Ilka Lowensteyn's research while affiliated with McGill University and other places

... For example, it can also be used as a low intensity first step in a stepped-care approach to mental health treatment (van Straten et al., 2015). This study augments the evidence base on use of lay telephone coaching to treat mental health disorders (McCusker et al., 2022;Lambert et al., 2021). ...

... Although both groups achieved significant weight loss of 9.42% (standard treatment) and 10.63% (implementation added treatment), the differences between the two groups was not statistically significant. There was also no difference in weight regain after 24 months (Knäuper et al., 2020). Both groups had retained approximately 6% weight loss compared to their initial weight. ...

... These associations are consistent with the findings reported by Wynter et al. (2020) in a recent scoping review which showed the link between fathers' sleep problems and their mental health and well-being. Therefore, health professionals should also include interventions focused on the detection, prevention, and management of sleep among the fathers under their care (Da Costa et al., 2019;Wynter et al., 2020). Furthermore, it is advisable to continue investigating sleep in fathers and its associations with their health, given that a significant part of research and clinical practice already focuses on maternal sleep and the mother's health (Coles et al., 2022;Wynter et al., 2020). ...

... Wellnes Program menunjukkan manfaat yang lebih besar di antara karyawan yang berisiko lebih tinggi (Lowensteyn et al., 2019). Karenanya penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui manfaat dari intervensi faktor risiko penyakit jantung koroner di tempat kerja sehingga program pencegahan serupa dapat dirasakan manfaatnya untuk pekerja, perusahaan dan masyarakat lainnya. ...

... Overall, the study designs, methods for promoting habit formation, and targeted behaviors varied widely, as did results of the interventions. All intervention studies reviewed measured habit automaticity using either the SRHI [46,[60][61][62][63] or SRBAI [38,59,[64][65][66]. All of the studies reviewed included a form of planning intervention or prompts/cues as part of the habit-forming intervention [38,46,59,[61][62][63][64][65][66], and five emphasized repetition or included elements of environmental modification to support context stability [46,60,61,64,66]. ...

... Consistent results were also reported in previous studies of workplace-based hypertension management programs despite different effect sizes. [6][7][8][9][10][11] However, neither the cost nor the costeffectiveness of workplace-based hypertension management programs was reported, although they are essential for policy makers and health planners who are making decisions on whether scarce health care system resources should be allocated to such programs or other priorities. ...

... Our results highlight the importance of family-based interventions that counsel fathers on appropriate ways for supporting their child's health and development and address fathers' partner relationships dynamics (eg, coparenting, improved couples communication, conflict resolution skills) as an approach to reducing paternal stress. 41 When faced with mental health problems, fathers more commonly turned to maladaptive coping behaviours than positive coping behaviours. Overall, alcohol use was the most frequently reported coping behaviour of fathers. ...

... Approximately 55% of patients display varying degrees of sleep disorders four months after MI, which can impede cardiac recovery [2]. Notably, clinical observations have revealed that insomnia, including difficulty staying asleep, is prevalent in individuals post-MI [3]. Furthermore, MI patients with short sleep durations have a higher incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) compared to those without sleep disorders [4,5]. ...

... Given the versatility of the Markov model approach in adopting different types of health states patients can potentially experience, this method was further categorized into health state classifications. These typically included an "alive or dead" state [17,19,32,33,39,51,67], NYHA disease classification [15,23,52,58,68], cardiovascular events [22,26,27,38,44,48,66,72,[74][75][76] and hospitalization states [27,49,66,72,[74][75][76]. Specific Markov model structure was unclear in four studies [34,40,69,73]. Seven studies focused on a two-state Markov approach based around the "alive" and "dead" states [17,19,32,33,39,51,67]. ...

... There is an opportunity to provide pregnant women with links to accurate and appropriate nutrition information online, to help guide them and limit some of the burden on healthcare professionals. 29,39 Potential avenues for further development in this space must continue to be explored, with Ainscough et al. 38 previously highlighting the positive impact of a behavioural-lifestyle intervention facilitated through a smartphone app for pregnant women with overweight and obesity. This type of approach may be particularly pertinent for primiparous women, who we observed to have poorer nutrition knowledge in comparison to those that have experienced pregnancy previously. ...