the behaviour or make it possible) for participants to engage in healthy behaviours was associated with smoking cessation success. However, increasing participant’s capability or motivation to make a behaviour change was only successful within certain contexts. Conclusion In order to address multiple health behaviours and assist individuals in quitting smoking, public health promotion interventions need to shift away from ‘individualistic epidemiology’ and invest resources into modifying factors that are external from the individual (i.e. creating a supportive environment). Trial registration PROSPERO registration number: CRD42017064430
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    A province wide needs assessment of service providers : a summary report on compulsive gambling in Ontario
    (Addiction Research Foundation (ARF), 1995) Dragonetti, Rosa; Faveri, Andrea
    In November 1994, the Ministry of Health announced that monies would be allocated to community organizations, namely, the Canadian Foundation on Compulsive Gambling, the Addiction Research Foundation, and the Donwood Institute to help deal with problem gamblers. ARF's role would be to develop a treatment curriculum and to train staff of mental health, family counselling and addiction agencies to identify and treat problem gamblers. Before developing a training curriculum, it was important to ask the service providers of Ontario for their input. The primary objective of the needs assessment was to determine if and how problem gamblers were presenting to community agencies, how the service providers were dealing with problem gamblers and what type of training would be most beneficial for agency staff in relation to gambling issues.