The "Healthier Holidays" Risk Reduction Clinic seminar offered participants the opportunity to discover new strategies to combat poor health choices during the holidays, and it gave those who held the seminar an opportunity to gauge the satisfaction of participants. The Quality Improvement survey focused on both the seminar content and the health goals of the participants.
Results of the "Healthier Holidays" post-seminar survey indicate that weight loss is a top health priority area for most of the attendees. Of the attending seminar participants, 93% indicated weight loss as a primary health focus.
This is an interesting result since the drive to decrease weight essentially steers risk reduction. Adipose ("fat") tissue is metabolically reactive and research suggests that it influences the development of chronic disease, such as type 2 diabetes. The measures that effect weight loss, primarily improved diet and exercise, decrease the risk of developing other chronic diseases, such as hypertension, dyslipidemia, osteoporosis, and cardiovascular disease.
Attendees were asked to select all that apply regarding their primary health focus, and the following results were obtained.
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| (Healthier Holidays Quality Improvement Survey, 11/17/11) |
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The seminar attendees were also asked to rate aspects of the seminar, and the following graph indicates those overall results.
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| (Healthier Holidays Quality Improvement Survey, 11/17/11) |
