New Articles from Annals of Behavioral Medicine and Translational Behavioral Medicine

SBM's two journals, Annals of Behavioral Medicine and Translational Behavioral Medicine: Practice, Policy, Research (TBM), continuously publish online articles, many of which become available before issues are printed. Two recently published Annals and TBM articles are listed below.

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Translational Behavioral Medicine

Editor's Choice

Barriers and facilitators to implementing Food is Medicine programs: Evidence from 21 food bank–healthcare partnerships

Bailey Houghtaling, Eliza Short, Christopher R Long, Elizabeth T Anderson Steeves, Maryan Isack, Laura Flournoy, Nicole Cawrse, Elise August, Wm Thomas Summerfelt, Eric Calloway

Lay Summary

Food is Medicine (FIM) programs identify people experiencing food insecurity and diet-related chronic disease and connect them with nutritious foods to improve their health. Healthcare organizations and food banks have the potential to create strong partnerships to deliver FIM programs nationwide. This study examined challenges and opportunities to FIM program implementation among food banks and their healthcare partners. The research team conducted and analyzed interviews with 21 diverse grantees of a Food as Medicine 3.0 initiative. The results of this research identified that, across diverse FIM programs, the main challenges to food bank–healthcare FIM programs were starting and maintaining healthcare partnerships, tracking accurate information on how the program was being implemented or generating impact, and limited food bank and healthcare staff capacity to dedicate to program implementation. The results also found that several factors facilitated food bank–healthcare partnership FIM programs, including that FIM programs were adaptable, easy to test prior to rolling out, and designed to meet important needs of food bank neighbors. This study highlighted several important considerations for building successful FIM partnerships, including the need to design and test strategies to improve implementation by overcoming challenges to a promising food bank–healthcare FIM program model.

Providing Reminders and Education Prior to lung cancer screening: Feasibility and acceptability of a multilevel approach to address disparities in lung cancer screening

Randi M Williams, Julia Whealan, Anu Sangraula, Kathryn L Taylor, Lucile Adams-Campbell, Kristen E Miller, Katharine Glassmeyer, Peyton Yee, Kaylin Camidge, Kristie Foley, George Luta, Kenneth W Lin, Rachelle Barnes, William F DuBoyce

Lay Summary

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States. African Americans are less likely to be diagnosed early with lung cancer. People who take part in lung cancer screening can lower their chances of dying from lung cancer. Lung cancer screening is recommended for older adults with a history of smoking. However, many African Americans who are eligible for lung screening do not get the test. There are several health system, provider, and patient barriers that stand in the way of people getting the test. This study developed a provider reminder and patient education intervention to promote lung cancer screening. In this pilot study, the provider reminder increased provider referrals for lung cancer screening and the patient education intervention increased patient knowledge about screening. In a future study, we will test the provider reminder and patient education together to increase lung cancer screening among African American patients.

Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Physical activity, weight, and cardiovascular risk factors after lifestyle behavioral weight loss treatment for binge-eating disorder

Sydney Yurkow, PhD, Valentina Ivezaj, PhD, Carlos M Grilo, PhD

Lay Summary

People who are diagnosed with binge-eating disorder are more likely to have overweight/obesity, and are also more likely to be diagnosed with cardiac and metabolic disorders, like heart disease and diabetes. Compared to people who have obesity, people with both binge-eating disorder and obesity have a harder time losing weight and are also physically inactive. In the past, researchers have found that losing weight was related to improvements in cardiac and metabolic measures, but we do not know whether that is due to weight loss itself or something else—like increased movement or improved diet. In this study, we look to see if a behavioral intervention for binge-eating disorder can increase physical activity—so, things like gardening, running, bowling—and if an increase in physical activity is related to improvements in cardiac health (for example, decreased total cholesterol) and metabolic health (for example, decreased glycated hemoglobin A1c). Overall, we found that typically people with binge-eating disorder who completed our intervention did increase their physical activity—and this lasted for a year after treatment, and that these increases in activity were related to weight loss. Increases in activity did not seem to cause improvements in health, but decreases in weight were related to health improvements.

Expectation shapes hunger and craving: placebo effects of verbal suggestion on food-related experiences

Zaineb Al-Awan, Eleni Prinea, Aleksandrina Skvortsova, PhD

Lay Summary

Many people struggle to control their hunger and food cravings, making it hard to manage their weight or maintain healthy eating habits. In this study, we tested if verbal suggestions and expectations about a fake treatment can change hunger and craving.

We tested 3 groups of participants. One group was told that the treatment would make them feel less hungry, the other one was told it would increase their hunger and the third one was told that they received a fake treatment. All groups rated how hungry they were, their amount of cravings for their favorite food and rated pictures of various foods.

Results showed that verbal suggestions changed participants’ expectations, which influenced their hunger and craving. The hunger-increasing group experienced more hunger than the other groups, while the hunger-decreasing group reported less craving, but not less hunger. Thus, not all expected effects were found; food preferences and choices did not change, for example. Overall, the findings suggest that what people expect from a treatment can actually change their hunger and cravings. This could help develop new ways for supporting healthier eating habits, weight management and help people with eating disorders.