Hope Wicks

ORCID: 0000-0003-4082-2327
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Research Areas
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Obesity and Health Practices
  • Health and Wellbeing Research
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet

Leiden University Medical Center
2022-2023

Aims Most hospitals still lag behind in their policies to stimulate healthier dietary choices by patients. This study investigates whether a multicomponent nudging intervention, designed prompt healthy food choices, can influence of hospitalised Methods pre-postintervention included baseline phase and an intervention (7+7 months) was carried out at the cardiology ward large hospital. All 2419 cardiac patients admitted during this period, 7559 meals were part study. The consisted choice...

10.1136/bmjnph-2024-001059 article EN cc-by-nc-nd BMJ Nutrition Prevention & Health 2025-04-03

Diet is important in prevention and management of non-communicable disease particular, cardiovascular disease. Recently, more hospitals gear towards healthier dietary policies, however, a tool to assess the effect these interventions patient populations currently lacking. The Theory Planned Behavior (TPB) generally used health-related behavior offers framework for development questionnaires. In this study, we aim evaluate reliability, internal consistency preliminary construct validity newly...

10.1016/j.numecd.2022.09.019 article EN cc-by Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases 2022-10-08

Background and aims Adopting healthier diets can drastically improve societal health. Our environment plays a crucial role in daily dietary choices hospitals particular stimulate patients to adopt eating habits. Unfortunately, no robust clinically applicable cuing tools exist help guide in-hospital interventions. The purpose of this study was identify patient-related barriers facilitators adopting choices. Methods results This cross-sectional observational conducted on the cardiology ward...

10.3389/fnut.2023.1178134 article EN cc-by Frontiers in Nutrition 2023-12-22
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